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Related: About this forumBrood awakening: Cicadas emerging across D.C. area.
These are the early bloomers. A more massive, widespread swarm still awaits.
'Despite chilly weather, cicadas have begun to emerge in considerable numbers throughout the Washington region. This marks the beginning of the much-anticipated Brood X cicada outburst, a once-every-17-years event.
On Capital Weather Gangs Twitter feed, weve received dozens of reports of the insects in Northern Virginia, Maryland and the District.
Monday morning brought a sudden increase in sightings after only isolated reports of early cicadas in the past one to two weeks. The emergence was somewhat unexpected given the cooler-than-normal temperatures since Friday.
Despite the surge of reports, the insects havent crawled out of their holes everywhere, and a more massive swarm still awaits.
My opinion is that these emergences are still localized and spotty, in small numbers, and not widespread at least in what I was able to observe, Daniel Gruner, a professor in University of Marylands entomology department, wrote in an email Monday. All of the sites I am monitoring have no emergence, the instances we saw were localized to single yards, with just a handful of individuals. The adults have been hard to find this morning.'>>>
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/05/10/cicadas-awakening/?
nebby70
(471 posts)... maybe it's because I'm a city girl...
...... although I did just read something about how to prep and eat them....
........... so after a long long year of lock down and seeming to eat the same thing over and over,
perhaps I'll look at them differently this year.....
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)UNDER MY SHIRT AND ON MY SKIN!!! Aiyee!
Otherwise I vividly recall the stench of them rotting in the gutters, and recall seeing their creepy shedded exoskeletons clinging to our big rope swing (and other places, like window screens, etc.) for a long, long time.
However, subsequent hatches have not been as abundant I imagine because Arlington has dug up so much land making tiny houses like ours into gigundo houses.
Last time, though, we did have a rat population explosion because they et the cicadas.
This time, seems like the foxes are already digging the cicadas out and chowing down.
Random Boomer
(4,168 posts)I've downloaded the Cicada Safari app so I can document when they appear in my region and add new data to cicada research.
I think they're fascinating insects and I'm eagerly awaiting their arrival. Also, my cats are going to LOVE these new toys...
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)County becomes cicada central.
I look forward to them.
I like cicadas.
I have three realistic metal pins of a cicadas I got decades ago. I wear them every 17 years since I got it.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)... their numbers will surely be huge around here soon, as usual.