Posted on 01/26/2021 2:47:45 PM PST by nickcarraway
After lying dormant for nearly 20 years, the cacophonous 17-year cicadas will soon emerge from their subterranean slumber pods, ready to bring their “head-splitting” noise to the East Coast.
“The end of May through June, it can get pretty loud,” said Howard Russell, an entomologist at Michigan State University, told USA Today of the groundbreaking phenomenon.
The winged, black insects are classified in “broods” according to when they emerge from underground and raise hell. This spring, we’ll be hearing from millions of Brood Xers — one of largest broods in the US — who will likely be surfacing in 15 states: Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, along with Washington, DC. So much for escaping NYC’s rampant noise pollution during stay-at-home orders.
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It gets rough in the Appalachians. They cover everything and yes, it is loud.
my doggie will be thrilled! she eats them ( vet said it was extra protein and ok)
Seems like every year we get the “cacophonous 17-year cicadas”...
This says they come to NJ but 17 years ago I remember walking in DC and the ground crunching under my feet every few steps because of the cicadas everywhere. Back in my NJ home I barely saw a cicada. From that you can glean two things: (1) it’s not quite as wide spread as they suggest and (2) I’m old and remember things like the density of cicadas in past 17 year invasions.
Yeah...just many more in the 17 year cycle.
Throw in some tree frogs...and you got a concert.
Are these the red-eyed ones? They are so strange looking; and loud!!! I had to turn on a fan at night to help drown the out. And the smell they gave off when they died! We had to shovel our way to our cars to go to work!
Massospora cicadinia will be waiting, a fungus that eats the cicadas from the inside out.
Send them all to Washington DC.
apparently good for humans too
I remember years ago they were called 17 year locusts.
What a life. They emerge and mate and die fairly quickly, only for their species to go dormant for another 17 years.
“...Boiled, they’re going to taste a lot like shrimp...”
They ain’t gonna taste like shrimp to me ‘cause I ain’t eatin’ a BUG!!!!!!!!!!
Very cool - at our house we are in heavy woods in Michigan.
I was a kid in Northern Virginia when they came out 3 cycles ago. They were loud and everywhere. We were into Estes model rockets (this was the height of the Apollo program, remember), so we of course launched some in the payload section of some of the rockets that had one.
I should get a lot of action for my Ass-Salt gun between Jap Lantern flies and these noisy pests.
My sixth grade English teacher would have my head for writing something like that.
I usually camp in my RV. Our family decided they wanted to experience sleeping in some tents in a national forest. It wasn't too hot so I was game. Round about 2 in the morning all the bugs and the frogs and the chirping and the buzzing and every other sound -- drove me nuts. I got no sleep that night.
These particular cicadas were last out when I was still dating my husband, and they were unbelievably loud. There were so many of them.
His 10-year-old son grabbed one off of a tree trunk and chased me around the parking lot with it. He never did catch me.
He said “You run pretty fast for an old lady.”
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