Here in SW Ontario, cicadas (aka Magicicadas in NE USA) are currently emerging from the ground, climbing trees, shedding their skin and singing out their siren-like mating call at a sound level of 110 - 120 decibels. Maybe you've heard.
["A Magicicada upon an apricot leaf in my
front yard." More details at CBC website]
I started hearing a loud ringing in my ears last week. When I popped my head out the shop door I couldn't tell from which direction the sound came but I knew it was a cicada's mating call. And on Saturday morning I found evidence that cicada eggs had been deposited in the soil of my front yard 13 or 17 years ago. I carefully collected nine empty cicadas shells from a front yard tree but didn't spot an adult ready to sing.
["A cicada exoskeleton on the trunk of the apricot tree"]
The large insects - after shedding their exoskeleton - had flown the coop.
["Bugs are coming, bugs are coming. Then going!"]
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