What I’m hearing now is cicadas. That tells me that we’ll be getting muggy, wet air and occasional dust storms to go with our hot temperatures soon. Oh, the joy.
When living in an apartment, I would hear crickets, only when someone left the from door open to the common entrance. It the allowed them to find their way into the building, Once they got inside, they would move around using the pipes to the heat registers (not on during the warmer months) and they were hard to find and eliminate. Boy were they annoying. They always got noisiest when I was trying to go to sleep.
Insect populations have declined hugely in all parts of the world where multi-decade studies have been carried out. In Germany, over 27 years of annual measurements, flying insect populations decreased by 75% (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185809). Here in central North Carolina, there have been no quantitative studies, but butterflies and moths and night-flying beetles and dragonflies have simply disappeared. And the nighttime drone of insects is nowhere near as loud as just a few years ago. The consequences will be disasterous.
My open front door is letting in some cool air and cricket calls right now, just before 5 am and before the excessive heat expected for the next several days.
My parents were hotel owners, so I grew up mostly downtown. When I was a kid, ravens were pretty much only seen when you got out of the city. What I did hear that I don’t now were nighthawks; camping in a national park a few years ago was the first time I heard one in literally decades.
Concretionist over 4 years ago
Hmm. We don’t get many crickets where we spend the summers, like we used to before we moved. There are plenty of grasshoppers here though. Dunno.
And yeah, when the author decides to explain the pun right there in the comic, it’s pretty forced.
mddshubby2005 over 4 years ago
What I’m hearing now is cicadas. That tells me that we’ll be getting muggy, wet air and occasional dust storms to go with our hot temperatures soon. Oh, the joy.
Gary Fabian over 4 years ago
When living in an apartment, I would hear crickets, only when someone left the from door open to the common entrance. It the allowed them to find their way into the building, Once they got inside, they would move around using the pipes to the heat registers (not on during the warmer months) and they were hard to find and eliminate. Boy were they annoying. They always got noisiest when I was trying to go to sleep.
Markov Da Robot over 4 years ago
That kid has nice glasses/
Whatcouldgowrong over 4 years ago
Insect populations have declined hugely in all parts of the world where multi-decade studies have been carried out. In Germany, over 27 years of annual measurements, flying insect populations decreased by 75% (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185809). Here in central North Carolina, there have been no quantitative studies, but butterflies and moths and night-flying beetles and dragonflies have simply disappeared. And the nighttime drone of insects is nowhere near as loud as just a few years ago. The consequences will be disasterous.
jessegooddog over 4 years ago
My open front door is letting in some cool air and cricket calls right now, just before 5 am and before the excessive heat expected for the next several days.
CeceliaWD Premium Member over 4 years ago
I do not like the unending chirp. But worse is the constant buzz of locusts here every year.
Bill Löhr Premium Member over 4 years ago
But she’s outside now. And i don’t understand his last commment.
childe_of_pan over 4 years ago
My parents were hotel owners, so I grew up mostly downtown. When I was a kid, ravens were pretty much only seen when you got out of the city. What I did hear that I don’t now were nighthawks; camping in a national park a few years ago was the first time I heard one in literally decades.