Cicadas

[Ky hills]

We are in the midst of the 17 year periodical cicada emergence.
Being near deaf and having lifelong tinnitus that sounds very similar to the cicadas sound, I can't hear them this time around. I've been saying now people have an idea what I have heard nonstop all of my life. As my hearing gets worse the tinnitus gets worse.
I found out today that they are apparently drawn to the sound of a chainsaw.
I was in the backyard sawing up some big pieces of wood from downed trees, within a couple minutes cicadas were swarming us. They must have came from off of the trees in the front yard.
A couple weeks or so ago when they first started coming out of the ground I took some pictures of them both in the nymph stage just coming out of the ground and shedding their exoskeletons as well as the adult stage.
While sawing I noticed a different kind of beetle or maybe some kind of tree borer?in the pieces of decaying logs in the next to last picture.

 

[Mark Reynolds]

I get the Cicadas. I was in the field on Monday and Tuesday in Cincinati and Adams county, Ohio, completing vegetation inventories and had the pleasure of the constant drone from them. The noise is very different from the annual cicadas. The periodicals have a 'possessed' appearance to them with them being jet black, beady orange eyes, and clear, transparent wings.

That last picture isn't cicadas though. Those look like carrion beetles. Was there something dead nearby where you found those?

 

[Moparmaniac07]

Looks like a burying beetle.

 

[Ky hills]

I get the Cicadas. I was in the field on Monday and Tuesday in Cincinati and Adams county, Ohio, completing vegetation inventories and had the pleasure of the constant drone from them. The noise is very different from the annual cicadas. The periodicals have a 'possessed' appearance to them with them being jet black, beady orange eyes, and clear, transparent wings.

That last picture isn't cicadas though. Those look like carrion beetles. Was there something dead nearby where you found those?

Yeah, i knew those others weren't cicadas. I included that picture of the beetles, wondering what they were. They were in a rotting log in pile of wood in our yard.

 

[chaded]

I’m ready for them to be gone.

 

[sstterry]

Think about what a life they have. They wake up, eat, mate, and then go back to sleep for 17 years. Pretty cushy life if you think about it.

 

[Logan52]

My hearing is not what it once was, yet the drone of the cicadas has come through loud and clear since Mother's Day.
On the tractor or lawn mower they climb down my collar and up my sleeves. They scream when I pluck them off and toss them in the air.
I have never seen a hatch as big as this one has been in 70 years. This brood is a bit smaller cicada than some years, but every bit as annoying.

 

[Ky hills]

Think about what a life they have. They wake up, eat, mate, and then go back to sleep for 17 years. Pretty cushy life if you think about it.

Actually once they emerge from the ground. They shed their exoskeleton from the nymph stage, and the adult form only lives a few weeks. The adult stage mates, lays eggs and dies. The eggs hatch and the baby cicada form goes underground and stays there for the next 17 years then emerge and start the lifecycle over again.

 

[Ky hills]

My hearing is not what it once was, yet the drone of the cicadas has come through loud and clear since Mother's Day.
On the tractor or lawn mower they climb down my collar and up my sleeves. They scream when I pluck them off and toss them in the air.
I have never seen a hatch as big as this one has been in 70 years. This brood is a bit smaller cicada than some years, but every bit as annoying.

I've usually been able to hear them sometimes outside, but not this time. My wife can here them from in the house.
The last time they came out we had some questionable renters living in a house, and they called wanting me to do something about the cicadas as they were driving them crazy they said.
Nothing I could do, no way to spray them to have any effect. They were mad but, my thoughts were they were probably drugged up or had hangovers.
Im going to be mowing the yard today so I'm sure it will be interesting.
Yesterday evening trying to run a chainsaw was like something out of a horror movie, they were coming at me like a swarm of bees.
They are annoying but only around for a few weeks..

 

[Lucky_P]

Back around '96, we had a major cicada brood emergence. I had a little single-string weedeater, and was trimming around so ome trees in the orchard, but had to quit because the cicadas were drawn to it!

 

[TCRanch]

Probably 30 years ago I was doing yard work and got "attacked" by cicadas. My hair was still down to my waist but in a ponytail and 5 of those evil beasts go stuck in my ponytail. 'Bout lost my shyt trying to get them out cuz they latched on with their spiky legs and would subsequently cling to my fingers. I'm still traumatized!

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

I miss the cicadas of Texas, the annual ones. Their sound rrrrr rrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrr. They will all get together and rub their legs at once louder and louder and louder. I also miss the Katydids that buzz at night. Fffst Fsst.
Cicadas are the sound of summer days and the crickets are the sound of autumn nights. The bullfrogs are pretty cool too.

In Oregon all we hear is Pacific treefrog's crick-ek, owls whoo and coyotes howling.

 

[Mrcopier]

I miss the cicadas of Texas, the annual ones. Their sound rrrrr rrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrr. They will all get together and rub their legs at once louder and louder and louder. I also miss the Katydids that buzz at night. Fffst Fsst.
Cicadas are the sound of summer days and the crickets are the sound of autumn nights. The bullfrogs are pretty cool too.

In Oregon all we hear is Pacific treefrog's crick-ek, owls whoo and coyotes howling.

How’s that go again?

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

yipp yipp yip yiiiiieeeee Bang! silence. Ranch across the road uses night vision goggles.
Many coyotes hung on the fence. They disappear because the bears eat the bodies.

 

[greybeard]

I haven't heard any this year but I've sure seen the holes where lots of them have left the ground.

 

[sstterry]

I haven't heard any this year but I've sure seen the holes where lots of them have left the ground.

Yeah, but you are a city boy now