Any DU ers find one of these in your area recently?

[dixiegrrrrl]

For those interested in the current cicada emergence, a wonderful site which has maps, pictures, info.
http://www.magicicada.org/magicicada_xix.php


Facts include:
Periodical cicadas are unique in their combination of long, prime-numbered life cycles (13 or 17 years),
precisely timed mass emergences, and active choruses.

Periodical cicadas are found only in eastern North America, east of the Great Plains and south of the Great Lakes,
to the Florida Panhandle.

There are seven species -- four with 13-year life cycles and three with 17-year cycles.

Where I live seems to be the southernmost range in Ala, we have not seen any yet.

edited to add:
I found a page with the sound of the thing...it is truly VERY loud weird, and confirms that we don't have it here yet, I would remember hearing it.
open page and scroll down to the last picture on the right hand side, click on pic of the 17 year cicada.
http://www.musicofnature.org/songsofinsects/iframes/twentyspecies.html

[HopeHoops]

1. Too early here.

[polly7]

2. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeuw ick erase from memory ... no offense. n/t

[RebelOne]

3. No, and I hope I don't find any. n/t

[mmonk]

4. Will soon enough with the rest of them.

Just not yet. Cicadas serenade me in the evenings at my lake house.

[Libby2]

5. Oh yeah! Massive amounts in middle TN. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. That noise must be ...memorable.

I love the site where you can click on the insects and hear their song. All this time I thought I was hearing
"peeper" frogs, instead I identified 6 insects we hear every night.
But that 17 year cicada.....what a racket!!!!!

How long do they stick around?

[DURHAM D]

9. They have been emerging for past two weeks here in NC.

Very irritating.

[DURHAM D]

7. Yes and the noise is driving me crazy.

They sound like a wailing security alarm going off in the distance hour after hour and no one can turn it off.

[tnlefty]

8. Yep.

Very, very noisy and ugly to boot.

My cat eats the damned things and the birds snatch 'em up, too.

[MorningGlow]

10. Awww it's kinda cute

In a "so ugly it's..." kind of way. :loveya:

[tuckessee]

11. Nope. The mosquitoes are so thick even the cicadas are laying low. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. One advantage of no rain for too long- low mosquito count here.

So far we are not hearing any kind of cicada, but it can get loud later this summer from the annual ones.