Violentweatherfan Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 Oh, by the way you all enjoy the stink when they did off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
09-10 analogy Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 8 hours ago, wxtrix said: i lived 2 blocks from the park in 2004. it sounded like a spaceship army had landed as you walked past it. Doesn’t make sense, I know. Maybe all the cicadas there were in therapy or something at that time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
09-10 analogy Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 1 minute ago, wxtrix said: maybe it’s not warm enough yet in the park? we’re just getting going in my backyard. Could be. It’s a pretty thick canopy, soil temps might be cooler. I love that park. Everyone talks about Rock Creek, which is wonderful, but Glover Archibald is NW’s little secret. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 Finally. Shells on a maple today It's the farthest tree from the river and the sandiest soil...Nothing elsewhere so far. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 Lots of new guys extending their wings when i went to the gym at 545. Party is still in the early stages. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowfan Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 24 minutes ago, WxUSAF said: Lots of new guys extending their wings when i went to the gym at 545. Party is still in the early stages. This. On my walk this morning I saw many freshly molted cadas. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 Last couple days I've seen a lot more brave souls making desperate attempts to fly across roads to get to the other side. Thoughts and prayers to them 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 1 hour ago, H2O said: Last couple days I've seen a lot more brave souls making desperate attempts to fly across roads to get to the other side. Thoughts and prayers to them Same here, seen a fair number "flying" around. I use quotes around flying because it's more like bumbling along while beating their wings. I guess they can actually get kind of far, relatively speaking. Have seen several dive-bombing birds, too, probably nabbing them in mid-air. I suspect tomorrow and Saturday the sound/activity might temporarily be a fair bit lower with rain and cooler temperatures. But then I imagine it'll go back up again toward the later part of the weekend as it clears out more and warms back up some. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 very dull hum can be heard from inside the house today. I do sit next to our sliding glass door, so that probably helps me hear them, but its a noticeable noise this morning while inside. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Balti Zen Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 Most definitely a wave of new emergences in Stony Run Park in North Baltimore. Also, a ton of new holes in my backyard that were not there a few days ago. I would guess about to see some there for the first time - altho the Memorial Day freezer weather may slow this down again... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 1 hour ago, Always in Zugzwang said: Same here, seen a fair number "flying" around. I use quotes around flying because it's more like bumbling along while beating their wings. I guess they can actually get kind of far, relatively speaking. Have seen several dive-bombing birds, too, probably nabbing them in mid-air. SOOO many fliers out and about! No matter which window you look out, you can see 5-10 at any given time trying to get somewhere. And yeah, they are humorously bad navigators. I'm also starting to see the only part about periodical cicada visits that I really don't like -- the brown/dying outermost 1-2 feet of tree branches on trees hanging down, from the point where mama cicadas have dug into the branches and laid their eggs. 3 minutes ago, wxtrix said: the alien spaceship has finally arrived in my backyard. I am so psyched! Good! I've had the windows open almost every day this week....I love working to the sound of that alien "coooooooo." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormfly Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 The blue jays are going nuts here! They are absolutely cranked to 11 fighting over these things! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 13 minutes ago, vastateofmind said: SOOO many fliers out and about! No matter which window you look out, you can see 5-10 at any given time trying to get somewhere. And yeah, they are humorously bad navigators. I'm also starting to see the only part about periodical cicada visits that I really don't like -- the brown/dying outermost 1-2 feet of tree branches on trees hanging down, from the point where mama cicadas have dug into the branches and laid their eggs. Good! I've had the windows open almost every day this week....I love working to the sound of that alien "coooooooo." I haven't seen any of the "flagging" trees yet, I thought that typically appears in a couple of months when the eggs hatch and fall out. But maybe some of the earlier ones are starting to. I saw a lot of that in 2004. Fortunately, it doesn't really harm most trees and in fact (from what I heard) is like a good pruning. But new or smaller trees like fruit trees...could be bad for those (I actually have seen a couple of yards where someone has put up netting around their smaller ones). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 1 hour ago, wxtrix said: the alien spaceship has finally arrived in my backyard. I am so psyched! yeah its noticeably louder here today, even more so than when they were singing yesterday. