I Dread the Ruckus of Those Annoying Cicadas. Here's How I'm Dealing This Year

CNET ^ | 6/5/25 | Jen Karner

[hardspunned]

I can’t hear my tinnitus over the din!

[Jamestown1630]

I remember the 1970 emergence of Brood X.

I’ve always loved the sound. In the distance, they sound like an alien spaceship from a 1950s science fiction flick.

[KarlInOhio]

We won't see Brood XIV again, which is appearing this year, until 2037.

That math makes no sense. They happen every 17 years. 2025 + 17 = 2042.

[Ronald77]

Lots of protein, boiled, fried etc just ask Bill Gates he’d tell you just how good they are and how lucky to have them. Yummy yummy

[Georgia Girl 2]

Me neither. I find it soothing. 😉

[cyclotic]

I live in Maryland. Every year I hear whining and moaning about the cicadas and how this will be the worst ever.

Meh. I’ve never noticed anything more than normal night sounds.

[chiller]

Mother Nature at her best....after two episodes in Chicago metro, moving west, I considered a special trip home simply to bathe in the magic again.

[The Great RJ]

The cicadas always remind my of those hot summer nights when I was a kid, when you played with your friends until dark and in those pre central AC days feel asleep to their singing.

[Feckless]

I don’t mind them except they make the Copperheads active as hell. Killed 6 in 4 days once and had both dogs bitten.

[central_va]

These do NOT come every year. Your post makes you sound stupid.

[central_va]

Md is brood 10 not 14.

"Brood X (Brood 10), the Great Eastern Brood, is one of 15 broods of periodical cicadas that appear regularly throughout the eastern United States.[1][2] The brood's first major emergence after 2021 is predicted to occur during 2038.[1][3]"

[KingLudd]

Don’t be a pussy, Jen. They were here first.

[cyclotic]

Maybe you should do a search before you mouth off.

There are about ten articles in FR about a cicada invasion in 2024 and 2021.

But no, you’d rather criticize.

[central_va]

Different cicada.

[madison10]

I love the sound, especially with the crickets and birds. Maybe peepers, too. It is a concert of nature.

[sauropod]

I remember the brood in 1987. I was working in the DC area, and when they were active, the sound they made was awe-inspiring and deafening at the same time. Especially driving up Beach Drive.

[Bigg Red]

I am guessing the annoyance level of cicada calls is nothing compared to this crybaby’s complaining.

[central_va]

Why would complain about them “every year” when they only come every 17 years? What is the point?

[central_va]

Md is brood 10 not 14.

"Brood X (Brood 10), the Great Eastern Brood, is one of 15 broods of periodical cicadas that appear regularly throughout the eastern United States.[1][2] The brood's first major emergence after 2021 is predicted to occur during 2038.[1][3]"

[fwdude]

I don't live in an area where these massive broods emerge every 7/13/17 years, but we have the annual green-back species that doesn't overwhelm us.

I can almost set my calendar for the Summer Solstice by the first sounds of these insects. It is the soothing sound of summer for me.