It is spring peepers that topcat is hearing.

Yes it is, but you won’t start hearing cicadas for several more months. It’ll peak in May and June. We have annual cicadas every year. The huge 13 and 17 year broods are hatching this year and emerging together in the Midwest. That hasn’t happened in a couple hundred years.

I’m hearing a lot of frogs, katydids and crickets but no cicadas. They’re not even above ground yet and won’t be for a while

Yeah spring peepers are ROARING here.

I think the 17 year cicada cycle runs every year according to some sites.

No. They don't hatch until summer. This year will see two specific brood hatches, overlapping in some areas, in a rare double hatch occurence.

But they're not out in January. If they are then we have serious climate issues. Peeper frogs are out, though.

i’m reading this while getting the invoice ready to leave in a customers door and there’s a lake in either sides of his house. there are spring peepers at both ponds singing right now. saturday afternoon next to a creek/swampy area in greene co they were deafening

It's not just you. I get pitch changes as well, and years ago before my tinnitus I would hear little tone changes. From a dull to high pitch, or vice versa.

Told my doc about it at the time and he said that wasn't likely to happen. I don't see that doc anymore. Friend of mine in Kentucky has the same issue, told his doc, and was told the same. I guess because "tone changes in the inner ear" aren't in the AMA instructo-matic guide, they think it's a myth.

It's aggravating but I just deal with it. Sounds like buzzing. Can't be cured, since the cilia in the inner ear is damaged. Ah, to be young again and smarter about protecting my hearing.

Turkeys gonna feast !

And copperheads

So those insect shells you find on pine trees aren’t locusts? They are cicadas? We always called them locusts.

Yes those shells are from cicadas. Locusts are a type of grasshopper.

Some people call them dry flies.