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Posted on 01/26/2021 2:47:45 PM PST by nickcarraway
After lying dormant for nearly 20 years, the cacophonous 17-year cicadas will soon emerge from their subterranean slumber pods, ready to bring their “head-splitting” noise to the East Coast.
“The end of May through June, it can get pretty loud,” said Howard Russell, an entomologist at Michigan State University, told USA Today of the groundbreaking phenomenon.
The winged, black insects are classified in “broods” according to when they emerge from underground and raise hell. This spring, we’ll be hearing from millions of Brood Xers — one of largest broods in the US — who will likely be surfacing in 15 states: Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, along with Washington, DC. So much for escaping NYC’s rampant noise pollution during stay-at-home orders.
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I actually like the sound of them. It’s a nice soothing bed-time concert in the country!
I remember these from when I lived in MD.
We have a periodic cicada here in NM. It’s smaller and comes out every few years. Haven’t seen them for about 10 years, but we’ve been in a bad drought, and when digging I’ve come across dead ones. I think the ground is too hard and dry for them to get out.
IF you think about it, a shrimp is just "a bug" too...
Reminds me of a line by Steve McQueen from the movie, "Tom Horn."
Indian Scout Tom Horn was invited to a cattleman's picnic, and they were serving lobters. He's sitting there, looking at it. A woman says, "Haven't you had lobster before?" Horn said, "I've never eaten a bug that big!"
Mark
Back in the days of the Massachusetts Bay colonies lobsters were fed to prisoners, apprentices and slaves. By WWII they became rich man’s fare.
A sea-going bug is different...(My excuse...LOL)
I grew up in Northern Virginia too. I think it must be the epicenter of cicadas. I don’t miss them.
The wife and I rented a lakeside cabin in a SC state park years ago. The cicadas were out in droves...plus the tree frogs. It was one big primal scream. A local town was actually having a Cicada Festival...and one stand was sellIng cicada pizza. (No thanks!)
Hawaii. Tree frogs. They are so loud.
I remember going to a seated outdoor event for about 300 in attendance during the last wave of cicadas, and you could hardly hear the speakers even with microphones.
There should be plenty there already that emplanted after the last invasion. There are a lot of parks and trees in DC where the cicadas could do their thing. One day I had to drive through Washington during the height of the cicadas' concerto with the windows open because the car's air conditioner was broken. It was plumb deafening.
Actual size.
I saw what you did there...
"Full On Insect Cacophony"
In the 30s they were cheap and sold by the pail on the ct coast
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