Posted on 06/06/2025 9:02:41 AM PDT by hardspunned
I was a teenager the first time I remember the cicadas engulfing Maryland. Big, noisy bugs with red eyes that were absolutely everywhere. They were in my grandparents pool, inside my best friend's truck, flying into windows and doors and invading everything with their incessant noise. The biggest problem with cicadas isn't their presence on the trees, it's the skull-throbbing noise they produce non-stop. Their constant buzz can be as loud as a chainsaw. As someone who gets overstimulated by too much noise, it's crucial to reach for a quality pair of noise-cancelling headphones to drown out the cacophonous racket.
We're in the thick of cicada season brood XIV (14) now -- from May through at least June, these noisy bugs will climb up from the ground and swarm in a number of eastern states before they mate, die off, and disappear only to emerge again years later. We won't see Brood XIV again, which is appearing this year, until 2037.
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I remember the 1970 emergence of Brood X.
I’ve always loved the sound. In the distance, they sound like an alien spaceship from a 1950s science fiction flick.
That math makes no sense. They happen every 17 years. 2025 + 17 = 2042.
Lots of protein, boiled, fried etc just ask Bill Gates he’d tell you just how good they are and how lucky to have them. Yummy yummy
Me neither. I find it soothing. 😉
I live in Maryland. Every year I hear whining and moaning about the cicadas and how this will be the worst ever.
Meh. I’ve never noticed anything more than normal night sounds.
Mother Nature at her best....after two episodes in Chicago metro, moving west, I considered a special trip home simply to bathe in the magic again.
The cicadas always remind my of those hot summer nights when I was a kid, when you played with your friends until dark and in those pre central AC days feel asleep to their singing.
I don’t mind them except they make the Copperheads active as hell. Killed 6 in 4 days once and had both dogs bitten.
"Brood X (Brood 10), the Great Eastern Brood, is one of 15 broods of periodical cicadas that appear regularly throughout the eastern United States.[1][2] The brood's first major emergence after 2021 is predicted to occur during 2038.[1][3]"
Don’t be a pussy, Jen. They were here first.
Maybe you should do a search before you mouth off.
There are about ten articles in FR about a cicada invasion in 2024 and 2021.
But no, you’d rather criticize.
Different cicada.
I love the sound, especially with the crickets and birds. Maybe peepers, too. It is a concert of nature.
I remember the brood in 1987. I was working in the DC area, and when they were active, the sound they made was awe-inspiring and deafening at the same time. Especially driving up Beach Drive.
I am guessing the annoyance level of cicada calls is nothing compared to this crybaby’s complaining.
Why would complain about them “every year” when they only come every 17 years? What is the point?
"Brood X (Brood 10), the Great Eastern Brood, is one of 15 broods of periodical cicadas that appear regularly throughout the eastern United States.[1][2] The brood's first major emergence after 2021 is predicted to occur during 2038.[1][3]"
I can almost set my calendar for the Summer Solstice by the first sounds of these insects. It is the soothing sound of summer for me.
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