Random poll about insects

[gummybear]

I was reading the Twitters this weekend and some person was moving away from NJ back to where she was was from and said one of the things she'd miss was the "insect symphony" at night. It has never crossed my mind that every place does not have noisy ass bugs filling the summer night sky. I'd like to know where these insects (or lack thereof) don't make noise. 

Also if you don't have a bug orchestra is it deafening when you go somewhere that has it? I think it would be unsettling for me not to hear bugs when the air is warm. Sometimes they are quiet and then bad things happen (like storms/tornadoes).

[cap]

One of my favorite things about sleeping with the windows open in the summer and fall is listening to the night bugs as I'm falling asleep. It's soothing!

[Patsy Baloney]

Bugs are really living the life. Get to go outside and scream all night without a care in the world.

[al dente]

There's no crickets in Hawaii. You do sometimes hear geckos chirp, and some areas have coqui frogs that are super loud. But for the most part it's pretty quiet at night.
We instead have gigantic flying roaches and centipedes which keep things fun.

[pierogigirl]

Yes. They are noisy during the day, too. We (my family) just call them "hot bugs" (Upstate NY)

Edit - they're cicadas

[bee20]

Not bugs, but the frogs sing spring-fall. They will go quiet for a few seconds then will all start up again. When they go quiet it is disconcerting. Location is PNW.

Because of all the frogs, we don't really have bugs. I do wish we had fireflies, those were cool when I lived back east.

[gummybear]

bee20 we have these squeaky frogs that make a racket in early summer. I never knew what the sound was (it almost sounds man-made) and this year I discovered it was a type of frog.

We have lots of lightning bugs, which is really special. They are kind of dying off even here in the east.

[MixedBerryJam]

I love listening to the bugs and frogs at night. PEEPERS ARE CRAZY LOUD and super tiny. AND LOUD. Sometimes it’s hot enough at night that I need to keep the AC on but most night a bedroom window is open, which also makes it convenient for the cats to hiss at the neighbors’ dog when she’s out there in the early morning.

[thoseareradishes]

gummybear, they are probably peepers. They are so sweet!

I love the bug noise at night. We are in south Jersey and it gets pretty loud.

[Deleted]

Not only do I have an insect symphony, but we had a tree frog invasion this summer and hear them every night as well.

[wanderingback]

No, living in concrete jungles I think cuts down on that.

[mofongo]

HRH Queen Dick I, Orphan

[mrsslocombe]

I hear the occasional cricket in Brooklyn. I actually can't sleep at my parents/in-laws houses because the bugs and birds are so loud.

I will sleep through a 5 alarm fire brigade but cicadas and crickets? Not a chance in the world.

[gummybear]

Aug 29, 2022 11:26:04 GMT -5 wanderingback said:

No, living in concrete jungles I think cuts down on that.

I was wondering this. I lived in the city proper 7 years (4 years in the inner city) and it def wasn't as loud as it is out here in the boonies but I THINK I remember crickets. 

[gummybear]

Aug 29, 2022 11:27:41 GMT -5 mofongo said:

HRH Queen Dick I, Orphan

I actually thought of her when I saw the tweet. I know she was somewhere with loud bugs recently.

[devonpow]

We do not. I’m right outside Boston and it’s fairly urban, but I live in an area with a decent amount or parks and yards. Plenty of chipmunks, rabbits, and turkeys but a quiet insect population.

[brooklyn]

Aug 29, 2022 11:28:29 GMT -5 mrsslocombe said:

I hear the occasional cricket in Brooklyn. I actually can't sleep at my parents/in-laws houses because the bugs and birds are so loud.

I will sleep through a 5 alarm fire brigade but cicadas and crickets? Not a chance in the world.

Same! I can sleep through anything in nyc, but cicadas keep me up on my grandmother’s farm in Wisconsin.

[InBetweenDays]

We live in Seattle in a somewhat urban neighborhood (lots of parks, coyotes, occasional bear, and even a mountain lion once) but virtually no bugs. I grew up in Minnesota so I sometimes miss the sounds of the insects at night, but on the upside we can sit outside at night (or keep our screenless doors open) and not get swarmed by mosquitos or other biting insects.

[ssmjlm]

The frogs are worse than the insects where I live. They are so LOUD!

[eddy]

It is my favorite part of late summer. I feel like the noise just lowers my BP each night. :-)

It is a combo of cicadas, frogs and I am sure other critters.

[Jalapeñomel]

The cicadas in southern Illinois last week are deafening, and we have lots of noisy bugs and frogs here.

[Nonny]

No noisy bugs unless a mosquito gets in the house and starts buzzing around our ears. But we do occasionally get chatty owls. I kind of love the owls.

[RoxMonster]

Yes! Very loud bug and frog symphony here in IL. I love it. Summer is my favorite season and I love the fireflies and all the noise the summer insects make.

A lot of times, I don’t really notice specifically because I’m so used to it. It’s just like white noise to me. But last week we had some super loud cicadas that I took note of.

Also LOVE the hooting of the barred owls that frequent my street.

[lilafowler]

Aug 29, 2022 11:27:41 GMT -5 mofongo said:

HRH Queen Dick I, Orphan

MY FIRST THOUGHT 🤣😂

[lilafowler]

Aug 29, 2022 11:29:55 GMT -5 devonpow said:

We do not. I’m right outside Boston and it’s fairly urban, but I live in an area with a decent amount or parks and yards. Plenty of chipmunks, rabbits, and turkeys but a quiet insect population.

I am also right outside of Boston and tons of crickets and cicadas in Quincy. Along with coyotes and turkeys and rabbits and nips… 🤣

[lilafowler]

I love the insect sounds at night. It’s my favorite part of summer.

[CurlyQ284]

I hear crickets at night and what I think are bats. Its almost like a clicking sound and you can see bats flying around from tree to tree so I assume its the bats yelling at each other from across the yard.

[ksun]

We don't have one really at our house, not regularly. But I'm dog sitting this week and the crickets are glorious. It's cooled down enough to sleep with the windows open and they're right there outside the window. It's a great white noise to fall asleep to.

[HRH Queen Dick I, Orphan]

No thank you.

[Wallflower]

I responded yes, and I do, but I usually have fans going all summer and can't actually hear them.

@sameoldstory, I usually get a brief period when it's still cool enough for open windows but no fans and in that time, the tree frogs chirp it up. But this year, I think we were just dry enough that I never heard them.