Posted on 01/29/2021 12:15:37 PM PST by BeauBo
In one of nature’s mysteries, 15 states will soon witness the reemergence of Brood X — or the Great Eastern Brood — of periodical cicadas. These “large, winged, kind of scary-looking but mostly harmless flying insects known for their almost deafening buzz” emerge in-unison every 17 years.
Periodical cicadas have “black bodies and bold red eyes,” and spend 17 years lying underground in “wingless nymph form,” feeding on sap. While most cicadas travel as individuals or in small groups after reaching adulthood, periodical cicadas follow a strict schedule...
“The end of May through June, it can get pretty loud — if you are in an area where they are numerous, there can be hundreds of thousands, or millions, of them,”...
Raupp estimated that there could be as many as 1.5 million cicadas per acre, which would place the total population of Brood X in the trillions.
Brood X, “one of the largest broods of periodical cicadas in the nation,” will emerge in 15 states: Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
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Pull out the fryin pans..
More judgments from God.....
I remember years ago, people called these 17 year locusts. Apparently cicada is the correct entomology terminology.
What a life. They gestate for 17 years, emerge to mate, and don’t live very long.
It is too long since last we sang together.
God judges a different part of the country like clockwork every 17 years? Besides, these bugs just suck treesap, they don’t destroy crops.
They are considered clean insects, by the Bible.
Eat up.
Technically not locusts, but close enough.
Democadas
‘Pull out the fryin pans..’
I once saw a female Eastern Bluebird catch one of these things, snip the head off clean as you’d like, and swallow the rest of it down...
I’ve been through a couple of those cycles. It’s interesting.
COOL!
My backyard backs up to a tree line. It is loud with the normal Cicadas. It will be deafening with even more.
I wonder if there will be more “Cicada Killer” wasps. They are HUGE.
Kool
“More judgments from God....”
Why are Cicadas a judgement from God?
I love Cicada season. Grew up in MD with them every 17 years. I will miss them for the first time this year as I no longer live there.
>>>Brood X, “one of the largest broods of periodical cicadas in the nation,” will emerge in 15 states: Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C.<<<
There are numerous errors in that Statement.
Proofreaders, we don’t need no damn Proofreaders.
Locusts (see African news yesterday)*, then frogs, and now these cicadas. Is Someone trying to the us something?
* On the album New Morning, Bob Dylan included a song he wrote about getting an honorary degree and the fact that cicadas-—which he called locusts for the song-—made a deafening sound by the thousands nearby.The man next to him whose head was exploding was Byrds and CSN friend David Crosby, who decided to liven his experience by taking LSD.
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