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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H2O Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 11 minutes ago, FXW176 said: Murderer 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 Was expecting the sounds outside to start slowing down. Got him and nope. Still just as loud. All 3 songs can be heard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 Mini-map said it was ridiculously loud outside at school today, much much louder than any other day this week. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 5 minutes ago, H2O said: Was expecting the sounds outside to start slowing down. Got him and nope. Still just as loud. All 3 songs can be heard Seems it slows down toward the later afternoon, relatively speaking, and then totally stops by evening. They start up early each day...like not long after sunrise or when enough light has come out! It did seem louder today where I'm at, compared to the other day. Cool that you can hear all 3 of the magicicada songs! I've been able to clearly discern two of them (the more abundant "septendecim" and also the "cassini"...but not sure I've heard the "septendecula" offhand). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 5 minutes ago, mappy said: Mini-map said it was ridiculously loud outside at school today, much much louder than any other day this week. LOL...funny but upon going outside to get my daughter to school this morning, she said "shut up, cicadas!" She doesn't get why I find them fascinating and thinks it's gross when I pick one up (or "rescue" one from the sidewalk and put it on a nearby tree or bush)!! She was 6 months old when they came out last time in 2004, so obviously wouldn't remember that...and is now 17-1/2 and graduating high school. Kind of an odd symmetry there in a way, and makes me realize just how long a time that is! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 Loudest day here so far. Starting to see some flyers but not many yet. In 2004, we were doing renovation work here and I learned that the high pitch of a circular saw must sound like a cicada in heat. They swarmed whenever it got turned on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormfly Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 4 hours ago, Always in Zugzwang said: I haven't seen any of the "flagging" trees yet, I thought that typically appears in a couple of months when the eggs hatch and fall out. But maybe some of the earlier ones are starting to. I saw a lot of that in 2004. Fortunately, it doesn't really harm most trees and in fact (from what I heard) is like a good pruning. But new or smaller trees like fruit trees...could be bad for those (I actually have seen a couple of yards where someone has put up netting around their smaller ones). Yes I remember bad flagging on the northern outer loop of the beltway (695) back 2004. Lots of people learned from that with saplings and have 'em bagged now! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 Publicly fornicating cicadas! Shock, horror! Someone get these two a room, or a private tree branch, stat!! (or call @ravensrule!) 1 4 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rclab Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 8 minutes ago, Always in Zugzwang said: Publicly fornicating cicadas! Shock, horror! Someone get these two a room, or a private tree branch, stat!! (or call @ravensrule!) Good evening Z. If their ultimate act of procreation is accomplished without looking at each other, its no wonder that it takes 17 years to come to fruition. As always 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poolz1 Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 Today was certainly a significant uptick. Wow! Night and day difference from yesterday.... Nothing new to you folks east of me but the intensity really is crazy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 Saw some hot cicada sex in my driveway tonight 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunny23 Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 Amazingly quiet tonight after an otherwise deafening day... Beautiful night out 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Balti Zen Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 Just a huge emergence in our front yard last night. We have one of those exoshell collections now under one of my oaks that is stomach churning in how many are piled up there. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEATHER53 Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 So far about 1/4 of last time Few lightning bugs tonight. Few 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 16 hours ago, rclab said: Good evening Z. If their ultimate act of procreation is accomplished without looking at each other, its no wonder that it takes 17 years to come to fruition. As always lol this is funny 11 hours ago, North Balti Zen said: Just a huge emergence in our front yard last night. We have one of those exoshell collections now under one of my oaks that is stomach churning in how many are piled up there. Awesome! Def not a huge emergence here, but a lot more on a few trees. Lot more birds hanging around the tree picking them off. My older dog is snacking on them constantly. She just paces the fence and trees looking for them, it’s ridiculous lol 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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