(a) Everything about your natural history of jackhammers is great. Thank you.
My thanks to the Audubon society for their comprehensive guides, which help me to identify the wild calls, the subtle species differentiation and the tell-tale signs of long-term infestation. The subsection on the mating calls of the common automobile is also fascinating.
I hope you don't have cause to buy a spotting list and start checking them off. My neighborhood is showing signs of being invaded by a species of pile driver next, and I've been seeing tracks from cement trucks.
I woke up once from a dream of fireworks to exploding paint cans in the shed across the street, which had caught fire and was burning both loudly and thickly (there was very heavy smoke) and periodically firing off these hollow incendiary bangs. We were in no danger and the fire department came exactly as they're supposed to, but I can't really recommend it. I woke up once in New Haven thinking I was in the middle of an earthquake, but it was construction with serious earth-moving beginning in my building's backyard.
In contrast, my best friend during her early childhood in China, slept through a rather monumental earthquake. This is more surprising when you realize that she was sleeping on the ceramic bed that connected to the family stove, where all her other family members were also sleeping.
I am glad that you do not generally wake in this fashion and I hope that it will be a short infestation and not for an entire season.
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My thanks to the Audubon society for their comprehensive guides, which help me to identify the wild calls, the subtle species differentiation and the tell-tale signs of long-term infestation. The subsection on the mating calls of the common automobile is also fascinating.
I hope you don't have cause to buy a spotting list and start checking them off. My neighborhood is showing signs of being invaded by a species of pile driver next, and I've been seeing tracks from cement trucks.
I woke up once from a dream of fireworks to exploding paint cans in the shed across the street, which had caught fire and was burning both loudly and thickly (there was very heavy smoke) and periodically firing off these hollow incendiary bangs. We were in no danger and the fire department came exactly as they're supposed to, but I can't really recommend it. I woke up once in New Haven thinking I was in the middle of an earthquake, but it was construction with serious earth-moving beginning in my building's backyard.
In contrast, my best friend during her early childhood in China, slept through a rather monumental earthquake. This is more surprising when you realize that she was sleeping on the ceramic bed that connected to the family stove, where all her other family members were also sleeping.
I am glad that you do not generally wake in this fashion and I hope that it will be a short infestation and not for an entire season.