Albino Locust/Cicada?

Oneofsix said:
Our yard is about 50/50, maybe 60/40 shaded/sunny. We usually have a lot of cicadas.
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Odd maybe they will come out in the next couple of days. Seems more and more are out every day in Chatham
 
The weirdos of Durham were calling 911 all last week reporting "unidentified alien like noises " coming from the atmosphere. The police were actually driving around trying to pinpoint the noise until one of them stopped to ask me if I was hearing the same thing he was hearing and if I knew what it was.

Yesterday I heard a Durham 911 call over the radio. Dispatch said the resident called about "extraterrestrial alien like noises" a responding officer asked, "did the caller really say extraterrestrial alien noises?"

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Quieter today with the rain, but the prior two days, here in the sticks of central NC, they have been the loudest game in town. Very impressed. Friend living about 10 miles away in a small town hears nothing tho.

Here's a neat searchable map

cicadas.uconn.edu

Brood XIX | Periodical Cicada Information Pages

The Great Southern Brood Brood XIX is arguably the largest (by geographic extent) of all periodical cicada broods, with records along the east coast from Ma ...
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And for any of you who are wondering what you are listening for, Weds morning was the first that I heard them. It was very faint that day, and at first I thought it was farm equipment off in the distance. Thursday it was much louder and Friday it was unmistakably something out of the ordinary.

Out here in the sticks, I have a pasture on one side of me, beside that a young growth stand of pine that very recently was part of a controlled burn, and then mature, mixed pine/hardwood forest with a small creek running through it. The racket is definitely concentrated in the wooded area, tho in the burned area they are very active flying around. I remember hearing a previous brood a number of years ago, but I really don't remember it sounding quite like this, so I am attaching an audio file from Thursday morning if anyone wants to know what to listen for.

Hmmmm, ok so I was going to upload a file, but I dunno how to change a .amr file to something that this site will support.

So if anyone is really curious, PM me and I'll send ya a link.
 
yeeyee said:
The weirdos of Durham were calling 911 all last week reporting "unidentified alien like noises " coming from the atmosphere. The police were actually driving around trying to pinpoint the noise until one of them stopped to ask me if I was hearing the same thing he was hearing and if I knew what it was.

Yesterday I heard a Durham 911 call over the radio. Dispatch said the resident called about "extraterrestrial alien like noises" a responding officer asked, "did the caller really say extraterrestrial alien noises?"
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SMDH.

Here's what they sounded like at my house Friday morning. I've noticed they are loudest from about 9 - 11 AM.
 
To answer OP, they are white right after they moult, and their chitin will darken up over the day.

Also, not a locust, they don't even have the required mouth parts to eat vegetation. They essentially emerge, moult, mate, then die.
 
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