10-20-2008, 08:26 PM
A couple of us have already stated how at first exposure we didn't think much of the noise, but when we got in the right conditions, or wrong conditions depending on your perspective, we changed our assesment to "Wow! That's really loud!" I'm kind of a pragmatic, skeptical guy. At first I thought about how some people will complain about anything and are never satisfied. I tell you that I was honestly shocked at how loud the little bastards can be when they occur in significant numbers and they are near enough to your house. The only thing you can really do is to cut down all the vegetation near your house.
Life goes on, no one will die from this, and I have spoke to people who have gotten so used to the noise that those they speak to on the phone ask them "what's that noise?" and they have to think about it, but if you moved somewhere or grew up somewhere and cherished the silence at night, and now the only advice the experts can give you is to clearcut your entire property, then yes you have lost something of great value.
I live in fear that along with coqui frogs and bee mites we will someday get brown tree snakes from guam. That will be the end of Hawaii as we know it. In their natural habitat the population of these snakes is limited in part by the lack of small prey for juvenile snakes. Combine the remarkable reproductive capacity of the brown tree snake with the equally remarkable population density of coqui frogs and you get the makngs of a truly horrific environmental disaster.
It's not just about the noise they make. It is also about the insects they eat that are part of the native food chain and the rats, mongooses, and heaven forbid brown tree snakes that they may feed.
I have nothing per se against snakes. Little garter snakes would be kind of nice. Nothing about brown tree snakes is nice.
Life goes on, no one will die from this, and I have spoke to people who have gotten so used to the noise that those they speak to on the phone ask them "what's that noise?" and they have to think about it, but if you moved somewhere or grew up somewhere and cherished the silence at night, and now the only advice the experts can give you is to clearcut your entire property, then yes you have lost something of great value.
I live in fear that along with coqui frogs and bee mites we will someday get brown tree snakes from guam. That will be the end of Hawaii as we know it. In their natural habitat the population of these snakes is limited in part by the lack of small prey for juvenile snakes. Combine the remarkable reproductive capacity of the brown tree snake with the equally remarkable population density of coqui frogs and you get the makngs of a truly horrific environmental disaster.
It's not just about the noise they make. It is also about the insects they eat that are part of the native food chain and the rats, mongooses, and heaven forbid brown tree snakes that they may feed.
I have nothing per se against snakes. Little garter snakes would be kind of nice. Nothing about brown tree snakes is nice.