what's buzzing in the trees?

[Anonymous Poster]

what\'s buzzing in the trees?

Just like the "night sounds" of my other post I just made, all my life I've heard this "buzzing" sound coming from trees in the summer. If I try to get close and see what it is, it stops. This goes on all day either in the country on in the city. For example, right outside the building where I work I can hear them buzzing.

 

[cowboydoc]

Re: what\'s buzzing in the trees?

I think what you are talking about are locusts. They are big bugs that look ugle and make alot of noise. Any in the midwest that's what they are.

 

[Harv]

Re: what\'s buzzing in the trees?

Out west here, I might guess you were talking about the cicadae. Very loud, very distinct.

 

[Bird]

Re: what\'s buzzing in the trees?

Danny, I think Cowboydoc was a country boy like me/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif and we grew up calling them "locusts" although the dictionary defines "locust" as a type of grasshopper and our "locusts" are actually called "cicadas". My old dictionary even has a picture of one; maybe yours does, too. Or you can do a web search on "cicada" and find a lot of information including this site http://ipm-www.ncsu.edu/insect_notes/Ornamentals_and_Turf/not17.html

Bird

 

[Bird]

Re: what\'s buzzing in the trees?

Harv, I guess you type faster than me./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Bird

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Re: what\'s buzzing in the trees?

Sorry, I forgot to tell you where I live. I'm in southern Indiana. So, I'm surprised to hear that grasshoppers get into the trees. I thought, from their name, they were only in the grass.

 

[Bird]

Re: what\'s buzzing in the trees?

Danny, I don't think what you have been hearing was grasshoppers, but we definitely have both grasshoppers and cicadas in the trees around here. The grasshoppers will literally eat all the leaves off some shrubs or small trees at times.

Bird

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Re: what\'s buzzing in the trees?

I agree, probably locust although I've heard people call them "Kateydids" (phonic spelling). Not sure they're the same thing though.

Wise Guy

 

[glennmac]

Re: what\'s buzzing in the trees?

Always called them cicadas here in the northeast. When I hear them I always know its going to be a hot day. They dont seem to sing on cool summer days.

 

[cowboydoc]

Re: what\'s buzzing in the trees?

You are right Bird that's what I always called them because that's what my Grandpa said they were. I had wondered the same thing about the locust but never looked into it. Now I know! Thanks for the correction on what they really are.