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I've heard from our neighbors that they have been goin out at night with a flashlight to watch them coming out of their holes and molting.
So far, all I have seen in the daytime is empty shells, and mummified adults who were never able to break their shells open and hardened permanently inside the tightly fitting shells. A few fully formed adults walking around too.
It's early still, and still quiet.
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I'd assume they procreate before the back end rots off.
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It doesn't happen to all of them, it's a fungal infection. It actually does seem to prevent procreation in many of its victims.
My parents' neighbor's yard erupted, but not many in my neighborhood.2021 Brood X Cicada Emergence
2021 Brood X Cicada Emergence
2021 Brood X Cicada Emergence
2021 Brood X Cicada Emergence
2021 Brood X Cicada Emergence
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Those are really cool, but the Groucho Marx eyebrows are a bit much.
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I remember them in May or June 1956, 57, or 58. So many that one could hardly walk the sidewalk without constantly stepping on one. Even saw my first Siamese twin.
Today's insects are so few that I have never seen an outcropping of cicadas (or lightning bugs) anywhere near numbers like there used to be.
Silent Spring is upon us - as predicted.
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Good pictures. I need to get out there at night to see them coming out.
I wonder about landscape fabric. We put a bunch of landscape fabric and mulch under our linden tree a few years ago to keep the weeds and maintenance down. There are a few cicada exit holes under that tree where there is no fabric, and not much anywhere else. I can see a couple of holes where cicadas have shewed their way through it to get out of the ground, but otherwise, nothing. So I grabbed a corner of the fabric and pulled it up a bit.
Turns out I'm a mass murderer. Landscape fabric kills cicadas
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That's an interesting view of the tunnels; too bad about the circumstances.
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11 levels of origami cicada.
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Found a bush they like.2021 Brood X Cicadas
2021 Brood X Cicadas
2021 Brood X Cicadas
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Some video with the sound they makeThe Sound of the 2021 Brood X Cicadas
The Sound of the 2021 Brood X Cicadas
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I keep getting one landing on my window screen, chirping exactly three times very loudly, and then flying away. Probably not the same one.
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They couldn't make it past a sign taped to a tree.Impassible Barrier
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Stupid bugs. Don't they realize they can fly?
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Hard to pick up chicks when you're winging it.
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glatt wrote:
Stupid bugs. Don't they realize they can fly?
Can they, though? Better than me, I suppose, but that's not saying much.
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This one decided the middle of a footpath was a good place...
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I have yet to see even one. Have not seen these things since the late 1950s.
Apparently they have morphed into Lantern Bugs. And are now sneaky. They don't make noise.
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This video is from that link.
It's pretty cool, but......
David Attenborough (a) doesn't know how to pronounce the word & (b) is grooming an adolescent male cicada for sex
Thanks for the linkie, Diaphragm J
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David Attenborough is 95. What does he know about sex?
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Everything.
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Oh, *snap*!
(aaaaugh, get away from me! get awaaaay! BUGS!)
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Found a popular spot. Boxwood apparently is the place to be.2021 Brood X Cicadas
2021 Brood X Cicadas
2021 Brood X Cicadas
A bit of voyeurism...20210603_173313
Closeup of a shell2021 Brood X Cicadas
Graveyard2021 Brood X Cicadas