# Chicago area Dopers: Seen any of those ugly little bastids yet? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 22, 2007, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084 "2007-05-22T14:56:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084/41 "2007-05-25T19:54:37Z")
[QUOTE=romansperson] [Interactive 17-year cicada map](http://cicadas.lcfpd.org/cicadamap/), for you Chicago peeps. I remember these from when I was a little kid back in Ohio. You couldn’t walk outside without stepping on them. Gross. [/QUOTE] I see a mild to moderate outbreak in my 'hood is expected. Haven’t heard a rattle out of 'em yet. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084/42 "2007-05-25T20:38:04Z")
**Jane** : where ya been? 🙂 I saw my first cicadas today. They were clinging to weed and grass stalks in an open area at a northwest side Forest Preserve trailhead. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084/43 "2007-05-25T21:12:26Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Fucking hell, is there anything you Merkins don’t eat. I mean you already gronff on squirrels and snakes :eek: Wassamarrer with sticking to proper food like liver and onions or pigs trotters 😛 [/QUOTE] Oh, don’t make the mistake of thinking all Merkins eat like I do. There’s a reason my friends have dubbed me ‘Galactus’. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084/44 "2007-05-26T00:00:35Z")
My boss said up by her mom’s house in Winnetka, they’re popping out of the ground like whack-a-moles, five a minute. ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084/45 "2007-05-26T00:02:29Z")
Live in Glenview, work in Wilmette: Haven’t seen any. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084/46 "2007-05-26T13:39:41Z")
Eastern DuPage county: The big elm tree out front of my house appears to have had at least 100 hatch around it. Other large to decent-sized trees in this area have at least a few cicadas on them at any given time. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Rosewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mr.Rosewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Rosewater)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084/47 "2007-05-29T04:51:00Z")
They seem to be getting off to a slow start. Still none in my neighborhood (Rogers Park) but there are some trees at my parents house up in Glencoe that have quite a few climbing around. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084/48 "2007-05-29T13:35:26Z")
Man, my backyard is seething! Last eve I was picking up dog shit and realized it was not a good idea to wear birkies on the back lawn. You could not step without treading on one or more, and I found it rather unpleasant when they would get caught between the bottom of my foot and the shoe… My shrubs have one or more on just about every leaf, and a couple of shrubs have shoots bending down from the weight of the buggers. And they are starting to sing quite loudly. The paper this a.m. said the weekend rains were loosening the ground up to make it easier for them to come up. And it said they start to sing in earnest 5 days after emerging. I was spade edging my back lawn on Sat, and can tell you there are TONS of them still underground. It has just started! The carnage is litterally beginning to pile up on the sidewalks. I think I’m going to need to use a shovel by the time this is all over… ---
**Author:** ![Jane\_D\_oh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/839c29/32.png) [@Jane\_D\_oh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jane_D_oh)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084/49 "2007-05-29T13:42:37Z")
[QUOTE=rowrrbazzle] **Jane** : where ya been? 🙂 [/QUOTE] I’ve been laying low. Still around, just not as chatty. Still haven’t seen any cicada though and don’t hear them singing yet. Maybe before the weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084/50 "2007-05-29T15:14:53Z")
I have not seen a one - and I live across the street from Forest Preserves, and my back yard is a golf course. I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084/51 "2007-05-29T15:26:04Z")
Nothing. Not a corpse. Not a head-on into the windows. Nothing. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084/52 "2007-05-29T17:12:09Z")
Saw one in Hickory Hills…and ate it. (First cicada. Tastes a lot better than it looks). As for in the city? Haven’t seen a single one. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084/53 "2007-05-29T22:24:09Z")
Today I took another walk in the Forest Preserve. I heard them singing for the first time. Not super-loud, but noticeable. I also saw and heard them elsewhere in the Forest Preserve. ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084/54 "2007-05-31T00:17:04Z")
The family and I just went for a cicada hunt in the Northfield Woods. Plenty of cicadas about, but not the 1.5 million per square inch that I was hoping for. They’re starting to sing from the treetops. My son grabbed a few for his bug box and we now have those cicadas in our backyard tree. I haven’t worked up the nerve to eat one though. I’ll see if I can get my 7 year old to eat one. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084/55 "2007-05-31T06:29:05Z")
I’m on Sheridan Road by Loyola and the Lake and I haven’t seen or heard a single one. Though that map seems to show I should have some around here. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084/56 "2007-05-31T06:39:29Z")
[QUOTE=pulykamell] Saw one in Hickory Hills…and ate it. (First cicada. Tastes a lot better than it looks). As for in the city? Haven’t seen a single one. [/QUOTE] As I said earlier…Is there anything you Merkins don’t eat? Cicadas…ew, I mean ewwwww :eek: ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084/57 "2007-05-31T21:06:36Z")
I again walked through the Forest Preserve. A great increase in their numbers and singing from just two days ago. There were loud continual choruses I could hear from 1/4 mile away. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084/58 "2007-05-31T21:27:13Z")
All right, where the heck are these things? In the last two nights I’ve tried the trees opposite the Glen Ellyn train station and the Meacham Grove Forest Preserve, and seen nothing. As in, Not One Bug. Where do you look for them? Are they on the grass, in the bushes, on tree trunks, or up in the branches? ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084/59 "2007-06-01T01:36:18Z")
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] Are they on the grass, [/QUOTE] yes [QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] in the bushes, [/QUOTE] yes [QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] on tree trunks, [/QUOTE] yes [QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] or up in the branches? [/QUOTE] there too. Everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084/60 "2007-06-01T02:03:45Z")
But where oh where? Can someone give me a location in DuPage County where I’m guaranteed to find these buggers? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-area-dopers-seen-any-of-those-ugly-little-bastids-yet/405084.md?page=4)