https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 08 May 2026 13:49:02 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion/page/2#post-798802 Tue, 21 May 2013 16:47:33 +0000 Ash 798802@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: me too!</p> <p>Yuck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-798797 Tue, 21 May 2013 16:44:05 +0000 Weagle 798797@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlek: Have you seen them yet? Several NoVa friends have been seeing them. </p> <p>@NaturallyCathy: Until 3 years ago, I lived my life in the south. I never saw them! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-798125 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:59:08 +0000 JennyLayneAZ 798125@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've never been happier to reside in the southwest than I am right now! Sorry to all of you who have to endure them! *shudder* </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-798116 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:57:34 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 798116@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They don't really bother me but having lived in the south all my life, I'm used to them. There's some species of cicadas that come more frequently, like every few years. When the ones you're talking about hit TN, I was like @MamaMoose: There were people with umbrellas! It was crazy. I was that spazz freaking out whenever they dive bombed me. Hated being outside but not grossed out by them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-798081 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:45:42 +0000 mrs. wagon 798081@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sorrycharlie: omg. thank you for that. It took a few minutes to get up the courage to click the link (and when I did, I put my hand up to my computer screen so I could figure out where the photo was, then scrolled past it). </p> <p>Oh my god. Coming up out of the ground after 17 years to have sex, then have the babies burrow back into the ground. Goodness Gracious. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-798069 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:42:32 +0000 chopsuey 798069@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Gross!!!!! This is the first I'm hearing of this!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-798050 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:36:50 +0000 sorrycharlie 798050@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. wagon: I'm snorting at your posts! that's what i was thinking yesterday. this is a somewhat safe link, only one photo at the top of a cicada, and it looks like a fly with red eyes. no swarming photos - <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cicada-invasion-on-the-way-as-insects-with-bulging-red-eyes-crawl-out-of-the-earth-after-17-years-underground-8605872.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cicada-invasion-on-the-way-as-insects-with-bulging-red-eyes-crawl-out-of-the-earth-after-17-years-underground-8605872.html</a> - and i felt did a decent job of briefing me on what's going down, hahaha. it estimates East Coast from the Carolinas to CT, from what I read online. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-798024 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:29:10 +0000 mrs. wagon 798024@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Train: 17 year old cicadas/!??!?!?!?!? What?!?!?? What monsters of evil spawn are these?!??!?! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-798019 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:28:34 +0000 mrs. wagon 798019@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>wtf! what is this! what! what!! @sorrycharlie: I don't want to google so PLEASE tell me we are in the clear!!!</p> <p>I am also traveling to lake michigan this weekend, will I get dive-bombed by cicadas over there?!?!?</p> <p>Ahhhhh!!!! Normally I don't go all freak out obnoxious and ignorant but I REALLY do not want to google anything involving the word "cicada"!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-797982 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:20:43 +0000 sorrycharlie 797982@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>ew! i just googled...blegh. glad I seem to be far enough north to avoid this! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-797730 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:11:27 +0000 Foodnerd81 797730@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was in NJ for the last time they came and I don't remember them being THAT bad. I do remember one coming in the window of the bus and getting caught in a girl's hair or uniform or something so she had to sort of go crazy to get it out, which was pretty gross (for her, funny for everyone else!), and I remember it being a bit loud and that people put tinfoil on the bottom of trees or something. But it really wasn't a big deal. I just can't believe that was 17 years ago! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-797718 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:06:50 +0000 mrbee 797718@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Happygal: If your dog loves them as much as mine did, you should maybe freeze some for her! Cheapest treat ever... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-797716 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:06:10 +0000 Happygal 797716@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrBee: my dog looked at me this morning with a cicada hanging from her lips. </p> <p>They're creepy, but they don't scare me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-797624 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:45:04 +0000 littlek 797624@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Weagle: hahhaha LOL.. it's not that bad. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-797621 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:44:09 +0000 Vegmama 797621@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@citymouse: We're originally from the midwest, which has a ton of these bugs in the summer ... My husband would put their shells on the dash of my car, or sitting on a door knob. Awful! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-797533 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:27:53 +0000 swurlygurl 797533@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: That is me too! Although, it's true of any bug that gets on me... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-797526 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:26:44 +0000 swurlygurl 797526@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh no, why did you have to remind me?! I forgot about those creepy bugs... they always attack us at the lake when we go from cabin to cabin at night - EW! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-797469 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:15:25 +0000 citymouse 797469@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They definitely creep me out!! My FIL sent us a picture of HUNDREDS of shells all around the bottoms of his trees. GROSS!!! I do however love watching that episode of Planet Earth, because it truly is an amazing thing. But totally totally gross. ;-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-797093 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:55:18 +0000 MamaMoose 797093@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: OMG when they start getting towards the end if they haven't found a mate they get DESPERATE and they will dive bomb you. When they came out in Nashville a couple of years ago it was not uncomming to see people using an umbrella just to fend of cicada attacks. I haaaaate them!</p> <p>@mrbee: It's actually really common for pups to find cicadas to be a tasty treat. I lectured my dog about how in our family we do NOT like the cicadas : ) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-797087 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:51:41 +0000 tlcbaby 797087@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: That is the funniest thing I have ever heard! Maybe someone should market cicada dog treats! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-797066 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:42:31 +0000 mrbee 797066@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tlcbaby: One of my dogs would chase them and eat them! Once we ran out, I didn't know how to tell him that he probably wouldn't live to see cicadas ever again!</p> <p>We ended up freezing a bunch of cicadas for him as treats... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-797040 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:28:22 +0000 mediagirl 797040@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm not as worried down here because I think they're mostly north and west of us. I lived in DC when the last batch came out there. It. Was. AWFUL. I had a few land in my hair and I was that crazy person on the street, shrieking and shaking my hair to get them out. OMG. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-797022 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:18:16 +0000 petunia354 797022@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had a nightmare about this....I'm not even joking. I wish I could hibernate in my house until it's over!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-797017 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:14:22 +0000 tlcbaby 797017@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: That is funny - this will be the first time I have had dogs when the cicadas came out. I wonder how they will feel about them? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-796990 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:44:41 +0000 mrbee 796990@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tlcbaby: my dogs were obsessed with them... guess their love rubbed off on me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-796988 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:42:25 +0000 avivoca 796988@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Cicadas are disgusting. I am not looking forward to the invasion. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-796979 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:28:57 +0000 Dandelion 796979@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They don't bother me. They haven't emerged, yet, in my part of SC, but we've been in the middle of many invasions. They're just loud for a while and don't hurt anyone. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-796968 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:06:27 +0000 JerricaBenton 796968@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I remember thinking they were pretty cool as a kid. I remember that noise like it was yesterday! I'm only nervous our little dog will freak out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-796884 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:50:00 +0000 tlcbaby 796884@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: Who loves cicadas? :) </p> <p>I remember them being pretty bad here last time - I was playing golf and the dead ones were all over the golf course. It was disgusting. I mostly remember seeing the dead ones, though. Never, like, swarms of cicadas flying around. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-scared-of-the-impending-cicada-invasion#post-796842 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:46:57 +0000 mrsmenow 796842@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We always have them in the summer. Sometimes they are so loud we have to close the windows. </p>