[central_va]

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

I’m in rural Louisa Co. and it sounds like the Martian war machines from the original War of the Worlds film!

[Perdogg]

I wonder if the recent cold snap killed a bunch of them.

[Buckeye McFrog]

They’ve only been coming around every 17th. summer for a couple hundred million years. But that won’t stop the low info crowd from FULL SCALE PANIC!!!

[JPG]

After waiting 17 years they’re ready to get down and get busy.

[headsonpikes]

Bush’s fault!

[GreenAccord]

I was having a conversation with my teenage daughter who, in typical low-information-biology-education fashion, thought the impending cicadas plague was a once-in-a-lifetime event.

Even though these things are going to be a substantial nuisance, they really do speak to the majesty and amazing works of the Lord. By providing a food source that appears only once every 17 years, He creates a way for nature to cross the boundaries of the occasional brutal winter, or summer drought, or spring floods.

As I understand it, the re-emergence of the bugs is actually a regional event, with some areas of the country on a different 17-year sequence. What a beautiful way to ensure survival of species by providing a binge of food every so often, so as to ensure population booms among the types of animals and birds that feed on these blooms of insects across the country/planet.

[Nepeta]

The local 17 year brood hatched out here in 2004. They were noisy, pervasive, but they don't really do much else. They're neat to look at with those orange-rimmed eyes. One got down the back of my dress and began singing many minutes later while I was driving at 65 mph. But I knew what it was, though it was startling, and just shook the beast out in the parking lot.

The east coast will survive.

[knarf]

I already have a pretty good case of tinitus ... maybe it’ll be white noise and I’ll hear perfectly .. ! ??

[USMCPOP]

“Billions of bite-sized snacks are about to appear in your backyard.”

http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/849537_17-year-cicadas-are-edible—taste-a-lot-like-shrimp.html

There are cookbooks for them.

[Carriage Hill]

They’re deafening here in York, PA, already. I see the casings all over the tree trunks and branches, but haven’t seen any flying, yet.

[dragonblustar]

You’ll never get that sound out of your brain.......

[Gay State Conservative]

I remember about 30 years ago there was a “gypsy moth” infestation in the Northeast and in my area the trees were absolutely denuded of leaves by July 1st.I remember walking home at night from the train station (I worked 4PM-Midnight) and hearing them chewing on the leaves.Spooky.

[RegulatorCountry]

There’s been a 50’s B-movie sci-fi flying saucer hovering over my house for about a week now.

Must have some sort of cloaking device, because I just can’t see the dang thing, lol.

[mware]

I was staying in Virginia during the weekend of the dedication of the WW2 Memorial in Washington. MY good Lord, what was racket and mess. Thousands of them buzzing like dive bombers at you, and hearing the crunch of their bodies as you walk on them.

You could not take a step without walking on their dead bodies.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

So close to Deep Creek, Maryland...

It’s a loooong story...but Deep Creek getting overrun by cicadas this weekend would be poetic justice:)

[Cementjungle]

I grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs, and certainly remember those suckers one year... there were crunchy bug bodies everywhere... couldn’t walk anywhere without lots of crunching for a few weeks.