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    cicadas make as much noise as motorcycles

    https://www.noisyplanet.nidcd.nih.go...torcycle-noise

    it was all silent here ten minutes ago but the cicadas have started up again, was googling to find out what triggers them off and when the fuckers sleep....

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    Shit the buggers are going crazy up on the hills. Its all Sex Sex Sex with that lot.
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    I have tinitus. Cicadas all year round for me!
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    It's the light that sets them off. They're a go at dawn and shut down after twilight. They're driving me crazy here too, we get a lot of them where I live but this year has been especially noisy. Hopefully the southerly front will slow them down for a day or two.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OddDuck View Post
    It's the light that sets them off. They're a go at dawn and shut down after twilight. They're driving me crazy here too, we get a lot of them where I live but this year has been especially noisy. Hopefully the southerly front will slow them down for a day or two.
    i wondered that, the other night they had a huge full moon and it started them off when it appeare at our house at midnight

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    I'm sitting at a playground and my son is covering his ears at the start. Little fukers
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    Quote Originally Posted by Laava View Post
    I have tinitus. Cicadas all year round for me!
    No how you feel, same thing here !!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by OddDuck View Post
    It's the light that sets them off. They're a go at dawn and shut down after twilight. They're driving me crazy here too, we get a lot of them where I live but this year has been especially noisy. Hopefully the southerly front will slow them down for a day or two.
    They start well before dawn here.
    We have had them bad for months here, Although they have been no where near as bad thr last few weeks as its colled down a little.
    My parents have Kiwifruit they love those.
    Its only seem to be certain trees they congregate at.
    Likely a little Bug spray on the trees would fix the issues up.
    https://www.mitre10.co.nz/shop/kiwic...litre/p/174183
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    Why do they like kiwifruit? They dont eat. Just breed and die,

    Wifey tells me ours are 7 year cycle .
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    Quote Originally Posted by F5 Dave View Post
    Why do they like kiwifruit? They dont eat. Just breed and die,

    Wifey tells me ours are 7 year cycle .
    No idea, but they love the patch their, Always have, maybe they breed the same place year in year out, i have no idea.
    But when i go on a walk past the golf course its the exact same trees every time they are in in the native reserve as well (not kiwifruit there clearly)
    We have the whistling frogs at night as well.
    I am sraying the Silver birch trees at my place that they were all in here next year just to see what happens.
    I google ihow loud they were it said up to 120Db and they bloody sound it.
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    Wifey has just gone whistling tree frog crazy but they are pretty quiet
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    Quote Originally Posted by F5 Dave View Post
    Wifey has just gone whistling tree frog crazy but they are pretty quiet
    There are a little small for stir Fry.
    I dont mind them, they are real hard to find if you shine a torch at them they stand still and stop whistling
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    its 10 20 pm 17 deg outside and they have just this minute stopped

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    My dog likes eating the shells of the larvae that remain on the tree trunks.Must be like chippies to him, but he is a fucking idiot after all.
    it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
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    Yeah isint mating call. Its there wings. I remember as a kid.watching tv on ate old black white tv, and them flying in through window, well like two of them. Had pick up by wings. Didint enjoy that much. We lived on eastern foot hills hutt Valley.
    Had bush reserve at back house.
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