The Creepy Choir?
On super-hot and steamy nights around Christmas in Australia,
we have cicadas.
They make a noise that’s between a hum and a buzz.
When enough of them join in as you are walking through the bush,
it’s a deafening cacophony that hurts your ears.
It can be overwhelming.
You feel the need to stomp on the ground, so there is quiet.
Then the symphony is stopped, at least temporarily.
But, just as every time you witness one of nature’s wonders,
your inner soul longs to have that immense surround sound of cicadas singing underground again.
And they do come back gradually if you tread lightly.
Those insect voices come from the earth but fill the sky with noise.
Cicadas form a strange orchestra, rising from silence to something that feels like cymbals crashing just next to your ear drum.
They are the most intense insects I know.
And occasionally, cicadas keep up their high-pitched,
rhythmic choir in unison all night long.
