Looks like the east coast is going to have a noisy summer with the arrival of Brood II. According to this NPR article, "They [cicadas] will arrive in such numbers that people from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered roughly 600-to-1." Thank god they are gentle beasts.
The cicada is one of my absolute favorite bugs, and there is one tree near where I work that hums with them in the summer, but nothing like in the south or east coast. The sound brings me right back to balmy nights as a kid.
Audio clips (and more) can be found at Cicada Mania.
Image above by Ohara Koson (1930), from the hanga gallery.
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