Those Darn Locusts
It seems that Kansas City’s locust population is louder than in past years. I don’t recall the need to shout to be heard over the insect’s shrill white noise. The decibel level under mature maple trees is deafening. This shaky twelve-second video I shot in my yard last night fails to convey the locust’s unrelenting volume, but it should serve to give outsiders an audio snapshot of life on a muggy August evening in Kansas City.
posted by Happy In Bag @ 12:39 PM
3 Comments:
At 10:10 AM,
FletcherDodge said…
Just to be clear and perfectly precise, the sound is made by cicadas, not locusts. But thanks for posting the audio sample, I just linked to it.
At 10:16 AM,
Happy In Bag said…
Emaw's right- I got it all wrong. Check out Emaw's fun facts.
At 11:21 PM,
bgo said…
if i had a video camera i'd shoot footage of the cicada killers out in our front yard. awesome to watch them and truth be told makes mowing the lawn not much fun.
m&s
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