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Springtime Synphony

Kachina624 — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 04:53:49 GMT

There will be a epic emergence of billions of Brood X cicadas this spring when the ground reaches 64°F. They've been burrowed in the ground for the past 17 years and will emerge to create a huge cacophony of song, at least it's music to them.

Brood X is among the largest broods of cicadas. ... Brood X (10) will emerge in the spring of 2021 in Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York (extinct or nearly so), Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington D.C.

Enjoy your brush with nature! The ghost of 2020 prevails.

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froggy — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 04:56:53 GMT

LOL. I have sometimes wondered if katydids have a similar cycle. The first year we lived in Rhode Island (1999) they were so loud at night - we had a forest right behind us - we couldn't hear ourselves think, even with the windows closed. Never happened again for the final three years we lived there.

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Desertdi — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 06:28:27 GMT

@Kachina624 I definitely WILL NOT be taking the "Spectator Tour"

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January121 — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 07:43:39 GMT

@Kachina624 OMG !!!! .... what’s next? ..... I hate these things ... they are so ugly & make so much noise plus when you go outside they fly right into you & cling to your clothes ..... I am now positive that we are approaching the end of the world!!!!

I have to ask ...when you listed the states that will get them next to New York you indicated (extinct or nearly so) ... does that mean NY might not get too many?

Thanks so much😉

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on the bay — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 08:15:00 GMT

You know I will never forget the time I remembered the flying through the air locusts and my kids and I eventually thinking well I guess this is just normal, for this summer!

But to see you mention this now, as much as it was like out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie back then, it makes me cry to think of how back then we were not experiencing anything at all to what we are now.

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cotton4me — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 10:29:16 GMT

I remember when they came out when I was in high school. I lived close enough to walk to school. They would be all over the sidewalks and fly up at me when I tried to walk past them. I was so upset that my mother began driving me to school. Not looking forward to their presence.

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SouthernBee — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 11:16:24 GMT

@Kachina624 : Oh no please and my state is included 😳

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itsmagic — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 11:31:08 GMT

I have good memories of cicadas as a kid going on hunts looking for their shells that they shed on trees. Now I like to listen to them “sing” in the evening in the late summer. I guess if I had them flying at me I wouldn’t like them but I haven’t experienced that.

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goldensrbest — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 12:13:17 GMT

@itsmagic wrote:
I have good memories of cicadas as a kid going on hunts looking for their shells that they shed on trees. Now I like to listen to them “sing” in the evening in the late summer. I guess if I had them flying at me I wouldn’t like them but I haven’t experienced that.

As kids we did the same thing.

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Spurt — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 13:30:20 GMT

@Kachina624

WHEW!!! You mean Texas missed having those "beauties" in our wonderful State 😊.... Of course we have our regular cicadas.....they are enough to drive you crazy with their "song".....These come out in the summer and it usally means its hotter than heck!

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Puppy Lips — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 13:38:24 GMT

Well that is at least one bug that Florida does not have. I do remember them in Ohio though.

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Eileen in Virginia — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 14:39:48 GMT

Oh nuts, I hate those guys! Even though they don't bite, they look so menacing.

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Kachina624 — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 17:59:48 GMT

@January121 wrote:
@Kachina624 OMG !!!! .... what’s next? ..... I hate these things ... they are so ugly & make so much noise plus when you go outside they fly right into you & cling to your clothes ..... I am now positive that we are approaching the end of the world!!!!

I have to ask ...when you listed the states that will get them next to New York you indicated (extinct or nearly so) ... does that mean NY might not get too many?
Thanks so much😉

@January121 I copied a portion of that but assumed thats what they were inferring. If you live there, you can report back to us.

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Kachina624 — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 18:06:25 GMT

@Spurt wrote:

@Kachina624

WHEW!!! You mean Texas missed having those "beauties" in our wonderful State 😊.... Of course we have our regular cicadas.....they are enough to drive you crazy with their "song".....These come out in the summer and it usally means its hotter than heck!

@Spurt. Hot summer afternoons in Texas just naturally go with cicadas. Sometimes they are deafening. I don't ever hear or see evidence of them here in NM.

Some people may be hearing katydids which are a different but similar insect.

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Lali1 — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 18:13:23 GMT

@itsmagic wrote:
I have good memories of cicadas as a kid going on hunts looking for their shells that they shed on trees. Now I like to listen to them “sing” in the evening in the late summer. I guess if I had them flying at me I wouldn’t like them but I haven’t experienced that.

Same for me. They remind me of summer as a child which was pretty much all year. But to me they look different from what is pictured in the op's message.

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Lali1 — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 18:15:31 GMT

@Spurt wrote:

@Kachina624

WHEW!!! You mean Texas missed having those "beauties" in our wonderful State 😊.... Of course we have our regular cicadas.....they are enough to drive you crazy with their "song".....These come out in the summer and it usally means its hotter than heck!

In Texas these are what I knew as locusts. Come to find out that isn't really what they are. No matter that is what they'll always be to me.

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January121 — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 22:01:35 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@January121 wrote:
@Kachina624 OMG !!!! .... what’s next? ..... I hate these things ... they are so ugly & make so much noise plus when you go outside they fly right into you & cling to your clothes ..... I am now positive that we are approaching the end of the world!!!!

I have to ask ...when you listed the states that will get them next to New York you indicated (extinct or nearly so) ... does that mean NY might not get too many?
Thanks so much😉
@January121 I copied a portion of that but assumed thats what they were inferring. If you live there, you can report back to us.

@Kachina624 .... THANKS .... I guess I have to wait until the warm weather arrives.... I’ll give an update then 😃

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Spurt — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 22:19:41 GMT

@Lali1 wrote:
@Spurt wrote:

@Kachina624

WHEW!!! You mean Texas missed having those "beauties" in our wonderful State 😊.... Of course we have our regular cicadas.....they are enough to drive you crazy with their "song".....These come out in the summer and it usally means its hotter than heck!

In Texas these are what I knew as locusts. Come to find out that isn't really what they are. No matter that is what they'll always be to me.

@Lali1

Locusts look more like grasshoppers...

Here's a katydid...

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Nataliesgramma — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:21:49 GMT

Maybe they'll eat the murder honets....LOL

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Villagesbabe — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 02:33:15 GMT

Ah yes, remember them well in MD. They can be deafening! Living in Florida so no more visits. Do you know people eat them? Yuk!