Stormfly Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 If you want to see them coming out of the ground night time is the time! Checked the trees, oaks and maples seem to have the most. The trees sound alive! They are ascending the trunks like armies. It's definitely going to be getting louder! Also can't believe the number of stag (beetles), slugs and earthworms out on this dry night. Firefly numbers going up too. The woods is alive! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillvilleWx Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 I'll be home in mid-June. Hopefully I get to take in part of the festivities towards the back end of the peak. I find them fascinating 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillvilleWx Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 Anyone gonna try to put out a MCD (Mesoscale Cicada Discussion)? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 Millions of dead cicadas are starting to....smell. Theres a funk when you step outside IMBY 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlizzardNole Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 I have three 40-50 foot maples in my back yard and my next-door neighbor has a 50-foot pin oak. I have no cicadas while they have shells all over the trunk of that tree, their deck, fence, etc. I also sat out yesterday and saw cicadas flying towards their tree one after another, like it was an airport. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 Cicadas everywhere. Love this. Next time this happens, I'll be as old as @H2O 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 On 5/24/2021 at 11:34 AM, Eskimo Joe said: Cicadas everywhere. Love this. Next time this happens, I'll be as old as @H2O Expand Oh, Lordy. I've been trying to enjoy this emergence and delay thinking what you've written here. Let's just say that the next time Brood X emerges, I'll be well north of the minimum age for Social Security. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 On 5/24/2021 at 11:34 AM, Eskimo Joe said: Cicadas everywhere. Love this. Next time this happens, I'll be as old as @H2O Expand hahahahahaha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 On 5/24/2021 at 11:34 AM, Eskimo Joe said: Cicadas everywhere. Love this. Next time this happens, I'll be as old as @H2O Expand I got at LEAST two more times left 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 On 5/24/2021 at 11:34 AM, Eskimo Joe said: Cicadas everywhere. Love this. Next time this happens, I'll be as old as @H2O Expand Doesn't he have an article he co-authored with Ben Franklin documenting one of the first recorded emergences? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 On 5/24/2021 at 12:24 PM, Always in Zugzwang said: Doesn't he have an article he co-authored with Ben Franklin documenting one of the first recorded emergences? Expand No. Earlier than that. I was part of the Jamestown settlement and we discovered them back then. It was a food source during the lean years. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 On 5/24/2021 at 12:45 PM, H2O said: No. Earlier than that. I was part of the Jamestown settlement and we discovered them back then. It was a food source during the lean years. Expand Oh yeah..."Plague of Ye Olde Broode X Locusts"! They still thought they were locusts back then, caused by witchcraft. You're lucky you didn't get burned as a heretic! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 On 5/24/2021 at 1:12 PM, Always in Zugzwang said: Oh yeah..."Plague of Ye Olde Broode X Locusts"! They still thought they were locusts back then, caused by witchcraft. You're lucky you didn't get burned as a heretic! Expand On 5/24/2021 at 1:21 PM, mappy said: lol Expand I actually tried to document them in my cave drawings when we first discovered fire. Oog was scared of them and fell off the cliff when one landed on him. We fashioned jewelry from the shells and it was a form of currency. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 The rain really shut them up this morning. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 On 5/24/2021 at 4:17 PM, MN Transplant said: The rain really shut them up this morning. Expand yup. didnt hear the hum this morning at all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rclab Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 On 5/24/2021 at 12:45 PM, H2O said: No. Earlier than that. I was part of the Jamestown settlement and we discovered them back then. It was a food source during the lean years. Expand On 5/24/2021 at 1:32 PM, H2O said: I actually tried to document them in my cave drawings when we first discovered fire. Oog was scared of them and fell off the cliff when one landed on him. We fashioned jewelry from the shells and it was a form of currency. Expand Quite a history, H2O. All those years, never aging, forever young. Have a care, I believe PhineasC knows Van Helsing. As always .... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowenOutThere Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 On 5/24/2021 at 4:17 PM, MN Transplant said: The rain really shut them up this morning. Expand I think a lot of the cicadas have never seen rain. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 On 5/24/2021 at 5:13 PM, SnowenOutThere said: I think a lot of the cicadas have never seen rain. Expand Don’t get too cocky. I think they are older than you. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceFrederickWx Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 We need Brood X in southern Maryland- I'm thinking of bringing a crate of these back to become squirrel food populate my yard for 2038. I need to head out to Illinois for spring 2024- they're in the eclipse totality path, then they have brood XIII and XIX syncing up for the first time in 221 years. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlizzardNole Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 We're visiting family a couple miles north of Huntingtown on Monday. Should I bring a box of 'em? 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowenOutThere Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 On 5/24/2021 at 7:52 PM, nw baltimore wx said: Don’t get too cocky. I think they are older than you. Expand You're right I need to respect my elders. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormfly Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 Temp hasn't moved much but it has gotten considerably brighter in the past 15 minutes. Went from no noise to considerable humming. Seems like they are quite sensitive to light. Once insolation gets over 350W/m^2 the noise picks up noticeably. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 The hum has returned 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 On 5/25/2021 at 3:11 PM, mappy said: The hum has returned Expand Yeah, after they were relatively quiet yesterday with the rain (though I did hear a little at times), they've returned in force today. I guess it's more rain than temperature that curbs their activity. I also saw a lot of emerging nymphs still coming up through the grass near a couple of trees last night. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 So far I haven’t been able to really hear the cicadas while sitting in the office. Today it’s much louder. I bet home will be deafening 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 It's so loud today. And seeing lots flying around the yard. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baltimorewx Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 They must not like the soil east of the fall line...I have not seen any, but I havent been on a hunt for them either 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 Really loud today in my yard. Like hard to have a conversation outside loud. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 It is stupid loud outside. Loudest since they started singing 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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