Oh my God, that picture is terrifying.

If those things aren't gone by my OUTDOOR wedding in September, I'm going to freak.

In the DC area they're supposed to be here in late May, and they die in a few weeks. I don't know what's going on elsewhere, but you should be OK.

That is what I was thinking!

You bitch.

That's one of the cuter pictures I found. We decided to make the cicada our department's mascot, and I have a real big ugly one tacked up on my bulletin board.

Cicada songs are one of my favorite summer things. (Along with fireflies, barbeques and walking barefoot in the grass.)

The only time I remember cicadas being around in huge numbers was the spring/summer that I was in 4th grade...so that would've been in 1991. :confused:

Not all are 17 year cicadas, some have shorter cycles. It also appears that they emerge in different areas at different times. Geeky Penguin's link has a table as to when the come to each area.

But if you live in the mid-atlantic area, LOOK OUT BEEYOTCH!

AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!


I HATE those things!!!! They are so gross!! They freaked me out when I was little. I do remember them being around alot in '89...one flew into my helmet during a little league game. my coach yelled at me for flinging my helmet off until he found out why.

i guess we must have mutant ones in nj/penn, cause every summer i hear at least one.

Don't know about SE Ohio, but we got in SW Ohio 17 years ago (I don't remember getting any in the past few years). My memories of the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History nad my 3rd grade field trips are shaded by the fact that we left our bus windows down and came back to seats COVERED in dead bugs.

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

I like them. I use to go out every night during the summer when i was younger (I think i was 11 or 12)and collect them, placed them on my curtains in my bedroom and watched them hatch then let them go in the morning. But then again I like most bugs and animals-I guess that is why I love my job :).

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

THAT IS THE SCARIEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD

Dude you totally wigged me out.

-Rudey
--And you're a vet, not a bug lady!

Another DC girl here. UGH! I didn't know about these things. I'm a West Coaster, transplanted here. Yet another thing to despise about my adopted home (heat, humidity, traffic, cicadas, Republicans....will it never end?).;)

I remember them being out when I was younger and they totally freaked me out. My dad took me to a park that was close to our house and it was like infested with them. I was so scared that I would not even get out of the car. Now that wonderful park that had all those evil little creatures is right across the street from my school. I am really ready for spring and warm weather, but if the cicadas are anything like I remember last time I am sprinting to class and going outside as little as possible.