Are you looking forward to the emergence of Brood X, 17 year cicadas this year?

We had them in 2016. It can be deafening at times. I didn’t find it magical or musical. They were all over my window screens and outdoor furniture. We won’t see/hear them this year.

I’m delighted to not be in their path, according to your map. We’ve already had about 9 of the 10 plagues this year – don’t need this other one!

We have Brood XIII, coming in 2024. In 2007 a friend’s kid asked me on the phone what it would be like (he lived elsewhere). I said I’d try to get a picture. One day I was driving through a forest preserve with trees filled with cicadas. I called them so they could hear how loud it was. But in my car, with my windows rolled up, the sound was so intense that they could not hear me speak. They had no idea what the call was, it sounded to them like some kind of electrical storm on the cell network.

For some reason I don’t remember them plastering my car or covering the roads. I guess they stayed in the comfy trees.

I experienced them in 1967 in northern Nevada. They always show up every year, but not in such large numbers.

Okay, I am confused.
Today I read that these guys only come out every seventeen years.
From these answers I understand that they come every year?
What gives?

I have been brooding about this for months.

The experts say that NE Georgia (where I live) should be seeing them emerge any time now. I don’t mind the sound; in an eerie sort of way, it’s comforting.

What I don’t like is driving and having them commit suicide on my windshield. They are big suckers, too.

from the Atlanta newspaper

@rebbel Apparently, different groups or “broods” emerge from their 13 or 17 year cycle each year.

I love them and I do find the sound very comforting. Puts me right to sleep. Missouri.

I lived through the 17 year Cicada when I was growing up in Maryland and I am very happy to miss it this time around. It is awful. They are everywhere. It is no mystery why it might be seen as a sign of the end of the world.

I don’t know if certain Cicada groups have more numbers than others, but whatever hits the DC suburbs is crazy large, and I am pretty sure this year will be in the DC area.

Yes, they cover your windshield, They are all over everywhere. You can drive. It is when you first come to your car when the car has been parked outside. I vaguely remember trying to avoid parking under trees.

We have crickets who chirp all night every summer but I don’t remember cicadas. New Jersey

I love those crazy, little space aliens! Northern Virginia.

The last time I dealt with them en masse, it was a Brood 2 event when I was a child. I thought it was sooooo cool! They were giant, they were crunchy (ew), they were everywhere! they really freaked the hell out of our moms, and they were LOUD. When they were here in 2013, there weren’t really any colonies in our little part of CT, and I was kind of disappointed.

I’ve been reading more about them and now I definitely have to take a road trip!

LOL. Where will you go? Pennsylvania?

I’m guessing PA. It’s only 5–6 hours or so.
Spend the night somewhere and listen to the magic.

I was in elementary school. We would sneak tiny pots of red paint onto the playground and put a dot on each one’s head, looked like a third eye. It was a great way to freak out the other kids.

@LuckyGuy take some paint. ;-)

I can mark some with UV dye – or yellow highlighter. They would glow under UV! :-)

Fun With Bugs!!!

Didn’t check the map. We had them in Maryland last time they showed up. I took videos of them covering the house. Might do it again.

^^You just made me realize my parents are going to have to deal with it. I talked above about dealing with it growing up, but failed to think about the fact that my parents are still there.

My mother likes to walk every day. Not fun.

^^Made me think will I still be here next time they show up? :)

I looked at the map. I’m in the red zone, so no cicadas for us this year.

@mazingerz88 Maybe you will be retired in Florida where we have little lizards everywhere not cicadas.

^^Oh no. Right now I don’t think so. Just saw a video of this huge alligator suddenly showing up outside the front door of a Forida home!

The last time that cicada horde was here I barbecued outside every weekend. The only inconvenience I remember getting was flicking them off from the back door’s handle.

I didn’t mind the noise and the icky clustering. I don’t think I can handle alligators just suddenly walking into the yard. Nope.

A different map I saw showed them coming to my area. Maybe you want to visit me @LuckyGuy?

They’re not like locusts, flying around. The ones I saw just sat on tree branches, making noise.

And they are edible! Recipes for cicada’s

I’ll pack the Teriyaki sauce.