Posted on 06/06/2025 9:02:41 AM PDT by hardspunned
I was a teenager the first time I remember the cicadas engulfing Maryland. Big, noisy bugs with red eyes that were absolutely everywhere. They were in my grandparents pool, inside my best friend's truck, flying into windows and doors and invading everything with their incessant noise. The biggest problem with cicadas isn't their presence on the trees, it's the skull-throbbing noise they produce non-stop. Their constant buzz can be as loud as a chainsaw. As someone who gets overstimulated by too much noise, it's crucial to reach for a quality pair of noise-cancelling headphones to drown out the cacophonous racket.
We're in the thick of cicada season brood XIV (14) now -- from May through at least June, these noisy bugs will climb up from the ground and swarm in a number of eastern states before they mate, die off, and disappear only to emerge again years later. We won't see Brood XIV again, which is appearing this year, until 2037.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...
“”I don’t see how you could have been here in 1970 and 1987 without noticing the difference “”
WHERE is HERE? They apparently aren’t in every locale. Lived in CA for 50 years and never knew they existed...until a visit in the summer of 1996 to Prescott, AZ.. NOISE like I never knew existed in nature!
Last year articles were about Maryland. Today’s was about maryland. Must be an awful small region.
Beyond that I don’t care about insects. Apparently you do. Go
For it.
Cicadas, no big deal. Now Gypsy Moths, THAT IS A BIG DEAL!
I remember Brood X in 1987, 2004 and 2021. That high-pitched howling sound permeated the air everywhere.
The article linked in this thread seems to have errors in it.
The brood emerging this Summer in Maryland is not the ‘Great Eastern Brood’, or Brood X; that isn’t due again until 2038. The one emerging in Maryland this year is Brood XIV.
A number of years ago our area was inundated with them. They were loud but I could accept that but when I needed to clear a path between my ball and the cup on the putting greens, that was just too much.
I was responding to someone who says he/she lives in Maryland but has never noticed the periodical cicadas here.
As others who live here have also said, it’s pretty hard to miss Brood X when it climbs up in Maryland.
Cicadas are lovely! And they will soon be gone!
“”Now Gypsy Moths, THAT IS A BIG DEAL!””
I would have to move if that was the case. Lived in CA but visited my parents in PA and heard horrible stories about them. Saw pictures of their nests hanging from trees. People were supposed to burn the nests as they saw/found them.
Heard stories about people going to work and seeing trees in the morning and returning home at night and all the trees had been stripped by Gypsy Moths during the day. Or is it the caterpillars that eat them?
My mother hung clothes on clothes lines and the caterpillars would get on the clothes. She was as horrified by them as I was - got it from her. (When I was a kid, it was apple tree worms that petrified me). She boiled water and poured it on them on the porch steps - she swore they looked at her as she did so. Clothes would never have come off the lines if that had been my job...
If that’s worst that happens
Rejoice
I don’t mind em
I have been through several of these emergences. They are a part of nature and I am glad I got to witness them.
When I was a kid we’d just shoot them out of the trees with our BB guns. Easy easy.
Don’t you have DU to haunt? You started calling people dumb and stupid out of the box. Try some tact and give an explanation. Are you 14, or what?
They pretty much ruined an outdoor graduation involving our family the last time around. On the other hand, it drowned out the left-wing graduation speaker.
The 17 year cicada invasion is of biblical proportions. I am not exaggerating.
We get the 17 year brood and the one that came in ‘21. Both are terrible in Northern Kentucky.
It’s nothing to me more than louder tinnitus. I’ve been telling lots of people around here when they complain, welcome to my world.
I cut grass under a bunch of 50 year old oaks. The cicadas tend to swarm me and mower. Really, really thick. Disgusting little devils.
Oh yes, I’ve heard it. But there are annual cicadas in the Deep South to go with the periodical ones.
One good thing about them is I only have to feed my dog about half what she normally eats.
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