How did people first figure out that it was cicadas that make this noise? I could see that taking a long time.
Were there just like a thousand years where people were like “yeah, the trees are screaming. They do that in the summer.”
Well, they are kinda huge and obvious. Probably at some point somebody went, “What the FUCK is making that noise?” followed the sound to its source, and discovered a fat grasshopper the size of your thumb sitting on a tree twig and buzzing its tiny head off.
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