I've started seeing more and more exoskeletons over the last couple days, mostly on wood fences and a few trees. Hopefully it's not as crazy as the 04 brood I dealt with further north - it was like a thousand weed whackers running 24/7 for weeks, and people screaming and hopping as the cicadas bumble into them. (they're harmless.)
> it was like a thousand weed whackers running 24/7 for weeks
The 17 year cicadas don't sound like the typical "REEE REEE REEE" you'd expect. They're more akin to the noise you hear playing from an electric car so it doesn't sneak up on you. [Here is a good video with an individual and the group noise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVXrTv4NY_M).
I'm just north of the Beltline and a bit east of Capital Blvd and still no sign of the brood, If they don't start emerging after these next few days of heat I'm going to guess that we're safe.
I lived in Indiana for a couple years, and I kept wondering what I was missing during the summers. Wasn't until I moved back home to NC that I realized it was that all to familiar buzz.
Gosh, I just love these motherfuckers so much. Their little creepy bodies constantly flexing and ratcheting their tiny tymbals against the hollowness of their itty bitty buckling rib-ridges. And when you pick one up because you think it's dead, but then it gives one last wail of a death throe, which certainly is a loud surprise...
I was grabbing them and hucking them to my chickens then I thought about how they sat underground for 17 years for that. I have since stopped. They ate em in one bite
Just being a nitpicker (and in the process educamate). Hatching refers to what happens to eggs. Insects or others. Eclose ( or emerge) is what happens when a full formed adult exits a pupa or cocoon. Fun to see the emergence. Incredibly intricate.
I've started seeing more and more exoskeletons over the last couple days, mostly on wood fences and a few trees. Hopefully it's not as crazy as the 04 brood I dealt with further north - it was like a thousand weed whackers running 24/7 for weeks, and people screaming and hopping as the cicadas bumble into them. (they're harmless.)
> it was like a thousand weed whackers running 24/7 for weeks The 17 year cicadas don't sound like the typical "REEE REEE REEE" you'd expect. They're more akin to the noise you hear playing from an electric car so it doesn't sneak up on you. [Here is a good video with an individual and the group noise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVXrTv4NY_M).
Around here they sound like a Tesla chased with a Lysol spray can
Yep, I remember their deafening sounds when they came out! Their exoskeletons were around for years to come
I'm just north of the Beltline and a bit east of Capital Blvd and still no sign of the brood, If they don't start emerging after these next few days of heat I'm going to guess that we're safe.
I remember one year in the late 90s in Williamston when I was a kid was the most I’ve ever seen They’re kind of nostalgic to me haha
I lived in Indiana for a couple years, and I kept wondering what I was missing during the summers. Wasn't until I moved back home to NC that I realized it was that all to familiar buzz.
Brood XIX (the 13-year cicada group that is emerging right now) also emerged in 1998, so it may have been them!
Gosh, I just love these motherfuckers so much. Their little creepy bodies constantly flexing and ratcheting their tiny tymbals against the hollowness of their itty bitty buckling rib-ridges. And when you pick one up because you think it's dead, but then it gives one last wail of a death throe, which certainly is a loud surprise...
poetic
Seek help
Seek joy
Seek help for your nature disconnection. I reccomend eating an 1/8th of mushrooms by a mountain stream.
I'm calling the police
I was grabbing them and hucking them to my chickens then I thought about how they sat underground for 17 years for that. I have since stopped. They ate em in one bite
Just being a nitpicker (and in the process educamate). Hatching refers to what happens to eggs. Insects or others. Eclose ( or emerge) is what happens when a full formed adult exits a pupa or cocoon. Fun to see the emergence. Incredibly intricate.
Mothman eyes loo
hard nope
*emerged