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Thread ID: 143495 2017-01-26 22:48:00 Where are the cicadas and crickets? Roscoe (6288) PC World Chat
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1431127 2017-01-26 22:48:00 It's been very quiet in both the daytime and night as we have not heard the cicadas or crickets and I'm wondering why as we have usually heard them start up by now. Is it not warm enough? Everyone is saying that we're not having much of a summer. Is that the reason? Roscoe (6288)
1431128 2017-01-26 23:10:00 I have the sound of cicadas permanently in my ears so I do not miss them. Crickets start sometime February from memory. Little blighters will no doubt be brought in by the cats. Bryan (147)
1431129 2017-01-26 23:33:00 Not many around Tauranga & surrounds ,find Tui's target the ones that are out to feed their young

They have a 3/5 year nymph stage here,cant remember what they were like 3/5 years ago
Lawrence (2987)
1431130 2017-01-26 23:53:00 Not as many yet, but my cats have been munching through them.
They don't bring them in, just catch and eat them immediately.

Cat version of peanuts apparently.....
pctek (84)
1431131 2017-01-27 00:20:00 www.nzherald.co.nz

That was 2015 - but the gist of it is most probably the same
bevy121 (117)
1431132 2017-01-27 00:29:00 I have the sound of cicadas permanently in my ears so I do not miss them. Crickets start sometime February from memory. Little blighters will no doubt be brought in by the cats.

Yeah, me too.
Driftwood (5551)
1431133 2017-01-27 02:26:00 I have the sound of cicadas permanently in my ears so I do not miss them. So do I, but I would give anything to get rid of them.!! Pato (2463)
1431134 2017-01-27 02:43:00 Tinnitus Driftwood (5551)
1431135 2017-01-27 03:36:00 So do I, but I would give anything to get rid of them.!!

What was that you said? Can't hear for all the whistling :(

Ken
kenj (9738)
1431136 2017-01-27 05:10:00 I can hear some out the window right now. According to mister google they have a 5 or 6 year life cycle and only exist as adults for a few weeks at the end of it so if there aren't many around it's because they had a bad season 5 or 6 years ago not because of the weather this year. I think to really hear them you need to go out into the bush or a wooded area but there are definitely some around here in the city. dugimodo (138)
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