not like a doomsday prepper... like this cicada bug.... so many bugs here we created a screen room.. we call it the hut... in the shade... the large fans are roaring it's so hot....and we have a jigsaw puzzle table up.... the cicadas are cranked up this morning... do you have them in your area?
We have them every year, but so far none this year, not sure why. We have had an abnormally large amount of rain, and cooler weather than normal for summer here in Alabama, and I am wondering if the extra rain either drowned them, or somehow stopped them from coming out of the ground. Usually by now, they are all over and making noise incessantly.
i wish you a peaceful cooler summer.... there's an unknown disease killing songbirds... started on east coast... Audubon society has advised people to take down feeders... research they're doing links one possibility of a fungus carried by the cicada
If they are out I would not know. I stay in doors when hot. But I have read they are out in many areas.
I heard a some a few weeks ago. But not that many. I haven't heard them lately. I believe they are periodical here. I remember about five years ago, they sounded like all the banshees in hell broke lose. Day and night.
We have cicadas here in the trees all the time. They are very noisy. This is the year for a swarm of The 17 Year Cicada. These are different than out routine residents. For the curious:
I haven't heard any on Long Island where I live, however we were told that we might have mass emergence. Some experts say that we will get minimal emergence because in 2004 the last time we had an emergence we had very little. Yes there are birds that eat cicada, I remember starling being one, snakes and some frogs will also eat them.
Yes, we have them. Between the cicadas and the tree frogs, it can get pretty noisy near the woods in the evenings.
Dogs will eat the swarms of cicadas until they get sick to their stomachs from overeating. Eating the bugs is not harmful to them. I wasn't gonna post this map of the 17 year cicadas because it's so darned cluttered and confusing, but I changed my mind. I did not realize that there were different swarms on different cycles. Brood X (shown in yellow) will be seen in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio, and eastern Tennessee in 2021. Here's a brief article in Vox.
we're out early this am....no sun...balmy...the cicadas are quiet...for now... yea!...something eats these massive bugs... ps.....hope that back feels better!