Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Cicadas

Before the Cicadas are done, I have to figure out a way to get a decent recording of the noise. It really and truly sounds like a flying saucer from HG Wells War of the Worlds is going to come over the tree line from the horizon. In the immediate vacinity it sounds like thousands of crickets screaming in pain.

Pediatrician Warns Parents About Cicadas

"We had a stab wound to the arm from a kid who was trying to kill a cicada on the arm of another child but unfortunately he was using a knife," ...
...a boy trying to swat a cicada out of the air with a baseball bat instead hit his friend in the nose...