I don’t think of cicadas as pests. I thjink they’re cool and I love the noise they make.
The noise is the reason that part of the Country is so screwed up. I lived in WV for 4 years. I hated the little things.
“To emerge as red-eyed adults ready to breed”
Another frat party.
The Asians will be snacking on them...
That’s an amazing cycle. It seems somewhat sad to me.
Happy 17th birthday, Cicadas!!!
Just one more year of high school left!
Well, well, well. I remember those guys from sometime in the 60’s in Joisey.
They forgot the “make people deaf”. Hate those damn things. Wondering about the population in our new neighborhood.
They are in the mid south too
The cacophony
It’s LSD is to hearing
Or jungle at night
Loud
These types of things come in cycles.
Out here in the Intermountain west, about every eight to ten years we have infestations of Crickets called Anabrus Simplex crickets, or more commonly known as “Mormon Crickets,” named for the outbreak in 1948 that almost killed all the crops of the Mormon settlers who had just entered the Salt Lake Valley in Utah at the time.
In 2005 or so, I can remember working out in the field here in Idaho and having millions of these crickets all over everything. divining on paved highways in the lesser used rural areas was actually dangerous because it was like driving on ice.
Anyhow, we were doing a lot of electrical work at some remote dams and were constantly having to literally stand up and shake the things off of ourselves.
When we were in Italy, they were so noisy. The hotter it was, the louder they got.
We had them last hear in Mississippi. All you heard when you went outside and then suddenly the noise stopped
You know, on some days, that sounds like a pretty good deal.
Glad I read the post. For a moment, I thought they were talking about Trumpbots and Cruzites.
Repent, for the end is near!
I remember these from years ago but they were called locusts then. Big outbreak in 1970 in the east.
Isn’t this article bigoted?? It focuses on mating between male and female.
They are being binary and hetero-normative.
What about the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered cicadas???? Don’t they deserve equal time ??? Do they have equal rights in cicada society???
Happens every spring
Sounds like their lives are as dismal as most people’s lives are.