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Where are they?`

Discussion in 'Everything Else (off topic)' started by Backwoods Savage, Aug 7, 2014.

  1. concretegrazer

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    Their singing down here.
     
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  2. thewoodlands

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    This is from one of the local websites, mark down that date you first heard them, the complete article is under North Country Insects.

    An old Abenaki friend of mine told me that katydids begin calling about six weeks before the first frost; this way one can tell whether or not it will be a late fall. For a while I would mark on the calendar when the first katydid called, and in my scientifically-unsound sample, the katydids were correct (i.e., Katy did).
    http://northcountrynow.com/
     
  3. Backwoods Savage

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    Yes, that is the old saying here too but it is rarely true. Close though so still a good guideline.

    Here's another. When the wind blows over the oat stubble, it is 6 weeks till fall.
     
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    The south would be rough...that and the snakes
     
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    100 is ridiculous. it's the equivalent of -5
     
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    Been hearing them here !
     
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    This weekend was not bad. High 80s saturday , like 88/89 and sunday was low 90s. Was outside 830am-930pm. On tractor about 2 hours on the roof , roofing in afternoon and cutting wood and splitting the rest. Sunday cutting wood then splitting, then an hour more on tractor that mourn and on the roof that afternoon. Loaded up for the 3 hour return trip home at 430.