[eyedigress]

It gets rough in the Appalachians. They cover everything and yes, it is loud.

[ronniesgal]

my doggie will be thrilled! she eats them ( vet said it was extra protein and ok)

[Hatteras]

Seems like every year we get the “cacophonous 17-year cicadas”...

[pepsi_junkie]

This says they come to NJ but 17 years ago I remember walking in DC and the ground crunching under my feet every few steps because of the cicadas everywhere. Back in my NJ home I barely saw a cicada. From that you can glean two things: (1) it’s not quite as wide spread as they suggest and (2) I’m old and remember things like the density of cicadas in past 17 year invasions.

[moovova]

Throw in some tree frogs...and you got a concert.

[Fungi]

Massospora cicadinia will be waiting, a fungus that eats the cicadas from the inside out.

[dfwgator]

Send them all to Washington DC.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I remember years ago they were called 17 year locusts.

What a life. They emerge and mate and die fairly quickly, only for their species to go dormant for another 17 years.

[MomwithHope]

Very cool - at our house we are in heavy woods in Michigan.

[FreedomPoster]

I was a kid in Northern Virginia when they came out 3 cycles ago. They were loud and everywhere. We were into Estes model rockets (this was the height of the Apollo program, remember), so we of course launched some in the payload section of some of the rockets that had one.

[Fiddlstix]

[Safetgiver]

I should get a lot of action for my Ass-Salt gun between Jap Lantern flies and these noisy pests.

[ConservativeInPA]

After lying dormant for nearly 20 years, the cacophonous 17-year cicadas

My sixth grade English teacher would have my head for writing something like that.

[hellinahandcart]

These particular cicadas were last out when I was still dating my husband, and they were unbelievably loud. There were so many of them.

His 10-year-old son grabbed one off of a tree trunk and chased me around the parking lot with it. He never did catch me.

He said “You run pretty fast for an old lady.”

[subterfuge]

We have them all the way down in Florida. If you’re from New York, Flah-rida!

[mellow velo]

We had an infestation here in NJ, but it was more recently than 17 years ago. More like 6-8 years ago. Two of our granddaughters were in a school play, and the walks to/from the parking lot were like an obstacle course trying to avoid the crunching noises under our shoes. The girls weren't even born 17 years ago.

I also remember one suicidal cicada in particular that meandered horizontally about a foot-and-a-half above the ground .. right into the spokes of my road bike.

[JudyinCanada]

I guess the murder hornets were a bust. Now we have to fear being driven to insanity by these creatures. If they’re in PA, we’ll have them in southern Ontario for sure.

[rickomatic]

17 year cycle? You know what the 17th letter of the alphabet is? This was predicted.....

[pa_dweller]

Cicadas - food of the dogs.

[SamAdams76]

I wish I had a large chicken thigh right about now.