fairfarmhand Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 I have yet to see or hear a single cicada at or near my home. I wonder why? Anyone else? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommyoffive Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 Nothing yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kassia Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 My friend in Illinois has seen hundreds of shells and one living one so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraw4321 Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 We're in the peak of it in North Alabama. Ear-splitting and kinda gross. But I think we have different broods in different parts of the country. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 (edited) Cicadas live between 7 to 14 years, depending on the species, underground before emerging to mate. If above ground has changed,( like the tree they were laid on and were living under has been cut down so there is nothing to climb ) during that time then they are in trouble. Edited May 15 by Melissa in Australia 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairfarmhand Posted May 15 Author Share Posted May 15 Yeah it's weird. I see Insta posts in Nashville where there's hundreds and here, 30 minutes away there's nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 I’m pretty sure there are about a billion in the trees in my front yard (central NC). They’ve been crazy loud these last two weeks, partying like it’s 1999. The week before that, they were crawling out of the ground, new hoards every morning. This pic is a week or two ago — the ground around this tree was completely covered in piles of live cicadas and their discarded skins. They are getting slower now — I think they’ve peaked and are dying off. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jann in TX Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 Ewwww 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 22 minutes ago, fairfarmhand said: I have yet to see or hear a single cicada at or near my home. I wonder why? Anyone else? We can hear them, loudly, but do not have zillions in our actual trees. My MIL, in Franklin, has SO many!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 21 minutes ago, alisoncooks said: I’m pretty sure there are about a billion in the trees in my front yard (central NC). They’ve been crazy loud these last two weeks, partying like it’s 1999. The week before that, they were crawling out of the ground, new hoards every morning. This pic is a week or two ago — the ground around this tree was completely covered in piles of live cicadas and their discarded skins. They are getting slower now — I think they’ve peaked and are dying off. 😳😱😱 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 10 minutes ago, Jann in TX said: Ewwww Understatement! 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 56 minutes ago, Melissa in Australia said: Cicadas live between 7 to 14 years, depending on the species, underground before emerging to mate. If above ground has changed,( like the tree they were laid on and were living under has been cut down so there is nothing to climb ) during that time then they are in trouble. There are 13 and 17 yr broods overlapping here this year. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pawz4me Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 1 hour ago, fairfarmhand said: Yeah it's weird. I see Insta posts in Nashville where there's hundreds and here, 30 minutes away there's nothing. 1 hour ago, alisoncooks said: I’m pretty sure there are about a billion in the trees in my front yard (central NC). I think they must be really localized. I'm pretty sure I'm an hour or two west of @alisoncooks and we haven't seen or heard any in our yard or on our neighborhood walks (thank goodness). But people who are ten minutes away from us have posted on FB that the cicada noise is about to drive them batty. And it's not because things have changed in or around our neighborhood. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbutton Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 1 hour ago, fairfarmhand said: Yeah it's weird. I see Insta posts in Nashville where there's hundreds and here, 30 minutes away there's nothing. We live in a pocket where we get yearly cicadas (later in the summer), but everywhere around us within a 15 minute drive gets the intermittent kind in spades. It’s kind of surreal. We miss them entirely while hearing everyone’s horror stories. They are noisy! I think I would still prefer them to massive Gypsy moth invasions though—so many crawling all over, and the poop is insane. Walking under trees you can expect the poop to be like rain, and caterpillars to be dropping all over too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie G Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 Where I am in Georgia they are very loud. Constant droning. It’s super annoying. I can hear them when I’m inside my house, windows closed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athena1277 Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 I can only hear them a little outside my house, but if I walk to the far end of the street, they get louder. There’s so much farm land and new construction of neighborhoods around us that have kept them down in the immediate vicinity. The funny thing is that there are so many people from other parts of the country that have moved here in the last few years, that social media has exploded with people asking what the noise is. And the locals going crazy that everyone keeps asking. I just read the posts for laughs because they really aren’t such a big deal here where cicadas are a common occurrence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 @fairfarmhand when I saw the thread title, I thought pet shops run out of cicadas for the bearded dragons. @alisoncooks That is a lot of cicadas. At least they are a lot less harmful than locusts. