1 July 2024
By all accounts this has been a rare firefly season in Pittsburgh. Since we don’t have a yard my husband and I went to Schenley Park final night time to see them. Stunning and peaceable.
This video by Radim Schreiber, FireflyExperience.org offers you a style of what it’s like to look at jap fireflies (Photinus pyralis).
Firefly season will finish in mid-July as scissor grinder cicadas (Neotibicen pruinosus) take over.
Cicadas stay most of their lives as nymphs within the soil below bushes. Once they’re able to turn into adults they crawl out of the soil, climb up a tree, grasp on and emerge from their exoskeletons.
After which, largely at nightfall, they start to “sing” a repetitive WEEE ah, WEEE ah, WEEE ah, WEEE ah that tapers at finish. Click on right here to listen to Scissor grinder cicada at songsofinsects.com
Although I haven’t heard cicadas right here but, Mike Fialkovich says they’ve been in his Penn Hills neighborhood for greater than per week.
