# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/21 "2011-05-31T02:30:29Z")
Central Illinois- we have them. I went outside to water a plant and when I came back in one was clinging to me. I was outside for about a minute. When I go outside the buzzing sounds like a horror movie. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/22 "2011-05-31T03:33:22Z")
We don’t get that kind up here, [just annual ones](http://www.nhpr.org/node/26369). I haven’t heard any yet, and most years don’t notice them. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/23 "2011-05-31T14:39:33Z")
[The cicada invasion begins](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=607922). > [@lukeinva](#): > > \*\* > > Don’t you mean the 13 year cicadas? The 17’s were just here in 2001. (Northern Virginia). The 2001 broods were [in New York](http://www.magicicada.org/about/brood_pages/broodVII.php) and [along the Louisiana/Mississippi line](http://www.magicicada.org/about/brood_pages/broodXXII.php). Do you mean [2004](http://www.magicicada.org/about/brood_pages/broodX.php) or [1996](http://www.magicicada.org/about/brood_pages/broodII.php)? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/24 "2011-06-01T13:51:44Z")
There are over 200 species of Australian Cicadas and they only live underground as nymphs for 6 or 7 years. So, in Sydney at least, Cicadas are the sound of summer every year. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/25 "2011-06-01T16:55:22Z")
I guess it is the 13 year ones. 🙂 The map link in my OP is for 2011 Magicicada Brood XIX (XIX is 19 isn’t it?) \ anyway, it’s the big one this year. Arkansas has them this year. > [@lukeinva](#): > > \*\* > > Don’t you mean the 13 year cicadas? The 17’s were just here in 2001. (Northern Virginia). ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/26 "2011-06-01T19:39:41Z")
I’m just West of Little Rock in Central Arkansas; nary a one. ---
**Author:** ![BetsQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/27 "2011-06-01T20:54:32Z")
I’m in MD. We had Brood X in 2004 - it was really overwhelming. The sites linked to suggest that this year’s Brood XIX extends to MD as well, but I haven’t seen any sign of them so far. We have the annual variety every summer, though. ---
**Author:** ![Jelly\_Roll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Jelly\_Roll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jelly_Roll)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/28 "2011-06-01T21:11:47Z")
Middle Tennessee here and they are indeed everywhere. I look like I’m having a seizure when I’m outside, trying to avoid the nasty things. I am convinced they are straight from Satan. On the up side, it does appear that they are starting to die off finally. Maybe another week or so? ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563/29 "2011-06-01T21:28:49Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > We don’t get that kind up here, [just annual ones](http://www.nhpr.org/node/26369). I haven’t heard any yet, and most years don’t notice them. I think those are the ones we get too. Never a big swarm, just a few here and there, buzzing in the trees. You might see one husk a year. ETA: Someone told me the flying adults have no mouths. They just come out to procreate and die. Is that true? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicadas-seen-any-yet-in-your-area/583563.md?page=1)