They're here DC, you cannot escape!

[Kingofalldems]

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[Irish_Dem]

1. I remember when they were here the last time.

It was so much fun to see your car covered with insects.

[bottomofthehill]

2. Not looking forward to it.

My dogs already live chasing bees, this will be too easy for them.

[a kennedy]

3. Ack........how long have they been underground??

They are country wide aren’t they??

[Kingofalldems]

4. I think just the east.

17 yrs.

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Chicago has another three years until ours surface again.

Good luck with them. Last time here was awful.

[appalachiablue]

6. Make sure to try to keep them out of

your hair, eyes and mouth! Lol.

They fly some and will be everywhere- in car doors, windows, trees..

My dogs scarfed up the ones along the sidewalk- yum, like pralines!



Meet Brood X (Brood 10), the Great Eastern Brood, is one of 15 broods of periodical cicadas that appear regularly throughout the eastern United States. It has the greatest range and concentration of any of the 17-year cicadas.

Every 17 years, Brood X cicada nymphs tunnel upwards en masse to emerge from the surface of the ground. The insects then shed their skins on trees and other surfaces, thus becoming adults. The mature cicadas fly, mate, lay eggs in twigs, and then die within several weeks. The combination of the insects' long underground life, their nearly simultaneous emergence from the ground in vast numbers and their short period of adulthood allows the brood to survive even massive predation.

Brood X is endemic in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, eastern Tennessee and other areas throughout the eastern United states. The brood contains three species, Magicicada septendecim, Magicicada cassinii and Magicicada septendecula, that congregate on different trees and have different male songs. The brood's most recent major emergence occurred during the spring of 2004.

The population of Brood X on New York's Long Island disappeared before the 2004 emergence. An entomologist with Cornell University’s integrated pest management program has suggested that widespread tree removal during development and pesticide use on the island caused the brood's extinction there.
> The brood's next major emergence will take place during 2021 in 15 states (Delaware, Illinois, Georgia, Indiana, New York, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Michigan), as well as in Washington, D.C...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brood_X

[Demovictory9]

7. ugh

[Leith]

8. Yuck!

And I thought the locusts were bad a couple years ago.