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted May 15 Share Posted May 15 I like cicadas! There's a crazy one in the ditch next to my driveway. Buddy, it's mid-May, it's been below 5C overnight on and off. No one's gonna fault you for going on winter break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookbard Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 We have the years where cicadas are bad and the years you barely notice them. One year I needed ear muffs to just go out in my yard to hang out the washing. I found it interesting that you'd travel not too far, maybe an hour, and the cicadas in that place would have a different sound, a slightly different note. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 We are in the range for Brood XIII, but we haven't seen them yet. My son is a biologist studying cicadas. He will be taking a break from writing his dissertation to come back home for the emergence later this month. I think it is exciting in spite of the noise and mess. But I also like the "dog days" annual cicadas we hear every August. We live in a 60 year old subdivision, but I don't remember the last emergence being all that big around here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 Luckily we’re left out of this particular party. When we had them a few years ago, it was interesting for about a week but then the incessant noise was maddening. They were so so loud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 4 hours ago, fairfarmhand said: Yeah it's weird. I see Insta posts in Nashville where there's hundreds and here, 30 minutes away there's nothing. That's weird. I am about 45 minutes south and one of my dd another 15 minutes south of us and we are both hearing them very loudly at night. I have another dd who lives about 2 hours southwest of us, out in the country. I will have to ask her if they are hearing them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scbusf Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 Nothing yet in SE Virginia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katy Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 Haven't heard a single one. But saw a few empty shells both in my backyard and hiking while chaperoning a field trip to a local nature center. I thought it was very strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyD Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 (edited) 5 hours ago, ScoutTN said: We can hear them, loudly, but do not have zillions in our actual trees. My MIL, in Franklin, has SO many!! And we're just a few miles from you, but we have loads. Super loud and the dingbat dog is eating them like potato chips. Edited May 16 by JennyD 1 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YaelAldrich Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 5 hours ago, Pawz4me said: I think they must be really localized. I'm pretty sure I'm an hour or two west of @alisoncooks and we haven't seen or heard any in our yard or on our neighborhood walks (thank goodness). But people who are ten minutes away from us have posted on FB that the cicada noise is about to drive them batty. And it's not because things have changed in or around our neighborhood. I'm currently about an hour north of @Pawz4meand nothing although it's been raining since I got here on Tuesday afternoon. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 When we had them last we were in the thick of it but nearby neighborhoods had none. When they built my neighborhood the didn’t clear cut the trees. They just prepped what land they needed for the individual houses. In neighborhoods with more drastic ground disturbance, they didn’t get nearly the volume we did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusyMom5 Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 We live in the woods and the noise is never-ending! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pawz4me Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 But I have acres and acres (and acres) of woods right across from me. Huge old growth deciduous trees. And no cicadas. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innisfree Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 1 hour ago, KungFuPanda said: When we had them last we were in the thick of it but nearby neighborhoods had none. When they built my neighborhood the didn’t clear cut the trees. They just prepped what land they needed for the individual houses. In neighborhoods with more drastic ground disturbance, they didn’t get nearly the volume we did. Same here, but posts from others in nearby regions emphasize that the cicadas really are highly localized. We don’t have them clustering at the base of trees like in pictures above, at least not that I’ve seen. The noise is steady and remarkable, though, and I can often see one or two on our porch screens or nearby trees. The cat has taken to snacking on them, dd tells me. Right now I’m a couple of hours west, and not a sign of them. Saturday morning a couple of hours north, and not a sign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth86 Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 Not at my home, but we traveled through GA recently and they were flying in the car windows and grabbing onto us going into restaurants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 Come to my yard! They are SO LOUD! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WendyLady Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 (edited) We are in Northern Louisiana and have not seen (or heard) any cicadas yet. I have been wondering if this is normal. We moved here two years ago right at memorial day and the cicadas were going strong. I can't remember when they arrived (emerged?) last summer. I just have noticed that there is no humming yet this summer, and no skin-sheds on my porch rails. I was in St. Louis visiting my sister two weeks ago and I saw a cicada and some shedded skins, but they look like much smaller cicadas than I have seen here. Edited May 17 by WendyLady Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GailV Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 I'm in St Louis county, and we have a pretty good crop at our house. In addition to the trees, they're on the streetlamp post, covering one of the car tires (car is parked in the driveway), on the chives ... I wonder if these are all the cicadas that are sitting at the "unpopular" lunch table, while the "cool kid" cicadas are on the trees. I mean, really, a car tire? When there are several trees and shrubs close by? OTOH, I talked to someone today who lives bordering woods and former-farmland/now-subdivision, and he has none. Shout out to Skye Jethani for telling us all about "cicada rain" during the Holy Post podcast this week. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairfarmhand Posted May 16 Author Share Posted May 16 Just now, GailV said: Shout out to Skye Jethani for telling us all about "cicada rain" during the Holy Post podcast this week. I heard that! So nasty! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 Ds, a ps 10th grader, said some kid captured a bunch and turned them loose in the lunch room at school yesterday. 🙄 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Any cicada updates? They started emerging here in the Chicago burbs last weekend. We have a good amount of them, but certainly not the shovels full I remember from childhood. Ds had to change his plans to come a week early. 2 more sleeps until he arrives. They are singing their "songs of love" and it is getting pretty noisy in the late afternoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairfarmhand Posted May 24 Author Share Posted May 24 Still nothin’ in my neighborhood. Went to a nearby town (12 miles away) for a dr appointment this week and heard a few. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Lots of cicadas here in mid-Missouri. Bushes on my friend's farm are covered. And they're loud! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Lots here. Getting louder. But not tons on our particular trees. I think our trees must have more from a different brood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 The brood emergences seem to be spotty. My friends on the other side of the river in AK have tons, but we don't seem to have any more than normal on this side. OTOH, I have had more "uh, what is this snake" that turned out to be copperheads than usual this year (usually it's NEVER a copperhead-this year, it's running about 50%), and copperheads LOVE eating freshly molted cicadas. So maybe?? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pawz4me Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 Still none in my neighborhood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indigo Blue Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 2 hours ago, Pawz4me said: Still none in my neighborhood. I can’t believe it! They are everywhere I go in our area. That’s amazing you have none. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 (edited) 4 hours ago, Dmmetler said: The brood emergences seem to be spotty. My friends on the other side of the river in AK have tons, but we don't seem to have any more than normal on this side. OTOH, I have had more "uh, what is this snake" that turned out to be copperheads than usual this year (usually it's NEVER a copperhead-this year, it's running about 50%), and copperheads LOVE eating freshly molted cicadas. So maybe?? Yikes! Be careful! We have seen several snakes, but definitely not copperheads. Edited May 24 by ScoutTN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 The rain definitely stills them. Drizzly day here and the absence of the whirring is very noticeable. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommyoffive Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 4 hours ago, Pawz4me said: Still none in my neighborhood. Same Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innisfree Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 I can sit at a window, or out on the screened porch, and watch them fly from tree to tree. Not swarms of them, but one here… and then one there… and then another. And it just.keeps.on. The noise can be amazing. 6 hours ago, Dmmetler said: copperheads LOVE eating freshly molted cicadas. I’ve been wondering what would be enjoying the feast, other than apparently our cat. Probably all kinds of carnivorous or omnivorous creatures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairfarmhand Posted May 25 Author Share Posted May 25 On 5/15/2024 at 6:12 PM, Arcadia said: @fairfarmhand when I saw the thread title, I thought pet shops run out of cicadas for the bearded dragons. @alisoncooks That is a lot of cicadas. At least they are a lot less harmful than locusts. My grandparents called them locusts. They were from Georgia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 We get lots of cicadas here, but not until August. We also get lots of June bugs... They hatch near the river river and coat the street lights and sidewalks over night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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