MDstorm Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 Operation “Save the Cicadas” on the lake at Piney Run Park. 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhotoGuy Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 Still haven't seen or heard any in Pasadena. They were very loud in Annapolis on Friday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Balti Zen Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 93 decibels at end of my front walk just now. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 Between Frederick and Thurmont for my sons baseball and there are only a couple here. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 42 minutes ago, North Balti Zen said: 93 decibels at end of my front walk just now. Loudest and busiest day here. I drove the western side of the beltway earlier today and my windshield will have to be scrubbed before tomorrow morning’s commute. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Balti Zen Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 7 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said: Loudest and busiest day here. I drove the western side of the beltway earlier today and my windshield will have to be scrubbed before tomorrow morning’s commute. It is truly amazing to experience this. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 95db at my pool where it’s surrounded by woods 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillvilleWx Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 18 minutes ago, wxtrix said: even louder today: I honestly can't wait to be home at the end of the week to hear this. It was surreal when I was 13 years old on the last Brood swarm. My older sister and my niece and nephew live in the old house I grew up in north of Carney, MD and they said it was super loud there. Can hear it faintly with everything in the house closed up. Crazy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestrobjwa Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 On 6/5/2021 at 4:07 PM, forkyfork said: wait til they die and the bodies are everywhere Dude a bunch came out in apocalyptic fashion under a tree on my street a few weeks ago at the start of the emergence...walked by the same tree the other day and had to cover my nose!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestrobjwa Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 1 hour ago, North Balti Zen said: It is truly amazing to experience this. Indeed...I'm trying to savor every moment!! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestrobjwa Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 On 6/5/2021 at 5:38 PM, Always in Zugzwang said: Cicada coastal has really taken over this week, with a full tuck and stall. High ratio banding! Only problem is @psuhoffmanliterally got fringed, lol 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb@MAWS Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 Craziest day yet IMBY. Absolutely swarming all over the place. Maxed at 88 decibels, equal to a vacuum cleaner, from my front porch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormfly Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 It's 03:42 and I hear their song inside the house, albeit faintly. Outside there is no mistaking the choir. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
09-10 analogy Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 Yesterday was the loudest so far. I didn’t get a decibel reading, but while parked under a grove of trees, I’d say the sound was unpleasantly loud when the song cycle (for lack of a better term) peaked. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 A cicada flew into my wife's coffee while she was on the deck this morning. She ate it and now for some reason all she can do is go BRRRRRR and flutter around the house. Send help. 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 If she digs into the ground and disappears for 17 days then I'd start to worry. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 I thought it was loud this weekend but it’s super duper loud this morning 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 40 minutes ago, mappy said: I thought it was loud this weekend but it’s super duper loud this morning super duper? Like can't hear music in car loud? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 6 minutes ago, H2O said: super duper? Like can't hear music in car loud? Not that loud lol 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestrobjwa Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 On 6/5/2021 at 1:15 PM, Always in Zugzwang said: Female cicada laying eggs in a twig. Wow great shot! (had never seen that process) Planting the next generation freak party, lol 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeguyfromTakomaPark Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 Driving back from NY on I-95 this weekend once I hit Newark Delaware I could even hear them while going 70 mph. Pretty cool. