Here comes the Cicadas - Somehow looking forward to their cycle and their song

[packman]

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As humans remain stuck inside or socially distanced, trillions of buzzing cicadas will burst out of the ground across the U.S. between now and summer 2021. It's already starting.

For 17 years, they’ve remained hidden underground, biding their time for the right moment to swarm the surface by the trillions. Now, the time has come for the brief but cacophonous party of “Brood IX,” a horde of cicadas in the U.S. South that has not been seen above ground since 2003.

These insects are poised to throw such a rare and raucous rager that the buzzing songs of the males may reach 90 decibels, which is as loud as a dirtbike or a lawnmower. Over the coming weeks, this sound will become a familiar background drone in many parts of Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina—the home turf of this particular brood of cicadas.

Brood IX isn’t the only cache of 17-year cicadas set to burst above ground: Brood X, or “the Great Eastern Brood,” is coming to the Midwest and Eastern U.S. next year. That batch will likely number in the trillions.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akzd9p/bow-humans-trillions-of-cicadas-are-going-to-rule-america


I remember growing up in Pennsylvania and the Cicadas drone and how the neighborhood dogs would feast on them.

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Because we didn't know any better...we called them locusts

when I was a youngan'. I LOVE to listen to them sing in the evening.
Side note: the Japanese must love them also, because they are in almost every anime I've ever watched. And that number is in the hundreds.

[Cicada]

2. Say what you will about us but we are damned good looking

[Lulu KC]

4. Love it

thanks for the smile

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. In Illinois, we're not due until 2024.

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. Don't let your dogs eat these. They really mess up

their intestinal tract. Their shells are sharp. A bunch of dogs ended up at the vet.

We had them here in KCMO a few years ago. They were everywhere in some spots. I didn't have them but Parkville did. I don't think they lasted very long. Then they were gone for another 17 years.

[Bayard]

6. Our ducks, chickens, and geese will be feasting

[nilram]

7. I wanted to go visit a friend near Louisville for this, but no travel for me now.

[Bayard]

9. Maybe she'll make audio clips for you?

The appearance of the June bugs is always celebrated by our poultry as well. And the swallows.

[GoneOffShore]

8. For a minute I thought you meant the Libertarians and Greens.

They are the cicadas of American politics.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. This is 2020. They will have fangs, venom and stingers.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. I don't look forward to seeing them everywhere again.

On the other hand, I'd be more disturbed if they don't show up. Then I might think they're yet another species that humanity is destroying.

I used to dislike the numerous dragon flies flapping around me when I was a young kid. My family lived near a creek, and they were everywhere. Then one day, years later as a teenager, I realized that I didn't see them anymore and it made me sad.