Creatures of the night

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Author Message   AZ Citizen Username: Azaltsman Post Number: 179 Registered: 1-2003 Posted on Monday, August 18, 2003 - 12:21 am:        Ok, as an NYC transplant, I NEED to know what those creatures are that make all the interesting noises at night. I was used to hearing traffic. Now it's bugs...and I can't even see them. And how the heck can they go on making all that noise non-stop, anyway?   optimyst Citizen Username: Optimyst Post Number: 55 Registered: 6-2001 Posted on Monday, August 18, 2003 - 12:37 am:        Probably cicadas .... They are rather large and fly. You will see their brown outer shell sometimes on trees, left behind.   Brett Citizen Username: Bmalibashksa Post Number: 61 Registered: 7-2003 Posted on Monday, August 18, 2003 - 8:24 am:        When I was a kid we used to be able to tell how hot it was by timing there noise or something like that. I'm trying to find it on the internet now.   marken Citizen Username: Marken Post Number: 37 Registered: 4-2003 Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 9:11 am:        It could be this guy: http://www.enature.com/fieldguide/showSpeciesSH.asp?curGroupID=4&shapeID=1014&cu rPageNum=25&recnum=IS0034 ... or more accurately, thousands of these guys.