what's buzzing in the trees?

[Anonymous Poster]

Re: what\'s buzzing in the trees?

I looked up "cicadas" in the dictionary, here's what Noah Webster has to say:

cicad or tree cricket; any one of many species of insects, genus Cicada, living on trees or shrubs, etc and having a charactistically sharp chirp produced by vibrating a tightly stretched membrane beneath the abdomen. The best known species is the American species Cicada septendecim or seventeen year locust.

PitbullMidwest

 

[Bird]

Re: what\'s buzzing in the trees?

Wise Guy, the cicada (or as we always called 'em, locusts) and the katydid are two different things, but I'm not at all sure I'd know the difference in the sound they make; just know the difference when I see them.

Bird

 

[ERNIEB]

Re: what\'s buzzing in the trees?

We also call cicada by the name locust. Spanish speaking people call them chicharra (chee-cha-roll them r's-ah).
You know if you have them, because at some point they shed their skins. They leave these attached to trees, fences, or just about anything that doesn't move.

Ernie

 

[glennmac]

Re: what\'s buzzing in the trees?

Here is the cicada mania site:

http://www.dancentury.com/cicada/cicadalinks.html

 

[glennmac]

Re: what\'s buzzing in the trees?

Note that in the cicada mania site, they make clear that cicadas are NOT locusts. See the FAQs, for example.

 

[PBMAX]

Re: what\'s buzzing in the trees?

Bird the way I know a Cadi-did is because thats what the SAY.....If you listen that sound like they are saying k-d-did....It here in Bama they are usualy a brite leafy green and as you say can do some damage...Locast to me are nothing but oversized brownish grass hopppers.That Buzzing sound we get here is from a very larg, very ugly bug.looks like a huge flying beetle(seen them almost 2"in length) with clearish wings they have a way of popping their body joinyt that makes a loud cliking sound if you pick one up.So we call them clickers....wife knows the real name will ask her...

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[Bird]

Re: what\'s buzzing in the trees?

<font color=blue>usualy a brite leafy green</font color=blue>

Yep, the katydid looks much like a green humpback grasshopper.

And your "clickers" are cicada.

I guess I first learned the difference between what we called locusts and the cicada when someone many years ago told me that Moses' locusts weren't what we called locusts.

Bird