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 25-30dBz cicadas slamming MoCo and Loudon 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 2 hours ago, Maestrobjwa said: Wow great shot! (had never seen that process) Planting the next generation freak party, lol Thanks! Yeah if you look closely enough you can see the ones laying eggs. I actually saw quite a bit of that going on in the past few days, and even saw some "tree flagging" beginning (where limbs turn brown and hang). Was able to get a ~3 minute video of a female laying eggs in a twig, among a few photos. Pretty cool! I'm going to actually miss these little buggers when they're done this time around. Glad I have a lot of pictures from this one (didn't get too many from 2004), and some neat video. We'll see the next generation in 17 years then! Hell, by that time I'll be nearly as old as @H2O, I can sit there on my porch and yell at the cicadas to "get off my lawn...and outta my trees!!" 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Balti Zen Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 Walking around downtown Balt to grab lunch, and this song crossed my mind (partial lyrics): Let the bodies hit the floor Let the bodies hit the floor Let the bodies hit the floor Let the bodies hit the floor Beaten, why for Can't take much more (Here we go, here we go, here we go now) One, nothing wrong with me Two, nothing wrong with me Three, nothing wrong with me Four, nothing wrong with me One, something's got to give Two, something's got to give Three, something's got to give now Let the bodies hit the floor Let the bodies hit the floor Let the bodies hit the floor Let the bodies hit the floor Let the bodies hit the floor Let the bodies hit the floor Push me again This is the end (Here we go, here we go, here we go now) One, nothing wrong with me Two, nothing wrong with me Three, nothing wrong with me Four, nothing wrong with me One, something's got to give Two, something's got to give Three, something's got to give now Let the bodies hit the floor Let the bodies hit the floor Let the bodies hit the floor Let the bodies hit the floor Let the bodies hit the floor Let the bodies hit the floor 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 On 6/5/2021 at 8:34 PM, MDstorm said: Operation “Save the Cicadas” on the lake at Piney Run Park. Haha!! I've actually found myself "saving" a number that are sitting there on the sidewalk, picking them up and gently placing them on a tree! What's interesting is that for as clumsily as they fly, they have quite the grip when clinging to something. If you let them get on your finger, for instance, they really stick to you and it's hard to get them off onto a tree branch! I guess that's why they can lie upside down so easily! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Balti Zen Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 I have been doing that too. Least I can do. They waited 17 years for this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 10 minutes ago, WxUSAF said: 25-30dBz cicadas slamming MoCo and Loudon Rippin' cadas!! They're flying all over, too! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 9 minutes ago, Always in Zugzwang said: Haha!! I've actually found myself "saving" a number that are sitting there on the sidewalk, picking them up and gently placing them on a tree! What's interesting is that for as clumsily as they fly, they have quite the grip when clinging to something. If you let them get on your finger, for instance, they really stick to you and it's hard to get them off onto a tree branch! I guess that's why they can lie upside down so easily! 8 minutes ago, North Balti Zen said: I have been doing that too. Least I can do. They waited 17 years for this. Well, I guess I'm not the only one. Given the amount of smooshed and bird-dissected cicada corpses I'm seeing ALL over the damn place, I've been picking them off of our patio, our patio chairs, out of the grass, and even off of myself, and carrying them over to the big ass oak tree in the backyard. Did it so often yesterday I lost count. My wife was all, "What in the HELL are you doing?!? LET them die!!" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Balti Zen Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 So...right after I posted in this thread a few minutes ago... I work on the 20th floor of my building downtown - got back up to my office w/ my salad and sat at my desk to eat and...crawling sensation on my neck. Crawling sensation on my neck. Crawling sensation on my neck. Reach back...buzzzzz. it pops off onto back of my chair. It let me pick it up, perched on backside of my hand - and let me take it back to the elevator, down 20 floors - out to our patio and I put it on a branch. Best of luck, little guy/gal. 5 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 31 minutes ago, Always in Zugzwang said: Thanks! Yeah if you look closely enough you can see the ones laying eggs. I actually saw quite a bit of that going on in the past few days, and even saw some "tree flagging" beginning (where limbs turn brown and hang). Was able to get a ~3 minute video of a female laying eggs in a twig, among a few photos. Pretty cool! I'm going to actually miss these little buggers when they're done this time around. Glad I have a lot of pictures from this one (didn't get too many from 2004), and some neat video. We'll see the next generation in 17 years then! Hell, by that time I'll be nearly as old as @H2O, I can sit there on my porch and yell at the cicadas to "get off my lawn...and outta my trees!!" I'm setting the standard for most cicada broods seen in a lifetime. If I can get 2 more then I'll be a happy old man. Right @mappy? But right now I'm not old. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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