Whatever happened to the much-ballyhooed Cicada Invasion of 2013?

[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.

[Old_Grouch]

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.

They are very patchy. Our neighbors don't have them. If you went back to your old house, I would be pretty sure it is overrun with them.

[Rebelbase]

It’s tapering off here in NC. For the past couple of weeks you could hear their racket in the daytime, today none.

[Vendome]

They flew the coop?

[Uncle Chip]

I can’t hear you!!! You need to talk louder!!! What’s all that noise in the background!!!

[AdaGray]

We have them in lower NY State and they’re just getting warmed up. Wait a few weeks.

[bert]

We had them last year. They were millions locally. My back yard and some of the front had tens of thousands of 1/2 holes.

The erupted here in early May. They leave literally piles of translucent brown carapaces when the adults emerge fron their skin. They are nasty with big red eyes. Birds won’t touch the, Except that is for Cedar Wax wings.

[quintr]

thought cicadas came out at mid to late June.

One of the funniest things Jane and I ever saw was a little chipmunk who apparently developed quite a liking to the bugs. Had his mouth stuffed so full he couldn’t go back down into his burrow hole. That is, until he ate some of his tasty meal.

[Georgia Girl 2]

We get them every year here in GA. Sometimes they are so loud you can’t hear yourself think.

[VoiceOfBruck]

I’m on the back deck here in northern VA w/ Mrs. Bruck, and we have to raise our voices to talk over the din of cicadas.

On the plus side, I can’t hear my annoying neighbor’s constant power tools!

[SunkenCiv]

Obviously this lack of foliage-destroying cicada billions is due to environnmental disasters caused by humans. /s

[KingLudd]

I’m in Prince William County and every day for a week I could scoop up a gallon of dead ones just from my driveway. They’re everywhere, in my car, in my house, in the grass, in the air, in the pool, on the streets, just everywhere. The little holes they crawled out of are everywhere too. I’ve taken a bunch of pictures, and collected some for the Smithsonian’s Insect Zoo. They’re very loud too. Sounds like a ufo from a 50s sci-fi movie.

I fished for bass with some of the dead ones today. i didn’t catch any with them.

[OldPossum]

Come on down to Virginia. They are pretty talkative around here.

You're darn tootin' they are. At certain times at night the sound is extremely loud.

[P.O.E.]

I should go take a ride over there, just to gloat.

[pax_et_bonum]

Global Worming.
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Earth Worms?

;-)

[pax_et_bonum]

Global Worming Ping

(Please see post #8.)

[Jack Hydrazine]

I didn’t think it would be what was predicted considering the extended winter.

[Arthur McGowan]

I grew up in D.C. There, the big brood was 1936, 1953, 1970, 1987, 2004. Clearly, the next is 2021. I don’t know what region all the news stories have been talking about.