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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 01:46 PM
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Cicada Watch - Who's Got 'Em?
Edited on Wed May-19-04 01:51 PM by VolcanoJen
Last weekend's thread here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=1143185#1149279

In Cincinnati, around the Glendale/Springdale/Forest Park area, they're everywhere. Literally hundreds on trees. Last night's rain and today's warm sun have brought them out in droves. It's fascinating!! I've been out all afternoon photographing them around my workplace... I'll post the best ones here.

Hey, Cush... any new photos?

I didn't take these, but here are some wonderful recent Cincinnati Enquirer reader's photos:




Emerging Nymph (Hyde Park Neighborhood)


Cicada Nymphs... This bird wouldn't give up her prime feeding spot, photographers be damned!(Westwood Neighborhood)


Fresh from the shell! (Greenhills Neighborhood)


May 18, 2004 - ready-to-mate! (Westwood Neighborhood)
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commander bunnypants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 01:46 PM
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1. Eagerly awaiting in VA
DDQM
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Commendatori Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 03:18 PM
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11. Same here, and the only one I've seen was
on my office carpet in downtown D.C. today. Amazing.
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Penndems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 10:25 PM
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28. They're definitely in Reston, Virginia
Heard 'em this afternoon when I got to my doctor's office for an appointment. The sound was almost deafening.

Haven't heard them here in Woodbridge yet but they are, no doubt, on their way here.
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TheBlob Donating Member (805 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 01:49 PM
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2. I'm not expecting too much here in NYC n/t
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Lin Donating Member (594 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 01:50 PM
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3. Lin in Mass checking in, nothing much yet...shhhhhh <eom>
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flagstaff419 Donating Member (5 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 01:50 PM
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4. Who's Got 'Em?
Not yet in Western Michigan...maybe further south in Southern Indiana? Remember being scared by some there as a kid!
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wysimdnwyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 01:54 PM
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5. Have yet to see one
In the Nashville area.
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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 01:54 PM
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6. Got em here in DC
Pretty bad in certain spots too.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 01:55 PM
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7. Cicada Brood X - Affected Areas Map Here
Courtesy of Cincinnati's College of Mount St. Joseph. There are better maps, but this is a good start...
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NewYorkerfromMass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 05:13 PM
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19. Found a good map and page here
http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/michigan_cicadas/Periodical/BroodX.html

I am confounded or my memory is wrong but I swear when I was a boy in Springfield, Mass I remember being subjected to a chorus of them one year. This page indicates they never occur in Mass.

http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/michigan_cicadas/Periodical/Index.html
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 05:22 PM
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22. Great reference, and you're one lucky Massachusetts Resident, NewYorker!!
:D :D :D
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Roaming Donating Member (476 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 02:27 PM
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8. Dang those things are UGLY... thankfully none here in Wisconsin...
although I think there are two different types--one type comes out every year, and the other every 13-17 years. The yearly ones are faster-moving -- I think we get those around here. I saw one last summer and it scared me half to death. At first I thought it was a freakishly huge horsefly.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 02:44 PM
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10. Yes... these are the 17-year cicadas.
A few yearly cicadas pop up over the summer... they look a little darker, and they definitely move faster.

This group, the 17-year Brood X, move quite a bit slower. The birds and squirrels are having a feast!!
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 05:15 PM
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20. By the way... I find them oddly beautiful.
But, then again, I'm weird.
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 02:34 PM
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9. Haven't noticed any in Southeastern Michigan yet
But we''re supposed to have a bumper crop this year. They're cool looking bugs. My wife and I watched one come out of its shell on our front door a couple years ago. It was fascinating.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 04:05 PM
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14. You may be spared....
... check out the affected-areas-map, above. There are better, more accurate and detailed maps out there. Do a Google for "cicada brood x".

However, if you haven't seen any evidence of them yet, you may never see them. Do you have little holes, and mud chimneys, around the bases of the trees in your yard?

Celebrate cicada-mania,
Jennifer :-)
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C_eh_N_eh_D_eh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 03:54 PM
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12. Are cicadas safe to be around?
Can they live in slightly colder temperatures?

If someone were to smuggle a huge swarm of cicadas into Ontario, would they muscle out the local mosquitoes, thereby letting us enjoy a summer day outdoors for once? I can live with a little noise...

Ah, who'm I kidding? Between the skeeters and the black flies we got up here, your little noisemakers wouldn't last two rounds.
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commander bunnypants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 03:55 PM
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13. you can eat em
boiled suateed and or fried with hot sauce

DDQM
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BaltoLefty Donating Member (38 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 04:18 PM
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15. We have thousands of them
in Northeast Baltimore city. I have a love/hate relationship with them - they're cool and at the same time - ICK! You can't turn around without looking into some beady red eyes, you can't take a step without - CRUNCH! - stepping on one of them. There definitely seem to be 2 kinds - smaller ones about one inch long (incl wings) and monster ones 2-3" long. Don't know if they're different breeds or the difference is male/female.

Don't know if this year they'll be as loud as the 87 swarm, when it was hard to hold a conversation outside.

Cindy
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qanda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 04:30 PM
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16. I live in Glen Burnie, MD and today my kids
Found the first one in our backyard. I was in the Washington area 17 years ago and it was soooo bad, I remember them being everywhere-- I'm *not* looking forward to that.
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 04:32 PM
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17. I Remember When They Came Out in 1962
I was growing up in New Jersey at the time, and the sound was deafening. In july of that year, my Cuban foster brother (who got out of Cuba in Castro's airlift earlier that year) came to live with us. He didn't speak much English at first, and it was difficult explaining the cicadas to him.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 04:53 PM
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18. My Italian-born boss calls them..
...chee-cah-dah. :D
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 05:22 PM
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21. I haven't see or heard a damn ONE of them.
And I'm only up the road a little ways (OK, 80 miles or so) from Jen. I thought that they woke me up last Sunday, but it was only a weed whacker. Hey, I was groggy.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 05:25 PM
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23. They came late.
The local Cincinnati news was hyping their appearance two weekends past, but I didn't see the little red-eyed-bastards in my own neighborhood untill late last night...

Our DC/Maryland/Virginia DUers were reporting the brunt of them last weekend... warmer there... I think Ohio might be about two weeks behind on the Brood X "outbreak."

These little guys are cool!!
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 07:36 PM
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24. Kickin' for Cicada Players and Haters alike
:D
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Waverley_Hills_Hiker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 07:38 PM
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25. none yet in my part of Washington Twp (s suburban Dayton).
Maybe I need to make a trip to the Queen City to get my fix?
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 07:49 PM
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26. I have a feeling they'll emerge in your 'hood any day now, Waverley!!!
I was in Dayton during the '87 emergence, and while they're not as prevalent in Dayton as they are in Cincinnati, they still can't be missed...

Any day now... :D
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Norbert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-04 07:50 PM
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27. Lots of them on my brack house in Cincinnati
The pods and cicadas are everywhere the last few days, even on my lamp post. Not a whole lot of noise yet.
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