The cicadas are coming, the cicadas are coming!

[smstonypoint]

I stumbled upon this news story: US states braced for cicadas invasion as they hatch after 13 years underground | Mail Online

I haven't seen/heard any yet (in Upstate SC). How about in your neck of the woods?

Steve

 

[DennisArrow]

My wife and I got into a "discussion" about this the other day. She says that the critters that we always have that leave shell casings on trees and go rrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnrrrrrrrnnnnnnrrrrrrrnnnnnnnnrrrrrrrnnnnnnn all day and night are not the same as the critters that are supposedly coming..........

I say we have had them all along..........Some folks call them locusts but far different from the grasshopper type things that infest other locations......that are the true "locust"....

Anyway....if the critters that are here ever summer are not the same....what are they?

Or, are we just gonna get a heavy infestation of the same?

Either way.......They do their damage while in the ground eating roots and stuff.....lololol...catch a few, tie a thread to a leg and sell them to folks from the North or give them to your grand children...........God bless.....Dennis

 

[MMagis]

I would assume those are the same thing. If they're leaving the shell casing on trees, then they are the same. We have cicadas every year, it's just that we have a HUGE hatch every 17 years. If I'm not mistake, these large hatches occur in multiple places across the country every year. This year isn't anything unusual. Our last big hatch here was in the late 90s. Southwest Ohio, maybe 100 miles away, just had theirs a year or two ago. Not sure why two places fairly close to each other would have hatches so far apart.

 

[smstonypoint]

Our last big hatch here was in the late 90s. Southwest Ohio, maybe 100 miles away, just had theirs a year or two ago. Not sure why two places fairly close to each other would have hatches so far apart.

I've been doing some additional reading. Apparently there are 15 different broods (three of which are found in Ohio) that emerge in different years.

UMMZ Periodical Cicada Page

Steve

 

[dmccarty]

They are at my place. Very loud but I have not seen them. Other people are seeing them but I have not seen them at all.

I did notice a few weeks ago that at night I would hear "rustling" in the leaves in the woods. I think that was them emerging from the ground.

I THOUGHT that they eat leaves but apparently not. I could have sworn that is what I read. I was looking for the Cicadas yesterday and the only thing I noticed was the badly chewed up oak leaves. No sign of what has been feasting on the leaves either.

Later,
Dan

 

[czechsonofagun]

Heat up the oil in the frying pan :thumbsup:

 

[Damifino]

Heat up the oil in the frying pan :thumbsup:

YouTube - Cooking and eating cicadas

 

[Richard]

Yep, seem to be in my area too. I've found several shells stuck to my house.

You can walk outside, I think primarily in the morning (?) and hear a distinct "rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" coming from everywhere.

This sound is something that strikes me as coming from a 1950's sci-fi movie and it would have been the soundtrack for the martians. I actually wonder if a sound man recorded these sounds back then and that's what they used them for.

 

[DennisArrow]

They are at my place. Very loud but I have not seen them. Other people are seeing them but I have not seen them at all.


I THOUGHT that they eat leaves but apparently not. I could have sworn that is what I read. I was looking for the Cicadas yesterday and the only thing I noticed was the badly chewed up oak leaves. No sign of what has been feasting on the leaves either.

Later,
Dan

What is eating the leaves here in NW Ga and probably over your way is the spring canker worm or perhaps the fall canker worm..........to most, known as the inch worm.........We are having real problems for the 2nd year now with trees losing at least 50 to up to 80 or so percent of leaves...........

For me, the little black crap specks all over the deck....hard tiny balls...........and then the catepillars dangling by their webs of all over everything........BAD stuff..........

Totally destroyed my apple trees last year......this year am on top of those but nothing one can do with the 30 acres of old growth hickory and oak that are being cleaned out...............If it isnt tornados knocking em down it is the bugs eating them up and killing them................Bible prophecies anyone???????............God bless.......Dennis

 

[woodchuckie]

We've had them in West Alabama for a week now. We can hear them everywhere. I remember the last time we had them several years ago. I think the noise was louder then.