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I Dread the Ruckus of Those Annoying Cicadas. Here's How I'm Dealing This Year
CNET ^ | 6/5/25 | Jen Karner

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 can’t hear my tinnitus over the din!
1 posted on 06/06/2025 9:02:41 AM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

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.


2 posted on 06/06/2025 9:06:09 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: hardspunned
We won't see Brood XIV again, which is appearing this year, until 2037.

That math makes no sense. They happen every 17 years. 2025 + 17 = 2042.

3 posted on 06/06/2025 9:14:21 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I refuse to call the left "progressive" because I do not see slavery to the government as progress.)
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To: Jamestown1630

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


4 posted on 06/06/2025 9:15:46 AM PDT by Ronald77
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To: hardspunned

Me neither. I find it soothing. 😉


5 posted on 06/06/2025 9:18:48 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: hardspunned

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.


6 posted on 06/06/2025 9:21:59 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

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.


7 posted on 06/06/2025 9:25:20 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead". (We'll go ahead))
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To: hardspunned

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.


8 posted on 06/06/2025 9:26:13 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: hardspunned

I don’t mind them except they make the Copperheads active as hell. Killed 6 in 4 days once and had both dogs bitten.


9 posted on 06/06/2025 9:26:26 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This TagliCanne CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: cyclotic
These do NOT come every year. Your post makes you sound stupid.


10 posted on 06/06/2025 9:26:28 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: cyclotic
Md is brood 10 not 14.

"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]"

11 posted on 06/06/2025 9:27:43 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: hardspunned

Don’t be a pussy, Jen. They were here first.


12 posted on 06/06/2025 9:28:11 AM PDT by KingLudd
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To: central_va

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.


13 posted on 06/06/2025 9:33:17 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: The Great RJ

Different cicada.


14 posted on 06/06/2025 9:33:44 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: hardspunned

I love the sound, especially with the crickets and birds. Maybe peepers, too. It is a concert of nature.


15 posted on 06/06/2025 9:34:04 AM PDT by madison10
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To: Jamestown1630

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.


16 posted on 06/06/2025 9:34:19 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: hardspunned

I am guessing the annoyance level of cicada calls is nothing compared to this crybaby’s complaining.


17 posted on 06/06/2025 9:34:48 AM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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To: cyclotic

Why would complain about them “every year” when they only come every 17 years? What is the point?


18 posted on 06/06/2025 9:35:12 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: cyclotic
Md is brood 10 not 14.

"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]"

19 posted on 06/06/2025 9:36:02 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
I don't live in an area where these massive broods emerge every 7/13/17 years, but we have the annual green-back species that doesn't overwhelm us.

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.

20 posted on 06/06/2025 9:36:03 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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