{"id":3872,"date":"2013-06-06T05:17:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T12:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2024-05-05T16:13:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T23:13:18","slug":"how-loud-in-decibels-do-cicadas-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/how-loud-in-decibels-do-cicadas-get\/","title":{"rendered":"How loud\/noisy (in decibels) do periodical cicadas get?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday <a href=\"\/cicadas\/category\/contributors\/roy-troutman\/\">Roy Troutman<\/a>, <a href=\"\/cicadas\/category\/contributors\/elias-bonaros\/\">Elias Bonaros<\/a> and I traveled around central New Jersey, looking for cicadas. They were not hard to find. Elias found a location in Colonia that had a particularly loud <strong>Magicicada cassini<\/strong> chorusing center. Using my camera and Extech 407730 40-to-130-Decibel Digital Sound Level Meter, I recorded the calls of these cicadas and how loud they can get. The quality of the video isn&#8217;t the best because it&#8217;s a camera, not a video camera, but it is good enough. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Magicicada cassini<\/strong> chorusing center peaking at 85db (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qfObVQz1rQs\">on YouTube<\/a>): <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qfObVQz1rQs?si=rHbJFJVTe3BVqfyA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Elias and Roy used finger snaps, mimicking the wing snaps of female cicadas, to trick the males into singing:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Magicicada cassini<\/strong> responding to fingersnaps (<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/67691115\">on Vimeo<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/67691115\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/67691115\">Magicicada cassini responding to fingersnaps<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/cicadamania\">Cicada Mania<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We placed the <strong>M. cassini<\/strong> directly on the microphone and got calls as high as 109 decibels, <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/67690961\">in this video<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/67690961\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/67690961\">Magicicada cassini calling at 109db in Colonia NJ<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/cicadamania\">Cicada Mania<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There were a few <strong>M. septendecim<\/strong> in the area as well. A Magicicada septendecim goes from a Court II to Court III call as soon as it crawls on the decibel meter, <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/67691116\">in this video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/67691116\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/67691116\">Magicicada septendecim court 3<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/cicadamania\">Cicada Mania<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The cicada choruses in Central New Jersey have no doubt gotten louder since last week. Hopefully, on Sunday I&#8217;ll get back out to Central Jersey or Staten Island and make some recordings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday Roy Troutman, Elias Bonaros and I traveled around central New Jersey, looking for cicadas. They were not hard to find. Elias found a location in Colonia that had a particularly loud Magicicada cassini chorusing center. Using my camera and Extech 407730 40-to-130-Decibel Digital Sound Level Meter, I recorded the calls of these cicadas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,76,86,281,2,155,20,16],"tags":[257,258],"class_list":["post-3872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sounds","category-brood-ii","category-elias-bonaros","category-faqs","category-magicicada","category-periodical","category-roy-troutman","category-video","tag-m-cassini","tag-m-septendecim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}