# Cicada's - seen any yet in your area? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 28, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563 "2011-05-28T14:53:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/1 "2011-05-28T14:53:42Z")
That time again. After 17 years underground it’s time to come out and shed their shells & mate. Map of 2011 sightings. [http://magicicada.org/databases/magicicada/map.html](http://magicicada.org/databases/magicicada/map.html) Thankfully, we never get too many. Nothing like what they show on youtube. Some of those people shovel the husks. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mah26og11ms/hqdefault.jpg "Summer cicada sound and video") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mah26og11ms) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/oqys8lKsu4s/hqdefault.jpg "The Sound of Cicadas -- Amazing Noise of Dense Cicadas") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqys8lKsu4s) I like their calls (unless there are too many). You have any this year? ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/2 "2011-05-28T15:01:31Z")
I thought I may have heard one yesterday, but if so he was definitely early to the party. In the midsummer they’re pretty much constant. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/3 "2011-05-28T15:44:33Z")
I’m dealing with Brood XIX of the 13 year cicadas. The other day I stepped out of the house only to haveone of the little (ha!) bastids land on the back of my neck. (((((Shudder)))))) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/4 "2011-05-28T17:07:14Z")
> [@Cub\_Mistress](#): > > I’m dealing with Brood XIX of the 13 year cicadas. The other day I stepped out of the house only to haveone of the little (ha!) bastids land on the back of my neck. (((((Shudder)))))) Similar in Nashville. Husks everywhere and the drone is constant. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/5 "2011-05-28T18:05:06Z")
We have Brood XIX here too. They have been around for about two weeks now. The birds like to eat the bodies and leave the heads and wings behind. Ew. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/6 "2011-05-28T18:27:15Z")
We get the yearly kind down here (Florida)-haven’t heard them yet. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/7 "2011-05-28T18:41:51Z")
Seen one shell so far. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/8 "2011-05-28T20:47:22Z")
Go to Provence, France. The cicada is one of the symbols of that area. ---
**Author:** ![volcano\_snail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c89c15/32.png) [@volcano\_snail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/volcano_snail)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/9 "2011-05-29T03:15:35Z")
I have seen quite a few lately and usually here them when I go out. They aren’t exactly swarming yet though. I’m in St. Louis. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/10 "2011-05-29T07:46:31Z")
Cicadas don’t make themselves known in my area until mid-summer. Whether they’re yearly or periodical I have no idea. They’re all the same to me :shrug: ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/11 "2011-05-29T19:37:50Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > I thought I may have heard one yesterday, but if so he was definitely early to the party. In the midsummer they’re pretty much constant. Yeah, I thought I heard one last night while walking the dog–right before the dog ate it–but they’re not out in general. Maybe it was something else I heard. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/12 "2011-05-30T00:53:16Z")
Haven’t seen or heard any yet in southern Indiana. But listening to the videos made me smile-that is the sound of my childhood summers. ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_N.Cheese)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/13 "2011-05-30T01:55:04Z")
I’ve seen quite a few but only heard them for the first time this morning. (St. Louis area.) There was a small train of perfectly spaced shells going up the garage door seal. All the dogs in the neighborhood seem to like them. Crunchy goodness. ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/14 "2011-05-30T02:18:12Z")
We had a 17-year cicada invasion about 10 years ago (Maryland), so I hope we’re not getting another one just yet. I guess we have a different brood here. Last time it was disgusting…the damn things were everywhere. The dog would eat them, and throw them back up inside the house. The noise level was unbelievable. I do know that sound, though; we have cicadas (or some kind of locust) that come out every year, but they’re pretty unobtrusive. That buzzing sound does say ‘summer’ to me, though. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/15 "2011-05-30T03:32:12Z")
Chicago has Brood XIII cicadas, which emerged in 2007. We live in an older neighborhood, where the ground and trees have remained largely undisturbed for decades (prime real estate for cicadas), and the number of them (and the _sound_) was just amazing. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/16 "2011-05-30T03:59:16Z")
I’m in St. Louis and have them swarming all over all my trees, my fences are covered with them and I don’t want to touch the trash cans outside because they’re crawling all over them. I also have cicada towers in my lawn from where they burrowed their way out of the ground. Just walking to the car this morning, I and my daughter had several land on us. The roar is constant. I guess it depends on which part of St. Louis you’re in - our neighborhood is older with large, old trees and lots of wooded common ground. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/17 "2011-05-30T04:10:52Z")
Middle Tennessee here. They are everywhere. I hate, hate, hate them. I have an irrational fear of large bugs and these guys trigger that like nothing else. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/18 "2011-05-30T11:21:06Z")
Boston, MA area reporting in: I haven’t heard any or seen any. I live next to a 44 acre wooded park, so I’m sure I willhear them. The latest reports are from Yonkers NY-about 100 miles south of here…I’m sure they will be waking up soon. What kind of internal clock to these bugs have? 13 years is a long time to sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/19 "2011-05-31T01:44:21Z")
I just spent a useless half hour knocking tons of them off a tree with a garden hose sprayer set on “ninja”. I know they will just be back tomorrow, but I couldn’t help myself. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/20 "2011-05-31T01:58:16Z")
- > [@](#): > > That time again. After 17 years underground it’s time to come out and shed their shells & mate. - Don’t you mean the 13 year cicadas? The 17’s were just here in 2001. (Northern Virginia). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563.md?page=2)