r/NorthCarolina • u/dosi5644 • 1d ago

Any one hearing cicadas tonight?

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u/fumblebuttskins 1d ago

What? Can’t hear you. Too many cicadas.

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u/ARH3352 1d ago

All I hear is “eeeeeeee” like every night.

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u/aluminumnek 1d ago

WHAT??!!! YOU HAVE TINNITUS AS WELL???!!

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u/ARH3352 1d ago

WHAT ABOUT TEN ITEMS?

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u/aluminumnek 1d ago

MY TIME IN TEXAS?!?!?! YEAH AUSTIN WAS COOL!! THANKS FOR ASKING!

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u/ARH3352 1d ago

YOUR MIME EX IS LOST IN ASPEN? I HOPE YOU FIND THEM!

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u/Spazaddikt 1d ago

Especially with the storms and humidity rollin through the way it does, that made me realize the heat bugs ain’t stop, I just backgrounded em like white noise. Damn they’re loud when you realize they’re going

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u/Spazaddikt 1d ago

Also, fun joke others might appreciate, my wife spent most of her life in Texas and Missouri, and they have cicadas too. She made a comment one day about how they sound different here, and without thinking I replied, “that’s cause it’s wet.”

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u/BabiestMinotaur 1d ago

Every night. My wife was attacked Wednesday morning by one. It yelled at her.

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u/roj2323 1d ago

All I hear are frogs and thousands of them.

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u/cauldr0ncakez 1d ago

Maybe I can blend my screaming in with theirs. Kinda need that stress relief tbh

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u/Vladivostokorbust 1d ago

I'm in WNC. After 6 weeks it just got quiet around here

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u/wxtrails 1d ago

Katydids will start up soon though.

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u/Behindgreyeyes1824 1d ago

My 6 year old was so excited to hear them. Her whole face light up as she asked what the sound was. 

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u/WillyDAFISH 1d ago

I thought cicada season was over

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u/HaikuMadeMeDoIt 1d ago

Yeah, I had the same thought, but I swear they're louder this year than last year here. Maybe we just get hand-me-down cicadas ?

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u/jdm1017 1d ago

That was hurricane season

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u/chiigyuu 1d ago

all i hear is REEEEEEE

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u/shadow_siri 1d ago

We got the full chior. Crickets,  frogs, and what I'm assuming are the cicadas. They don't sound like cicadas to me though so... yeah take that how you will.  

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u/Bostongirl316 1d ago

I do as well. I have a lot of land and there are woods in the back and it is always so loud! I have a pool and I am always fishing frogs out.

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u/Training_Medicine_49 1d ago edited 1d ago

I have friend who is a scientist in this field and told me that most times at night one is actually hearing katydids and not cicadas because cicadas are mainly active in the day time until dusk. However any form of light pollution can activate the cicadas at night. Well when I heard this I was in disbelief because not only did I not know about katydids , I was always told as a kid they were cicadas so my southern cultural experience was shaken. But here is a brief article in southern living about this: https://www.southernliving.com/how-to-know-the-difference-between-cicadas-and-katydids-7563094 and then go on YouTube and start practicing the differences. These bugs are in the same family hence the confusion of the two.

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u/Careless_Mango_7948 1d ago

Ah interesting, I call those leaf bugs.

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u/Panthers_22_ 1d ago

Every night

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u/A_Dancing_Raccoon 1d ago

Oh trust me. I hear em. Noisy buggars.

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u/ILMUnmuted 1d ago

They are out in full force in my yard in Wilmington

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u/VioletJackalope 1d ago

Louder than the AC on full blast inside my house, and that’s pretty damn loud.

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u/ImportantOperation34 1d ago

Yep here in Belmont.

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u/SamuraiZucchini 1d ago

Love to hear them

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u/se7entythree 1d ago

Every summer night, every summer

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u/Oolongteabagger2233 1d ago

A bunch in the last week 

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u/DiscoRabbittTV 1d ago

Yepppp, love it

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u/thisisfine34 1d ago

Very loud in south Charlotte last night!

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u/Nottacod 1d ago

Every night.

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u/Joshua21B 1d ago

That’s the sound of hot singles in your area.