Scarlet Pimpernel

Doesn't he have an article he co-authored with Ben Franklin documenting one of the first recorded emergences?

Spinal Tap cicadas! One louder!!

Pretty loud here today. I can distinctly hear the differences between two of the species in some places...kinda cool (I think the "hissing" sound is magicicada cassini, and the more common "phaaa-rohhh" is septendecim?). Saw a funny bit of graffiti while out for a walk, going under one of these bridges along a trail. It said "F**K CICADAS!" I guess whomever wrote that isn't a fan!

Haha...free Scooby snacks!! I've seen birds occasionally dive-bombing or plucking things off the ground, too. Maybe the squashed or dead ones on the sidewalk are fast food! Steady din of cicadas here, not so much right in my yard but all around and it's louder (Audubon Nature Center very nearby me, they're all over and humming up a storm). Interesting that I've seen so many coming out on trees around my place but I don't (yet) hear any in those same trees. Maybe they just flew off. I'm sure not all were eaten, there were so many. Like @WxUSAF mentioned, I've also noticed that in some "deeper woods" they aren't out yet, but I have seen indications on the "edges" of there in the past day. I'd have to imagine there are a ton in those relatively undisturbed old-wood regions. And like @H2O, I've noticed many new ones coming out on several nights, even on the same trees.

Reminds me of a joke I heard some time ago: What's the last thing to come to a bug's mind when it hits your windshield?? Its ass!

Cult? Cult?!!!! What are you saying! We worship snow and cicadas and have unusual rituals/superstitions about storm threads so....oh, wait a minute, nevermind!!

"Vintage", I believe is the correct word here!! Like a wine...

It's serious now. Trees have caved!

This must be one of the lost commandments on the 3rd tablet that Moses (errrrr, Mel Brooks!) dropped in "History of the World"!!

This year we get "treated" to both, of course!! I actually don't mind the annual ones so much. At least the ones that have that sort of rapid whirring sound like shaking maracas (like a "ch-ch-ch-ch-chhhh"). But there is one kind that has sort of an annoying buzzing that sounds almost electrical which is not as pleasant.

Definitely hearing them clearly...the "chorus" is closer to me and louder now (is the "cicadar" filling in??? ). Don't have to strain the ears to hear them, LOL! I walked over to the Audubon Nature Center (not far from me), and they are all over the place there as one might expect. Several trees coated with shells and very audible. I know there are 3 "magicicada" species (septendecim, septendecula, and cassini), with the septendecim I guess being the most common and loudest with the "Phaaa-rohhhh" sound. In one tree at the Audubon center, I was able to clearly hear the cassini ones too, with the "hissing" sound. Got some photos, here are a couple:

Same here, can definitely hear them closer in now, a steady din that comes and goes. At least we're not seeing these flying around...

Crunchy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside!!

LOL!! Could always threaten people with that gelled spaghetti-o and wiener dish. Or just make it your birthday cake!!

Everyone get off @H2O's lawn, before he yells at you to leave!! He might sic the cicadas on you!

Interesting. I wonder if they are very sensitive to precise soil temperatures too. So if it's just warm enough a mile away where your daughter's school is, they are coming out...but your place is maybe just below the threshold still? Something like that. Or if it's been fairly undisturbed there in the past 17 years. Where I am, I saw a lot come out on like 2 or 3 large trees, over the course of a few nights. But this wooded area just across the street, which is pretty undisturbed...nothing, despite noticing a LOT of holes in the ground. Then suddenly last night, they were coming out in that wooded area all over the place. I can only guess that it was a hair cooler there until now (with a couple of very warm days). And those emerging looked to have become more widespread in the area I'm at last night (but that's a subjective take).

Oh my...I had forgotten (since last year) that today was @H2O's birthday! Happy birthday to you, enjoy celebrating whatever anniversary of your 29th this may be!!

It's very odd how they seem to all come out in one place but not another. I guess it depends on where the eggs were laid in 2004, among other things. They also seem to come up at different times, even places very close to each other.

OMG...so sorry to hear that! I hope your dad will be OK...

So that small wooded area across the street from me apparently got warm enough over the past couple of days. After no indication of anything other than a lot of holes for awhile, they are now coming out in droves there (see images). Also seeing widespread nymphs emerging around several trees where I am. Pretty certain I heard them singing late this afternoon too.

I heard some about this, too...really weird! A fungus that turns you into a sex crazed zombie!! Sounds like a bad 1950s B-rated sci-fi flick that @ravensrule might recommend!

Well, you do know that the Enterprise-D ran on cicada juice, right?! Billions of them living in the warp drives! (ETA: They worked better than tribbles! )

Same here...there's a lot of nearby construction going on and at times I swear I hear what must be distant singing of the cicadas when some of the "construction noise" is lesser. But hard to tell. Can't tell how far away it is, but imagine they'll get right up nearby soon.

Pretty certain I heard at least one yesterday afternoon. Had the classic "Phaaaa-rooooh" sound. But not much else other than that. Maybe they're tuning up here! Or maybe that one was more like singing "Diiii-nnner!" to all the birds and was gone shortly after!! I've seen a lot of picked-at "meals" left on the ground that's for sure! Seen many emerging right around the apartment property I live at, but surprisingly not so much as an exoskeleton seen in a couple of older and undisturbed wooded areas. If anything, I'd think there'd be a ton in there. Maybe still relatively too cool there, but I'm sure this week it will be warming up.

And it's one of the best parodies I've seen! Even down to the equivalent of hard-core "Trekkies" at those Sci Fi conventions!