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Do you guys hear them? That buzzing?
I'm in lower Hawaiian beaches and over the last month suddenly there's something other and more terrible than the frogs. {Who I can tune out or enjoy.}
My Gawd this is terrible.
Someone tell me its something else, that goes away....
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Sound like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqys8lKsu4s
Yeah, that sucks. I much prefer Coquis to that.
Coquis would eat Cicadas given the chance right?
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Somewhat...But less of an empty plastic bottle sound. A tiny tad more deep whine.
Which is the last hope I'm hoping on. The internet seems to say that they don't like it here in hawaii. Gosh how I hope that is true.
Damn Damn invasives, whatever this actually is.
Thanks for responding! I hope you never get em. It's way worse than coqui which can sound nice if there arent too many.
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Are you sure it isn't helicopters? ;P
Birds of Puna...
I've seen cicadas here, though not the huge, beastly ones like AZ gets. They're a lot smaller, only about 1/2". If it is cicadas, then they are seasonal. And actually pretty phenomenal little critters. They wriggle around under the ground for seven years in complete darkness, then coccoon, transform completely and pop out of the ground, climbing and splitting and crawling out of their shell and climbing some more... once they transform they don't eat ever again. Just sing and mate. The ones in AZ were more like 3" long x 1" wide, pistachio green and their faces looked like the grill of an old Chevy.
If it is cicadas, they'll go away soon and in the meantime, you'll get used to the sound in no time. Just be thankful they aren't those big ones in AZ or Australia. Could also be crickets, grasshoppers or ...???
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Haha, no not heles, these are in the grass and a sneaky one is in the ti right under our kitchen window.
Ahh so we do have em on island. Interesting.
Thats what I figured if these are cicadas, maybe this year is the 7th year, or the 8th, or triggered by the droughts, and if so and if its just a flush of them then awesome, I can totally hang with that. As long as its not a new invasive infestation.
I gotta say though the drone is killer. Its such a relief when it stops.
Thanks for your response
Merry Christmas!
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I just heard it tonight - at first I thought who is jack hammering this late at night.
Assumed it was the bull frogs (Toads?) in the nearby ponds. But it is much louder than the coquis.
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Will I be in danger when I come at the end of January? LOL!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh4DFqLdgZs
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In Baltimore we had a brood of 13 year cicadas that was ENORMOUS! You could see kids on their way to school covering their heads to dodge the large critters. Every deciduous tree branch tip for hundreds of miles around died after the cicadas bored into them to lay eggs. Every area of the ground that contained a tree 13 years before was covered with little holes during the week the cicadas emerged. I found the whole thing fascinating!
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Hotinhawaii, it is pretty fascinating, I agree. And LOUD. Up to 120db some of them! Sometimes Locusts are considered to be cicadas, but in my mind they're very different. I've never heard of cicadas eating leaves, maybe the die back you're describing was caused by their laying eggs in the bark of the tree? Hmmm. But there's a huge variance in cicadas worldwide. Various life spans, sizes, noises, colors, etc.
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