Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/03

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Noisy Insect (image)
From: al.crouch at earthlink.net (Al Crouch)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 19:39:46 -0500

All:

We have them in Texas, too.   I was lucky enough to find one emerging from
its shell one night on the outside wall of my garage.   Had seen a lot of
shells before, but not the process.

http://tinyurl.com/n87c27

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Al+Crouch/free+at+last.jpg.html

:Al Crouch






> [Original Message]
> From: Jefffery Smith <jsmith342 at gmail.com>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: 9/3/2009 6:39:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Noisy Insect
>
> If they are bad this year, they will be bad 17 years from now too. :-)
>
> On Sep 3, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>
> > Hi Jeffery,
> >
> > Thanks for the technical details. As I mentioned before, with my  
> > high frequency hearing loss from years of exposure to noisy  
> > compressor plant equipment, they don't bother me too much unless I  
> > go outside with my hearing aid in place. Then, the noise is very  
> > noticeable.
> >
> > Jim Nichols
> > Tullahoma, TN USA
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jefffery Smith"
<jsmith342 at gmail.com 
> > >
> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 6:00 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Noisy Insect
> >
> >
> >> Their method of making that noise is  interesting. They have a  
> >> drum- head like diaphragm on either side of the body with 4 folds  
> >> in it.  Pulling on the diaphragm (with a muscle) causes 4  
> >> consecutive  "banging" noises, like squeezing an empty plastic  
> >> water bottle. They  alternate doing the left and right side  
> >> diaphragms, and that means two  muscle contractions cause 8 loud  
> >> banging noises. In the oaks down here  in the Garden District, it  
> >> sounds like people with chain saws.
> >>
> >> By the way, these are the bugs whose nymph stage lasts 17 years.  
> >> After  17 years, the nymph crawls up the side of a tree, and later  
> >> hatches  out of a skin to become an adult cicada. The "shells" that  
> >> someone  mentioned is the cast-off nymph shell.
> >>
> >> Jeffery
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sep 3, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> >>
> >>> I came across this noisy insect on my way to the mail box this   
> >>> morning. I have not yet established his identity. Can anyone help   
> >>> identify this fellow?  I should have stopped down further, but he   
> >>> was not cooperative.
> >>>
> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Noisy+Insect.jpg.html
> >>>
> >>> Feedback appreciated.
> >>>
> >>> Jim Nichols
> >>> Tullahoma, TN USA
> >>>
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