Scarlet Pimpernel Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 8 minutes ago, mappy said: You're old. You will be even older if you see 2 more events. @H2O's video recording of his first experience of an emergence... 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 8 minutes ago, mappy said: You're old. You will be even older if you see 2 more events. We all will be older. But I act 14 so I have that going for me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 y'all seem to think I am old when I am old 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthArlington101 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 51 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! 49 minutes ago, North Balti Zen said: I have been doing that too. Least I can do. They waited 17 years for this. 38 minutes ago, vastateofmind said: 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!!" I've saved dozens at the pool over the last few weeks. Poor buggers don't seem to realize that once they get in they can't fly away. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toolsheds Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 47 minutes ago, mappy said: You're old. You will be even older if you see 2 more events. I bet he makes it for 3 more.......modern medicine could make it possible. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 6 minutes ago, toolsheds said: I bet he makes it for 3 more.......modern medicine could make it possible. lol 3 more would put him in the 100s 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 7 minutes ago, mappy said: lol 3 more would put him in the 100s 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 Up until Saturday or so - I wasn't having much of an issue with them hitting the car while driving. That changed over the weekend - they are dumb little creatures. They appear to be flying harmlessly over the car and then dive into the windshield - splattering and dying. I'm ready for them to be gone for another 17 years. Car is a mess... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 22 hours ago, Maestrobjwa said: 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...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 1 hour ago, wxtrix said: the cicadas are even louder again today: Yeah, still pretty loud where I am too. And definitely a lot more flying about, all over the place, over the past several days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhineasC Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 90 dB out there right now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhineasC Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 Imagine how loud it must have been hundreds of years ago before all the development. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 I’ve passed some loud spots but haven’t cracked 82dB. 90s are impressive. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormfly Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 5 minutes ago, wxtrix said: i think my backyard has a 100 decibel reading in it tomorrow or Wednesday. LOL! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Balti Zen Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 My son found a 95 on Hopkins’ campus today. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 Was ridiculously loud at work today, could hear them through the window near my cube 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 1 hour ago, MN Transplant said: I’ve passed some loud spots but haven’t cracked 82dB. 90s are impressive. I peaked at 73dB a few days ago. I'm generally at 65 dB or so now. Just not much happening in the trees immediately around my house, but walk a block or two away and it gets damn loud. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 They must be hungover this morning. Didn't seem as loud as previous mornings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 51 minutes ago, H2O said: They must be hungover this morning. Didn't seem as loud as previous mornings Yeah...and that rotting cicada funk you mentioned a week or so ago? Definitely becoming more pronounced in certain areas. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 5 minutes ago, vastateofmind said: Yeah...and that rotting cicada funk you mentioned a week or so ago? Definitely becoming more pronounced in certain areas. yeah. Its noticeable thanks to the heat. Those trees with thousands of carcasses at the bottom? equal to a dead deer. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 25 minutes ago, vastateofmind said: Yeah...and that rotting cicada funk you mentioned a week or so ago? Definitely becoming more pronounced in certain areas. 19 minutes ago, H2O said: yeah. Its noticeable thanks to the heat. Those trees with thousands of carcasses at the bottom? equal to a dead deer. Yup, have been able to smell that cicada funk scent for a little while now. I guess a lot of the ones that emerged earliest are dying off, plus all the half-eaten ones left by birds or otherwise have gotten squashed and have been lying around on the sidewalks or the street. Anyone else hear them at night ever? I swear the last several I've heard them well after sunset (and even toward the middle of the night). Not as loud as during the day, but still clearly. I've heard that they might be "active" around artificial lighting like street lights, etc. But in general they don't do anything while dark. There's plenty of street lights and other building lighting around here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George BM Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 30-35 dbz returns over my house this morning. Two days ago when I was mowing my lawn a whole bunch of them flew from the small tree that I was circling ( there were hundreds of them covering the tree trunk) and it started raining. For the past week I've been observing 3-4+ cicada/m^3 rates when they are flying in the backyard (crabapple?) tree and small front yard tree. Rates even approaching 6 cicadas/m^3 at times. Jackpotting rules! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 3 minutes ago, George BM said: 30-35 dbz returns over my house this morning. Two days ago when I was mowing my lawn a whole bunch of them flew from the small tree that I was circling ( there were hundreds of them covering the tree trunk) and it started raining. For the past week I've been observing 3-4+ cicada/m^3 rates when they are flying in the backyard (crabapple?) tree and small front yard tree. Rates even approaching 6 cicadas/m^3 at times. Jackpotting rules! Make sure to clear your cicada board, and don't slant-stick!! 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthArlington101 Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 Seemed the most active I've seen them this morning. They were relentlessly attacking the poolgoers! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 It kinda feels like the peak is past here in my area. Friday seemed to be the peak here. I'm seeing lots of dead ones now and the sound seems slightly less each day starting yesterday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dabuckeyes Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 Definitely have been sitting in the cicada deathband for quite a while. Looking forward to the back edge! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighStakes Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 Have not seen a single one north of Hampstead. Last Saturday at a little game in Westminster and not a one there either. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George BM Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 So... about thirty minutes ago I had a cicada land near my left wrist and stick its drinking stick into that region to start drinking. I assume that this is normal cicada behavior and has happened to many of you? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 36 minutes ago, George BM said: So... about thirty minutes ago I had a cicada land near my left wrist and stick its drinking stick into that region to start drinking. I assume that this is normal cicada behavior and has happened to many of you? Can't say I've had them try to "drink" from my hand before, or lay eggs. Maybe you found a vamp-cada, trying to suck your blood! If you wake up tomorrow with an urge to yell "Phaaaaa-rooooh" all day long, that might be a concern! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paleocene Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 22 hours ago, PhineasC said: Imagine how loud it must have been hundreds of years ago before all the development. I have been wondering about this. Any ecologists or entomologists on the board? I think it's safe to assume that paving streets and building structures removes their habitat and reduces their numbers, but what's the ideal cicada habitat? Is it dense forest? Or do they prefer more open, meadow-tree boundary zones? I haven't had a chance to go out for a hike or anything... what are they like in the woods? They seem to do just fine in the mostly tree-covered suburbs. Do they do better with specific trees? So many cicada questions, so little time 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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