Mr. Windcredible! Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Brood II set to emerge towards the end of the month into early June. Already some reports from North Carolina up to NJ/NYC...and even as far north as North Haven just a day or two ago. Emergence should really get going as soil temperatures get up to around 64 degrees. Tough to say just how widespread they'll be up this way, but there seemed to be a pretty good concentration of reports last emergence in CT generally along the I-91 corridor. Not much a bug fan myself...but there is something strangely fascinating about periodical cicadas. I kinda secretly would love to be in the jackpot zone. I was really interested in the Brood X emergence several years back...but the only experience I had with that one was driving through a swarm of them along I-95 in Baltimore as I was passing through. They were littered along the highway. I did see the other day what looked like a shell...but not realizing we had an emergence this year I didn't dwell on it or look closer to confirm. Anyway...here's a link to a map to track reports, and a map of confirmed reports from past emergences... http://magicicada.org/databases/magicicada/map.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Ugh. Not a fan. I'm dreading these things. Poor Wiz is going to have a mental breakdown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Windcredible! Posted May 4, 2013 Author Share Posted May 4, 2013 Ugh. Not a fan. I'm dreading these things. Poor Wiz is going to have a mental breakdown. What's not to like? Just hope your channel doesn't send you to report from some party where wierdos eat these things! As for wiz...I'll consider this emergence a failure if he doesn't have a mental breakdown over these things at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 I will hide under my bed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmanmitch Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 I think I'm a bit too high in elevation for cicadas here, but I remember them vividly from my days in lower Fairfield County. I can recall being on the Merritt Parkway at night during the 1996 brood and numerous big splats on the windshield from hitting these living helicopters at 60-70 MPH. Disgusting and interesting at the same time...went through a lot of washer fluid and car washes that year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 are they nutritious? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/05/0503_040503_cicadafeast.html Cicada salad, anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Very few Cicada's around here in recent years, probably due to extensive new developemnet right where I live. My Dad in Enfield has alot more of these delightful pests than do I. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/05/0503_040503_cicadafeast.html Cicada salad, anyone? Colonialists ate them. That's funny as they refused to eat lobster's (not that I blame them). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Colonialists ate them. That's funny as they refused to eat lobster's (not that I blame them). That is funny, if true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 That is funny, if true. The lobster part is true.... in maritime Canada, the only people who ate lobster were prisoners... We encountered cicadas while camping in Mashpee, MA in the mid to late 1970s...awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Good site about broods in Mass: http://www.masscic.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 You say cicada; I say Secada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 You say cicada; I say Secada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 Are these such a big deal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 Are these such a big deal? Being in or close to a jackpot zone of them is like have 10000 newborn babies...you will never be able to sleep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 Fish bait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 saw nymphs here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 Being in or close to a jackpot zone of them is like have 10000 newborn babies...you will never be able to sleep I'd rather have them mate on my tongue than deal with mosquitoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 saw nymphs hereYou back in college? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Windcredible! Posted May 5, 2013 Author Share Posted May 5, 2013 Are these such a big deal? Only if they're swarming right outside your house. If this brood is anything like brood X back in the MA in 2004, the swarms are very spotty. They can be swarming like the plague in one spot...with absolutely no sign of them a few hundred feet away (other than the noise). Like I said, I was driving along I-95 north of Baltimore in 2004, and went through about a 1/4 mile-1/2 mile stretch of the highway and they were swarming through the air and covering the shoulder of the highway. You could hear them with the windows up, going 75 mph along the highway. But for the most part, they are no big deal. Just interesting to observe and hear. Growing up for a couple years in Tennessee and even in Pittsburgh, we occasionally had Cicadas. Their song is something I equate with summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 I'd rather have them mate on my tongue than deal with mosquitoes.Dry weather benefits, no squitos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 Are these such a big deal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 Gypsy moths are worse. Cicadas are cool to fall asleep in the summer to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 I'd rather have them mate on my tongue than deal with mosquitoes. Long shirt, long pants, and strong bug spray and no mos bites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 I guess I just never really heard much of them. Agree with Ginx, gypsy moths are worse here...they destroy tree canopies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 I guess I just never really heard much of them. Agree with Ginx, gypsy moths are worse here...they destroy tree canopies. you're not inside magicicada's range Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 Dry weather benefits, no squitos Unfortunately for me the black flies are terrible up here right now. I can't remember this many of them being this hungry this early. It's impossible to do anything outside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 When you couple the Cicada swarm with the crippling drought, many folks around here will think it's end days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 When you couple the Cicada swarm with the crippling drought, many folks around here will think it's end days. Thankfully this drought has been so epic it has driven Kevin off the board in search of water. Hopefully it doesn't rain again til 2014! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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