Posted on 01/29/2021 12:15:37 PM PST by BeauBo
In one of nature’s mysteries, 15 states will soon witness the reemergence of Brood X — or the Great Eastern Brood — of periodical cicadas. These “large, winged, kind of scary-looking but mostly harmless flying insects known for their almost deafening buzz” emerge in-unison every 17 years.
Periodical cicadas have “black bodies and bold red eyes,” and spend 17 years lying underground in “wingless nymph form,” feeding on sap. While most cicadas travel as individuals or in small groups after reaching adulthood, periodical cicadas follow a strict schedule...
“The end of May through June, it can get pretty loud — if you are in an area where they are numerous, there can be hundreds of thousands, or millions, of them,”...
Raupp estimated that there could be as many as 1.5 million cicadas per acre, which would place the total population of Brood X in the trillions.
Brood X, “one of the largest broods of periodical cicadas in the nation,” will emerge in 15 states: Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
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LOL!
Corrected line: Is Someone trying to tell us something.
Sorry.
Wuhan locusts
there’s that number 17 again...
When Brood X emerged in 1987 the land where we lived was a farm with no trees except near a small stream running through it. When the Brood re-emerged in 2004 there was a new housing development where farmland fields used to be. Since it was formerly treeless there were no cicadas emerging near the new houses. But the new development was loaded with new street trees and trees planted on the yards of the new houses.
Cicadas flew in from distant woodlands, landed on the new “virgin” trees, did their thing and then died. I expect to see many thousands of cicadas emerging in this newly “colonized” Brood X cicada territory come May.
But where will they work?!
I can’t figure that out, we get cicadas every year........
As a kid We called them locusts here in NYS. Though I did know they were cicada. We also called them Katie-dids.
I will tell them Hello for you. We get a bumper crop. Creepy in the evening to watch thousands climb up a tree. In the morning it’s always “can I go out the door...how many will be on my car tires...watch your step”
I thought the title, they meant Democrats.
It can’t be 17 years, already.
Where are the murder hornets when you need them?
I love watching them where I play softball in the fall. There's many holes along the fence line dug out by the Killers so I stand and watch them fly into their holes with the Cicada which is just as large as they are...........Nature is amazing.......
The “clean insects” are the locusts that are basically swarming grasshoppers. Cicadas don’t exist in the middle east, so they aren’t mentioned in the Bible.
It’s getting rather biblical this year.
Saw one last year fly by carrying a big grasshopper, went in a vent hole in the basement wall next door.
We get cicadas every year, as well...but this brood is biblical. I remember 1987 and 2004 (I moved to Maryland in 1982). 1987 was loud in the distance..by 2004 I was living in a different area of Maryland and was absolutely gobsmacked at what was coming out of the ground. Luckily, I am not tooooooo skeeved out about it, otherwise there would be an issue. :). They were all over the doorways, over every toy in the yard, on the trees, in the trees, and they love car tires for some weird reason.
I used to nap in the hazy, lazy days of summer to the drone of cicadas. Some of the best sleep there is.
In central PA, I can only remember one locust hatch that I would describe as impressive. That was around 1970 +/- a year. They were everywhere and we gathered them up for fishing bait. Maybe this year will rival that but I have my doubts, reminds me of all the other dramatic predictions that mostly fall flat.
Bugs or Dimocrats? No difference...both vermin. 🤮
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