Have you seen/heard the cicadas in your area?

[BigmanPigman]

I was wondering how loud they are and how numerous. I used to live in PA but don't remember the experience or if I even had any while there.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

1. Yes, they're LOUD here now in SW Ohio.

I wasn't seeing or hearing any of them for so long, weeks after they'd emerged in other parts of the country, that I was actually concerned about them!

Now, not at all!

[BigmanPigman]

8. I read that they are louder when an airplane flies over.

Supposedly this is due to the males not knowing that the planes are not competing males so they crank up the volume.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

12. That certainly seems plausible, but I don't know.

They seem determined to be noisier than a jet airliner around here, though.

Not remotely so loud right now, though, since it's nighttime. I can still hear a small number of them in the distance if I walk outside, but most of them are quiet at night.

[Freddie]

2. I'm in PA (an hour north of Philly)

And the cicadas are LOUD in some wooded areas. They seem to like oak trees.

[BigmanPigman]

7. That's the area where I grew up.

I don't remember cicadas though, only the killer Gypsy Moths in the 70s.

[Marie Marie]

17. I am also in PA - north of Philly and I haven't heard or seen even one of these critters.

[Freddie]

18. I'm in Upper Bucks

Seems like it just started a couple days ago.

[Marie Marie]

19. I'm north of you - but since we have lost so much of our green spaces,

we may not get them - unless you shoo them up my way.

[bottomofthehill]

3. Had the joy of one flying in my shirt today when I got home from work.

They are about as expected in northern VA, Loud, annoying and seemingly everywhere, including in my shirt.

[BigmanPigman]

5. THAT would gross me out.

I know they don't bite but just the thought of them crawling in my clothes...YUK!

[bottomofthehill]

10. I was not thrilled with it crawling around

But after a couple buttons unbuttoned, I was able to get it to fly away.

[dweller]

4. Zip, nada

Here in NC

I remember them years ago sounding like waves of spaceships landing …

✌🏻

[BigmanPigman]

6. Yes, I finally found a decent video

with sound and it sounded just like something from a 50s Sci-fi movie. Creepy.

[Ocelot II]

9. We have annual cicadas here and they get kind of noisy in late summer, but

I am very glad that we don't have those creepy periodic cicadas that are infesting the east. Eww.

[happybird]

11. They are loud as hell here in northern Virginia

and now they’ve taken to dive bombing– usually right at your face. That seems to be a new development in the last day or two. They had been pretty docile, just hanging out in the trees and shrubs, or slowly crawling around on the side of the house or on the deck, now they are flying around everywhere. My windshield was a total mess today. Loaded up on a couple jugs of windshield washer fluid on the way home from work tonight.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

13. That's what I remember from 17 years ago!

They haven't reached that stage here yet, when they're suddenly flying awkwardly everywhere.

[happybird]

20. I went with my Mom to a big outdoor event yesterday

and we got pelted! I don’t really mind them because I know they are harmless, but it’s disconcerting to have something that large flying rapidly at your face. Everyone was flicking and plucking cicadas off of other people.

What is strange is they are silent tonight. I can actually hear the frogs for the first time in a couple weeks.

The past few nights, the cicadas have been loud and several have been hanging out on my kitchen window, where light is always on. Tonight, the usual moths and assorted insects are on the window but not one single cicada.

I think they might be planning something big.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

21. The calm before the storm!

Yeah, it's very annoying when they slam into your face! And it's odd how they often collide there, unless it's intentional. Like they think they're headed for the highest part of a moving tree! Ugh, I'm sure that I'll experience it again soon.

[BigmanPigman]

16. They look like they are pretty big,

judging from the videos I was able to find. I didn't even think of driving through/into them. Eww.

[JoeOtterbein]

14. If you lived in an area of PA that was cleared of trees and plowed you may not have cicadas.

Same if it was done a long time ago like here in SC York, PA. We have trees now, but they were planted when our houses were built. Before then it was farmland. No trees.

!7 years ago here, we had almost no brood X cicadas.

This year we had a few. Enough that I could hear them earlier today. I was happy to hear them.

[yonder]

15. Nope, but south of here, in Owyhee County, mormon crickets are on the move.

Hopefully they won't get up into our area this cycle. Disgusting little buggers.

https://abc7chicago.com/mormon-crickets-billions-of-cricket-invasion-insect/10751987/

[happybird]

23. Ew! I'll take cicadas over crickets any day!

Crickets freak me out, man.

[3Hotdogs]

22. Hunterdon County, N.J.

Feral cat at my daughter's house is hunting and eating them.

[BigmanPigman]

25. I read that some are eaten by dogs and cats and

doubted it...until your post. I can understand opossums and birds eating them but not cats and dogs. My dogs used to try to catch flies but they never ate them, just killed them.

[Sneederbunk]

24. I live in the NW.

No Cicadas here, but there is a dog next door that won't shut up.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

26. I live in Santa Fe, NM. No cicadas here.

Actually, almost no bugs of any kind. That's one of the wonderful and amazing things I love about living here. No bugs. It does not get better than this. Lucky me.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

27. S.E. Michigan, all quiet, for now.

[underpants]

28. No. I told them to leave.

The “fall line” is basically Fredericksburg about an hour north of us.

[luvs2sing]

29. Haven't seen any here..

on the north side of Columbus, but if you drive ten minutes north or west they’re everywhere. I’m not complaining.

[rainy]

30. They are not going to be here where I live in VA.

On the coast.