Cicadas are coming to South Bend

[Guido]

I just read an article that the Brood XIII cicadas will begin to emerge from the ground around June 1. This is a group of bugs that emerge every 17 years and live for approximately 30 days with the sole objective of producing offspring. While they are harmless (and some say good to eat), I suspect they will only create noise for us.

[bondobilly]

This first time I saw them when they emerged from our property I nearly took a dump in my pants. They looked like flys on steroids and we were over run with them. What a strange noise, and worse yet the noise when you roll over them with a car. Guess they will be showing up here too.

Eeech

[bondobilly]

This first time I saw them when they emerged from our property I nearly took a dump in my pants. They looked like flys on steroids and we were over run with them. What a strange noise, and worse yet the noise when you roll over them with a car. Guess they will be showing up here too.

Eeech

[JDP]

Bill the east got ours a few years back, this group is just hatching in the Indiana, Ohio area.

JDP/Maryland


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[JDP]

Bill the east got ours a few years back, this group is just hatching in the Indiana, Ohio area.

JDP/Maryland


63 GT R2
63 Avanti R1
63 Daytona convert
63 Lark 2 door
62 Lark 2 door
60 Lark HT-60Hawk
59 3E truck
58 Starlight
52 & 53 Starliner
51 Commander

[Chris Pile]

Pretty common critters here in southeast Kansas. When we were kids we would hunt for their shells when they moulted. And yes, they are noisy!

Chris Pile
The Studebaker Special
Midway Chapter SDC

[Chris Pile]

Pretty common critters here in southeast Kansas. When we were kids we would hunt for their shells when they moulted. And yes, they are noisy!

Chris Pile
The Studebaker Special
Midway Chapter SDC

[bondobilly]

Time flies when your having fun. Did not have a time reference.

However they are ugly, large, and very noisy.

Time Warp

[bondobilly]

Time flies when your having fun. Did not have a time reference.

However they are ugly, large, and very noisy.

Time Warp

[glen]

Even have them here in the "North Central Zone"....


glen Brose
Tumbleweed Flats, AZ

[glen]

Even have them here in the "North Central Zone"....


glen Brose
Tumbleweed Flats, AZ

[glen]

No....not quite like the elusive and seldom seen "Snipe",
just bugs that like to hang out in trees....and then start
making a lot of loud noise when you come up to them or
something else sets them off.....


glen Brose
Tumbleweed Flats, AZ

[glen]

No....not quite like the elusive and seldom seen "Snipe",
just bugs that like to hang out in trees....and then start
making a lot of loud noise when you come up to them or
something else sets them off.....


glen Brose
Tumbleweed Flats, AZ

[Guido]

This batch (Brood XII) have been underground for the past 17 years. As youngsters they burrowed into the ground and have been subsisting off of the roots of trees ever since. When the soil temperature hits 64-65 degrees they emerge head up into trees. The noise that you hear is their mating call. They will be gone in 30 days after they appear.

[Guido]

This batch (Brood XII) have been underground for the past 17 years. As youngsters they burrowed into the ground and have been subsisting off of the roots of trees ever since. When the soil temperature hits 64-65 degrees they emerge head up into trees. The noise that you hear is their mating call. They will be gone in 30 days after they appear.