Does one hear cicadas singing in the trees in states north of the Mason-Dixon line?

[raccoon]

In my state, on hot days, you hear them a lot. Like today.

[cwydro]

1. I sure hear them here in NC.

In the city where my mother lives.

And in the country where I spend most of my time.

It's a beautiful sound.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Yes, even in Minnesota.

I hear them now.

[DawgHouse]

3. My husband is from Central NY State

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He moved to Orlando in 1997. I originally from Arkansas so I know all about cicadas. I'm accustomed to their summer time sound, so much that I rarely notice them anymore.

Years ago, he came in from outside and said, "Come here, come listen." He was acting weird... like he was worried. I went out to the front yard with him and stood for a few minutes.

He said, "Do you hear that?
Me: "What? No. I don't hear anything."
Him: "YOU DON'T HEAR ANYTHING?"
Me: "No. What are you talking about?" Pause.... "You mean the cicadas? That loud noise you hear is cicadas."
Him: "ARE YOU SURE?"

Ha! Ha! Ha!

Later I went over to the sweet gum tree out front and showed him a cicada skin on the tree.

I still laugh about it.

[A Simple Game]

5. I'm from Northern New York and we have them.

I didn't have time to read very much but this site says they are in the eastern United States and Canada.

http://www.insectsingers.com/100th_meridian_cicadas/

You could probably find a site with a better map.

[DawgHouse]

10. That's a cool site! Thanks for the link.

[A Simple Game]

12. You're very welcome, and thank you for the thank you.

I never knew there were so many varieties.

I still haven't heard one this summer, but unless it is a year when they are very prolific may just not be noticing them.

[DawgHouse]

14. I didn't know there were that many different ones, either.

Once I started listening, I realized that I've heard MANY of them.

The most familiar one (and favorite sound) to me is Neotibicen pruinosus (Say, 1925)

[lastlib]

6. My BIL, born & raised a New York City boy....

married to my sister, a long-time Missouri farm girl, and they live in suburban Baltimore. One day he comes in all excited to tell Sis he'd caught a giNORmous ferocious RAT in a trash can in the garage, and it was hissing at him, baring its teeth, and just rasing Cain. She went out there with him, raised the lid off the trash can, and started to laugh, and I mean rolling-on-the-floor laughing! He had caught a 'possum! Twenty five years later, she still jokes about it!

[DawgHouse]

11. Ha ha!

[femmocrat]

4. Yes, but they aren't out yet in western PA.

They will show up eventually! I don't think this will be a big year for them though.

http://www.cicadas.info

[GoneOffShore]

7. Love that sound.

We get them in Philadelphia sometimes.

But, the best place to hear them is in Provence, in high summer, on a terrace, looking at the sea, drinking rosé and eating olives.

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[mackerel]

8. I don't think we have them in Cali. I've heard crickets though.

[cyberswede]

9. We have them in Iowa...

When I was a kid, they could get so loud that we'd have to shut the windows in order to hear the teevee.

[TexasBushwhacker]

13. I have tinnitus. I hear them 24/7

We found a dead one and they're pretty fascinating. The males abdomen is pretty hollow and acts as a resonator.

[Paladin]

15. They are LOUD in my part of Texas, this year.

Those of you being spared the noise, thank your lucky stars......

[In_The_Wind]

16. We have Cicadas in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York.

[lindysalsagal]

17. I remember one at a NJ funeral once

But they're not the norm.

[seveneyes]

18. Speaking as a fortunate listener ...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

19. They evidently don't have them in the Pacific Northwest

I took a group of students (all from Oregon or Washington) to Japan one August (I was escorting them to their study abroad location), and at breakfast after the first night, they asked "What was that electrical buzzing last night?"
"Those were the cicadas," I said.
"Ci...ca...da?" one of them repeated. "What's that in English?"

[Joe Shlabotnik]

20. One of my favorite sounds of summer,

up here in Ontario, Canada.