[MamaLucci]

Since the summer that I turned 8 years old, I've had "issues" about locusts. (((((shudder)))))

[sharktrager]

Not the first. One a few eeks ago.

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[corkoman]

i was in Baltimore last time they swarmed - loud - and that was indeed 17 years ago. sigh, I am old.....

[concentric circles]

Periodical Cicadas to Emerge in May - 3/12/04

[Vigilantcitizen]

Gonna be some fat, happy bass and bream.

[A Jovial Cad]

Great article! Thanks for posting it. I've long been fascinated by Cicada Broods. Last summer a 13 year brood emerged here. It's funny, but whenever I would call attention to their mating calls and mention that we where hearing a rare occurence, people would insist that the cicada's sang every year. I would explain that actually they were just remembering those sounds from the *last* time a brood emerged, and in these parts that would have been 13 years ago (there is only one brood in our state). They would be truly amazed, but when they thought long and hard about it would concede that they couldn't really remember hearing them last summer, or the one before that, but just assumed they came out every year.
Again, thanks for posting this excellent article.

[RandallFlagg]

HAAA!!! Funny story time:

My Wife, Sons and I drove down to Dallas to visit friends last year and on the way back, we stopped to get gas at about 2AM. At this station, there were bugs all over the place, buzzing around the lights. As we were filling, I saw a cicada and picked it up by the wings. I told my Wife, "Ya know, these bugs are in Guinness as the loudest in the world?" She gave me, "The Look," and told me to put it down.

I threw it in the hopes that it would fly away, which it did.

But it came back....

The next few minutes were spent with my Wife and I running like idiots around the gas station thile we were being buzzed and divebombed by this little beast. She was screaming and, of course, I was laughing hysterically. It finally went Kamakaze on me and slammed me (HARD) on my head. I said, "OW!" and SHE started to laugh.

When five more of them showed up (Apparently they annoy in packs), we left. Our Sons got a big kick out of watching Mommy and Daddy that night.

Them Texas bugs get HUGH!

[Severa]

Ugh *shudder* I remember the last time these little bastards were around. Our class was on a field trip in Frankfort, KY. We had stopped for an outside picnic when we got hit with a mini-swarm. Scared the hell out of us all.

[Lael]

throughout just about all of the United States east of the Mississippi

Don't count Arizona, New Mexico, or any of the Mountain States out.

The author didn't mention it, but look at the two Species...the 17 year, and the 10 year.

Merely by the process of inspection, sometimes the 17 year, and the 13 year Climax occur in the SAME year!

Then, it is Katie Bar the Door!!!

[pgkdan]

They're expecting cicadas in Baltimore and DC this summer...we had them last year in the Roanoke Valley. My wife and I spend a week at Claytor Lake every summer and we were there right in the middle of the swarm. I had no idea they were about. We pulled in about 4:00, about the time they started to calm down every day and I didn't notice them. But the next morning we woke up to what sounded like a chainsaw in the living room of our cabin! They were that loud!! There had to be a billion of the ugly noisome creatures in the trees around the cabin. You couldn't take a walk outside without 10 or 20 of the things landing on you, getting in your hair and down you shirt. I know they fed the fish well, but I hated the damned things.

[Crazieman]

Cicadas are thick in Kansas as well, they're definitely not confined to "east of the Mississipi".

[GreenLanternCorps]

The 17 year Cicadas will be attacking Cincinnati in May. It's been nice knowing you! ;-)

[Scythian]

Breaking ...

I was just coming back from a meeting with a client (Indiana) when it hit, a swarm that is hard to describe. I heard a stange buzzing sound, quite loud actually, looked up and bang, they were all over us. A female co-worker panicked and fell into a meta bycycle rack and was injured, we ran into a nearby office building for about 20 minutes until they had moved on.

While driving back to my office WIBC reported two people in southern Indiana were actually killed by the Cicada, they had crawled into thier esophugus and they sophicated. This is all very frightening. I'm back in the office writing this to you now, our entire company is pressed up to the windows looking at the swarm, nobody is leaving the building, we'll report back soon.

Scthian out ...

[Scythian]

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