Posted on 06/01/2013 11:10:41 AM PDT by SamAdams76
So I'm sitting on my picnic table on a hot 90 degree day, sipping a beer and lazily surfing about the Internet, when it suddenly occurred to me that no sex-starved cicadas are joining me.
Not that I'm complaining, mind you, but I just got to wondering whatever happened to all that fuss about the billion or so cicadas that were to invade the Northeast this spring?
About a month ago, there was a plethora of articles heralding the imminent arrival of clouds of sexually repressed insects climbing out of the cold ground after 17 years of hibernation for their much heralded mating cycle.
All that we were waiting for was the ground to warm up to 64 degrees and they were to come on out and terrorize us for a week or two. Well the ground under my feet is a toasty 100 degrees plus and all I have to show for it is sunburned feet, ants and some mosquito bites.
Well, that's all I have to say. Not complaining or anything. Just wondering, that's all. There sure was a lot of fuss made about this back in late April/early May when the ground was still cold. Guess it must have been a slow news cycle and they needed something to get us excited about.
I suppose I'll file this cicada invasion in the same folder with other "disasters and spectacles" that never quite panned out. Halley's Comet, global warming, ice age, famine, overpopulation, Y2K, 401k, Mayan calendar, nuclear war, etc., etc.
I’m in NC and have yet to see one. I mean literally one.
Someone told the IRS that the cicadas were conservative. They’ll never be heard from again.
Someone told the IRS that the cicadas were conservative. They’ll never be heard from again.
The big ones in town haven’t fired up yet but the ones on the ranch are going strong and they’re loud.
Whoops, I should have downsized that.
Coastal Connecticut and not a peep.
Brown symbols on the map above were generated from verified records in the Cicada Central Database on 20 January 2013.
Blue symbols on the map are based on Marlatt (1923).
Gold symbols are based on Simon (1988); smaller symbols are records with a lower degree of certainty.
I haven’t seen any in this part of Connecticut. I heard that they could be in some towns but not it others. They were all over the place when I drove to North Carolina 6 or 7 years ago. We had to bob and weave to avoid them while we stopped at a gas station in Maryland.
LOL!
They don’t come to the west coast - at least I’ve never seen them. In Califormia we had June bugs but they weren’t noisy except when they were hitting the screens. In Oregon and Washington what we have are slugs. YUK! At least they’re quiet....and slow. Apparently when he was a kid my brother in law used to eat them. He seems to be proud of this.
Overrun in areas of central NJ!! Working outside drives you batty after a while.
The things aren't supposed to bite, but I remember one landed on my arm and drew some blood.
Enjoy your outdoor wedding.
You want some? We can box 'em up and send you tens of thousands if you're real lonely.
17 years ago, my house was the epicenter. Houses down the block had hardly any while our swing set, deck, poolside, etc. were completely covered.
I now live about a mile away, and I just saw one casing in my yard this morning.
Maybe it’s the long, cold spring we had around here.
So, it’s a staggered invasion. Early wakers just prepping the way? Oh, well, I recall the noise of tree frogs when I moved here, so maybe this will just be a variation on that.
Yeah, thanks, LOL.
OMG, come to my property in Eastern PA. We have thousands upon thousands of them. I think they are worse in our yard than 1996. They are thick all over every tree, shrub, weed, our fence, our shed, everywhere. Crawling, flying, it’s yucky. Soon they will be flying much more, you won’t be able to walk across the yard without getting bombarded. There is a high hum like your ears are ringing very loudly that never stops. The tree damage will come in a few weeks, as they slit open the underside of all the small twigs and branches. It’s awful!
Once they have them registered as democrat voters they won’t need them until next year...
If you saw them 6 or 7 years ago, it was not this Brood. Brood II last came out in 1996 and before that 1979.
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