We had a bunch of those come out last year, they're not due here until 2024. I remember them in 1990 & 2007. They were definitely the 17 year ones (red eyes) and opposed to the annual variety. They looked a little small too.

It looks from the map, like we are in the Northern Most county in Ohio that will be getting the brood this year.

This was novel and interesting at first, but I'm getting tired of it - and we've got weeks of the cicada invasion left to endure. We have to take a leaf blower to the patio to clear it off before we let the dogs out. One of them has already gotten sick eating them in spite of our best efforts to avoid it.
People complain about the sound, but being someone with tinnitus, the sound doesn't bother me. I'm used to it.

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This is the scene all over the place. I'm not saying every plant looks like this, but you don't have to walk far to find one.


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Several times a day I go out and shake the cicadas off of the cypress trees I planted last fall, but the cicadas are still killing them.

As a resident of Oregon, we have nothing like this.

My brain goes immediately to the biblical swarm of locusts. Same thing?

I'd lend you my cat if I could. He loves hunting them.

I think biblical locusts were more like grasshoppers and ate everything in their paths and were a threat to the human food chain. These cicadas live on the sap from plants, mostly trees. Young trees can be damaged pretty badly. Large trees don't seem to mind.

If the map is correct I'm good until 2030.

Brood 4 has an area just NW of me in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. Last time they had the big hatch (hatch?) I was fishing a small lake on the refuge. Every bass I caught was gorged full of those things.

I cut the grass yesterday and looked on some of my trees and saw 5 or 6 shells on each tree.....Like my grass.....the Cicadas probably don't do well with all the clay and rock that seems to be everywhere.

Video of CNN reporter and cicada "interaction ". Lol

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2021/05/28/cnn-reporter-manu-raju-cicada-eg-orig.cnn

We have yearly cicadas but not overwhelming masses of them. Our dogs love to gobble them up like the greatest dog treat ever. Last week I was digging in the fringes of our compost pile and dug up three large grubs that were close to crawling out of the ground. I tossed them to our dogs. The female dachshund sniffed them and passed. The male dachshund though they were delicious.

The yearly cicadas are coming out now to add to the din. The temps only got into the 70s last week and cicada activity was low. I was thinking maybe we were through it. NO! It's approaching 90 every day now and the cicada noise and presence is maddening. We discovered that they like garden machinery. As soon as I start the tractor or rototiller they begin to swarm around me. In minutes they are flying into my face, stuck to my clothes, in my shirt, in my hair - dozens of them everywhere. A few days ago I took some water out to MrsWD while she was mowing and she must of had 30 of them stuck to her back and hat. She has taken to mowing the lawn at night because of them.

Some are beginning to die off and collect on the ground. So we have the stench of millions of rotting bugs to contend with also.

Now they are attaching themselves to my apple trees. :mad::mad::mad:

I'm ready to be over this.

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Wow, I have been plenty of places with them, but never been through anything like Brood X. I just missed a big one (not sure if it was X or one of the others) when I was in college and my parents were in NoVA. I wish I'd experienced it at least once.

Saw a sign at a tire store:
"Squeaking brakes are the mating call for Cicadas"

add a little garlic and butter......

Those are YUGE!

Seems like they're starting to die off up this way. Found this picture on Reddit this weekend.

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That's going to reek if it doesn't already!