Scarlet Pimpernel Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 7 minutes ago, mappy said: what a weird turn this thread has taken Yeah, we're down to cicada pee! But hey, not much different or weirder than some of the storm threads during winter!!! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 10 minutes ago, mappy said: what a weird turn this thread has taken I'd rather have this than the arguing in banter. Can't wait to turn the music down in the car and listen to their sound when driving. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 1 minute ago, H2O said: I'd rather have this than the arguing in banter. Can't wait to turn the music down in the car and listen to their sound when driving. lol i see your trolling 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormfly Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 I see they have the small trees covered along Putty Hill Ave in front of the high school. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthArlington101 Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 Family up in Arlington reporting that they are starting to emerge on a few streets. Creepy buggers. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 Just took a short walk into the woods by my parent's house (Northwest Branch Unit #4) and couldn't find a single trace of cicada activity other than a few sporadic holes. I don't remember if 2004 was so splotchy with the early emergence. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 Had birds in our yard fighting over the few cicadas this morning. Little do they know the feast that is incoming. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GATECH Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 First kill for ole Thunder. One cicada down, billions to go... 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 6 minutes ago, MN Transplant said: Had birds in our yard fighting over the few cicadas this morning. Little do they know the feast that is incoming. The early cicadas are the appetizer!! Haven't seen any actual cicadas yet so far, but several empty shells around a couple of trees. And in this wooded area across the street from me, there were a TON of holes and turrets, littered all over the ground. I guess they're waiting a bit before coming out, when it gets a bit warmer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 Saw my first live ones just now while out on a walk . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeguyfromTakomaPark Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 Where are they? I'm getting impatient here....I hope this isn't like a DC snowstorm hahaha. Supposed to get 1 million per acre and we end up with just cicada TV. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 Just saw some on the tree I checked two days ago. Just the shells. Hoping for more 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LP08 Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 Son was able to collect double digits and bring them home. A noticeable uptick from previous days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 8 hours ago, H2O said: I've got 3 kids. I've been peed bodily-fluid-ed on plenty. Cicada pee ain't nothing FIFY. I have been (with only 2), and know you have been, too. 3 hours ago, GATECH said: First kill for ole Thunder. One cicada down, billions to go... OMG. I had to go out and reprimand my own yellow Lab this afternoon for circling the big-ass oak tree and slurping up God knows how many dozens of cicada nymphs and adults for 30 minutes straight. She's such a hog. The first night she discovered them around the tree (about 4-5 days ago), she gorged herself and (to @Kmlwx's point several weeks ago), promptly emptied the contents of her stomach because of it. Thought I'd have to get out the Elizabethan dog collar, but she's listened to me the rest of the afternoon. Until tomorrow. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 10 hours ago, vastateofmind said: The first 20 feet of trunk on my backyard oak up to the first big branches -- where I captured my posted pics/video earlier this week -- were thick with nymphs and emerging adults last evening just after dark, too many to count. That whole side of the yard (the oak is in the back corner of my property) was rustling with countless nymphs making a beeline for the oak, the fences, the shed, anywhere they could get at least some elevation. I even saw a handful of oh-eff-it nymphs starting their molts at the top of some tall dandelion stems. If you got down low to look across the grass, you could see it "moving" in spots...eerie. I'm thinking we might actually start hearing these guys next week? Oh, and just for you, @gunny23 & @mattie g -- let's just say I'm going to be a little more careful about walking under my backyard oak in another week or so. (In fairness, this video is of cicada Chremistica umbrosa of South-East Asia...our Brood X periodic cicadas apparently aren't this incontinent.) OMG thank you, I’m sharing this with a few friends of mine. It will scare the crap out of them. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCAsnowhole Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 Front yard filled with emerging nymphs tonight in McLean- appears as if parts of lawn are moving. Definitely looks to be a pickup from the past few nights of limited activity. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 Here they come! Emerging cicadas this evening... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stemwinder Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 Saw several nymphs this evening here in West Windsor NJ. Get ready. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCAsnowhole Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 They're here in McLean! 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 Still nothing here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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North Balti Zen Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 9 hours ago, nw baltimore wx said: Still nothing here. Co-signed. What’s going on with that? There’s reports of emergence north of us too.. i can’t even find one.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harv_poor Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 From the north, in a walk with my grandkids around our new community we checked trees and saw about five shells. However, later when my grandson went exploring he found one tree with many. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harv_poor Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 This is from Lutherville-Timonium, not Wolftrap. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 I’ll bet I see a lot this evening. I’m ready! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 Saw more today. My youngest even let one crawl on her hand 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 went to plainsboro preserve in central nj and only saw holes and a few nymphs under logs. need another week or so up here 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 1 hour ago, H2O said: Saw more today. My youngest even let one crawl on her hand They grossed me out 17 some years ago...I never killed any but avoided them like Randy did/does. And yeah, I've let FIVE crawl all over my hands today. They're basically a ladybug....with pterodactyl-sized wings and blood-curdling giant red eyes. Actually, the ones I held today were perfectly content to hang out on my fingers or hand...my previous experience with cicadas is that they fled us giant beings with great effort. They're humorously clumsy. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeguyfromTakomaPark Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 Ok there’s lots of cicadas now of all of sudden. Not a bust. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Balti Zen Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 Full blown bust in my part of Balt City. Cicada cancel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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