Y'all what is making this crazy noise? Greenway near I-10 and 1604.
Posted Jul 5, 2022, 7:30 PM UTC
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LOL you must be new here? Wait until you find their empty husks
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I went out with a woman that would paint the husks with her grandkids. LOL. Actually looked pretty cool.
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Username checks out
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Maybe it’s just my anecdotal perception but I don’t think too many younger folks have ever spent all day outside bored out of their mind like we did every weekend as kids.
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…and it shows
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Great snacks when youre foraging
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Excuse me, what?
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Crunchy little treasures
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The sound of summer.. cicadas
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HA, this should probably be pinned to the FAQs...
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Literally gets asked every single year
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La Llorona. RUN!!
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Nah, she's looking for kids who are conveniently out after the street lights have come on.
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Its the sound of concrete boiling
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Chicharras
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This is the correct answer.
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Chicharras❤️❤️❤️
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In San Antonio this is the absolute correct answer.🏆
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Cicadas.
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Cicadas. The sounds of Texas summers.
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I love that sound. Sounds like home. Sounds like summer. It just makes you feel warm.
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I mean as much as bugs can make one feel warm…
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Could have left the Texas off there, they range a pretty huge swath of the non-desert areas east of the Rockies.
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There’s a few bits of wisdom that I regularly share with people. One of them is: if you hear a strange sound coming from the woods- No you didn’t.
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Just that time of the year when the trees scream
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call to Entmoot
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Tree rattlesnakes. Don’t go near em. Just keep driving till you don’t hear them anymore. Leave now, your life depends on it.
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😂😂
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Technically any rattlesnake could be a tree rattlesnake. 😉
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👽👽👽
(Just kidding. It’s cicadas.)
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Cicada
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I’m not saying it was aliens… but it was aliens.
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Cicadas trying to get laid. Annoying little assholes, but it's the sound of summer!! Brood X was last year supposedly, but I didn't hear an increase in noise. It happens every 17 years!
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when I was a virgin that's what I sounded like trying to get laid too
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Same... Same here
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It happens every year. It’s just that the next of kin of the ones you hear don’t come out for 17 years. But it happens every year.
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Oh yes, I've lived in Texas my whole 29 years, I'm very aware of it happening every year. However there's a phenomenon called a brood year where they're particularly loud.
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...which is a phenomenon that seems limited to the east coast - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brood_X#2021_emergence
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Those are cicadas harmonizing
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Cicadas. Or as a lot of people incorrectly call them "locusts".
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Cicada
lol didn't even need to play the video to know what sound they're talking about
I've heard this sound when walking on those trials, but I never really knew what it was.
I had my suspicions when I first read the header/title but delayed confirmation while watching a firework mishap video or 2... happy to have been correct but a little disappoint it wasn't something more interesting
I grew up in Tennessee all my life up until I moved here at the start of pandemic, the cicadas here sound categorically different. The ones here are SOO high pitched compared to the ones in Tennessee I thought they were a different species of insect, which maybe it’s a different type of cicada here. Out there they’re much lower and a hard buzzing sound which would get just as loud as this.
It's a different type. There are multiple species of cicada in Texas: some whistle, some buzz, and some do both. I also only heard the buzzing kind before moving down here from the Midwest.
Because here they are drunk on Tequila and singing Mariachi songs
Chiggers? Lord I’m getting old
No, chiggers are the tiny white/red mite type ones that bite.
Well I never said I was the sharpest tool in the shed 🫠
Bite? And here I thought they laid eggs and digestive enzymes in you so the eggs have food after they hatch.
I didn't wanna say the part about laying eggs in you and be wrong cuz I wasn't sure if that part was true or just something kids say.
Right on. I got two on my ankle and it swelled up to double in size. And hurt. No kidding.
We’re not allowed to call them chiggers anymore
They said chiggas was cool though. Terrible joke and I'll see myself out