A cicada with red-orange wings and legs, red eyes, and a black carapace. It is on the side of a tree with gray bark.

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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 23:17:20 UTC Robert McNees

   No cicadas here yet, so we drove out to the suburbs where they have taken over.

   They were everywhere. The trees in the park were covered in cicadas.

   Standing under a big tree full of them, my sound meter peaked at 93 dB — as loud as a lawn mower!