OT: Cicadas

[will1066]

They're heeeeeere. I'm in DC, and a ton of them are on the sidewalks, leaving their shells and otherwise just hanging out. The unfortunate ones got stepped on or rolled over by people.

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[Boris Zubov]

They're heeeeeere. I'm in DC, and a ton of them are on the sidewalks, leaving their shells and otherwise just hanging out. The unfortunate ones got stepped on or rolled over by people.

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Not exactly the same, but Vegas gets a grasshopper invasion in about a month or so. Two years ago it was biblical.

 

[HockeyBasedNYC]

Yikes

 

[Off Sides]

Mind-controlling fungus makes zombie cicadas lure other cicadas to a zombie fate | Live Science

 

[nyr2k2]

I'm in MD, we have them, of course. I remember 17 years ago at my parents house there were just incomprehensible amounts and if someone was more than five feet away, they'd have to yell for you to hear them.

My neighborhood is 19 years old so most of the houses rest on plots that have been dug up in the past 17 years, so we don't have that many in our neighborhood. But right behind my house is the older neighborhood, which is starting to see a ton. I have about a half-acre and in the past two years cleared out a good chunk of it that was forested--now it's grass--and there are a ton coming out of the ground over there.

The pic is the back of my house by the basement egress. There are a few dozen molted shells. It's not much but when you consider I blasted that many off with the hose twice already this week (and that's just a very small section of the back of the house) you realize it's a lot. My house is only 15 years old so the ground was razed, I thought they'd all be gone, but obviously not LOL.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Thankfully most of us in NY won't have to deal with this infestation until 2030, i'm not looking forward to that year...

 

[will1066]

The sidewalk near my house in DC this morning.

 

[cwede]

Thankfully most of us in NY won't have to deal with this infestation until 2030, i'm not looking forward to that year...

Agreed '96 was my first (here in central/north nj), so weird, everywhere during daughter's 2nd/3rd grade softball season And '13 too, they were everywhere.
Sweeping up the shells, by the dozens, every few days.

 

[Machinehead]

At least you can see this plague unlike that covid bullshit.

 

[aufheben]

Which generation or whatever it’s called is it?

 

[aufheben]

Wow, pretty bugged.

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] It has the greatest range and concentration of any of the 17-year cicadas.

 

[aufheben]

Yo like imagine this is your f***in’ life lol

1. Fall out of tree
2. Suck tree sap underground for 17 years
3. Emerge with all your bros for...reasons
4. Become an adult 10 minutes later
5. Giant fortnight orgy
6. Die
7. Fall out of tree

 

[Brief Candle]

Kinda bummed we aren't getting them here. I think I'm of the minority, but it's peaceful to fall asleep to.

 

[Matt Rentfree]

I’d trade the plagues of bachelorette parties in Nashville for Cicadas any day.

 

[sbjnyc]

I've experienced a biblical plague of crickets at a baseball game in Texas. Not impressed by any of the pictures yet.

 

[jaywills1020]

Kinda bummed we aren't getting them here. I think I'm of the minority, but it's peaceful to fall asleep to.

What time do you go to bed? They’re usually done chirping when it gets dark.

 

[nyr2k2]

They're deafeningly loud in my backyard from around noon until dawn.

 

[Irishguy42]

Haven't heard them over here in Monmouth County yet.

 

[NYRFANMANI]

I’d trade the plagues of bachelorette parties in Nashville for Cicadas any day.

tbrh, I don't see the difference.

OT story: We don't have Cicadas here, but the practice field we used play american football on, had a june or may bug brood under it. One fateful day just after practice, they all emerged and attacked the team. Pandemonium, I tell you. They flew into helmet ear holes and everything.

 

[Unusual Suspect]

It's been pretty raucous here in Warren County, NJ, where my "neighborhood" is a wooded/agricultural mix. They seem to have arrived perhaps a week ago or more. I've found only a few shed casings and tunnels, and swept my first dead one off the deck yesterday... but the cacophony not far to the east of me is getting very loud indeed. Populations over near Spruce Run Reservoir and environs are enough that rare bird sightings seem to be more frequent as the feast emerges.

 

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[Hunter Gathers]

Wow, pretty bugged.

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] It has the greatest range and concentration of any of the 17-year cicadas.

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I am in the Brood II zone. We are just east of Brood X.

Wife and I went down to Princeton over the weekend to sell a car and also do brunch.

The sound was f***ing insane. Holy shit.

 

[Lindberg Cheese]

N Virginia here, yeah we have a couple 100k around us at all times. They are really clogging the pool skimmers but enough of my 1st world problems.