Cicadas

Jus Cruisin

Jus Cruisin

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Heard my first one walking the dog last evening. Crap.... 6 weeks before our 1st frost in Michigan... At least that's what weather folklore says...

Had them in Florida, too. Down there it was almost deafening with so many making noise. Nothing like that here but still not what I wanted to hear.
 
We hear them in the Idaho desert when it gets really hot. Not knowing what they were for the longest time, I always just called them "heat bugs". Fortunately, we only get them onesy-twosy, unlike the Midwest.
 
Jus Cruisin said:
Heard my first one walking the dog last evening. Crap.... 6 weeks before our 1st frost in Michigan... At least that's what weather folklore says...

Had them in Florida, too. Down there it was almost deafening with so many making noise. Nothing like that here but still not what I wanted to hear.
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Not to worry. You are looking at mid October or later for frost in east Michigan regardless of what the Cicadas "think". Might even be later. On our side of the state with its microclimate along the shore of Lake Michigan, we have pulled flowers out of the garden in mid November that had yet to be killed by frost.
 
No cicadas are supposed to emerge this year. There might be a few stragglers, but no significate brood.
 
When I was in elementary school (and no, we didn't have to ride horses to school, I'm not THAT old!) someone started a rumor that cicadas would bite you and you would die from the bite. Scared the bejesus out of all of us.

Today that would be labeled FAKE NEWS!
 
JayhawkCurtis said:
I have no idea what any of you are talking about.
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Turns out I was wrong, I had always heard them called locusts, the kind we have in Ok are the annual type with the green head, never seen the black headed type. Learn something new every day!

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I kinda miss the cicadas. There were a sound of summer where I grew up in NJ. The seem to be absent here on Long Island.
 
We’re starting to get the annual cicadas. I call our 70 year old Silver Maple the cicada tree because they love the bark, and when I see one dead in the yard or on the driveway, I put them in the garden around the base of the tree. Great sounds of Summer for us.
 
I though cicadas only came out of the ground every 10 years or something like that
 
We have them here around the Chesapeake yearly, I find them in my drive way and deck all the time. Washed a few off of the boat this evening. They are very loud at night when it's hot, like this week has been crazy. @b_arrington had them in Stony Brook all the time, only heard them when it was ~90 or so.
 
Blueone said:
I though cicadas only came out of the ground every 10 years or something like that
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There are different broods that run on different schedules. Brood X is the famous one. We experienced it here in 2004 and then again in 2021 (every 17 years). The first time was just after we built our home so our yard didn't have very many as the ground had been disturbed. But in 2021, the suckers were everywhere. They leave about a 1/2 inch bore hole when they emergre from their 17 year underground nap. At the peak, the din of their mating call sounds like something out of the Twilight Zone. Like many things in nature, they die after mating and depositing their eggs in the tender shoots of tree limbs. The piles of dead cicadas at the bases of trees really creates a stench. While we have some cicadas every year, the Brood X will show up again in 2038.

Can't wait!

Jaybeaux
 
Not sure ive heard one since moving to Florida. They were a constant sound of summer at the jersey shore in my oak tree
 
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