I. Am. Terrified. I wish I could just go to sleep when they start emerging from the ground and not wake up until they're all dead. Just thinking about it gives me cold sweats.
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My husband was just telling me about this. Ahhhh! Bugs are the worst. How long is it supposed to last!
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@photojane: From what I've read, about a month. Which is a month too long.
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Where is this happening?
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@Jennimac: They'll stretch along the East Coast, from N Georgia to New York.
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I am so thankful I'm not on the East Coast anymore right now!
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Omg, apparently it's already happening in NC. Ahhhh!
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Oh my!!!!! I don't think we have anything like that in Arkansas, but I could be wrong.
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NY like...as far up as Upstate NY? OMG. Ew.
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I love cicadas. My dogs growing up when bananas for them...
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I am such a nerd! I wish I could see it. It's just crazy to me that the insects were born 17 years ago and then emerge as adults so many season later. I think it's awesome. But then again m house isn't completely covered in them.
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We always have them in the summer. Sometimes they are so loud we have to close the windows.
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@mrbee: Who loves cicadas?
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.
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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.
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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.
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Cicadas are disgusting. I am not looking forward to the invasion.
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@tlcbaby: my dogs were obsessed with them... guess their love rubbed off on me!
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@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?
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I had a nightmare about this....I'm not even joking. I wish I could hibernate in my house until it's over!!
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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.
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@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!
We ended up freezing a bunch of cicadas for him as treats...
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@mrbee: That is the funniest thing I have ever heard! Maybe someone should market cicada dog treats!
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@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!
@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 : )
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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.
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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!
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@mediagirl: That is me too! Although, it's true of any bug that gets on me...
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@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!
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@Weagle: hahhaha LOL.. it's not that bad.
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@MrBee: my dog looked at me this morning with a cicada hanging from her lips.
They're creepy, but they don't scare me.
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@Happygal: If your dog loves them as much as mine did, you should maybe freeze some for her! Cheapest treat ever...
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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!
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ew! i just googled...blegh. glad I seem to be far enough north to avoid this!
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wtf! what is this! what! what!! @sorrycharlie: I don't want to google so PLEASE tell me we are in the clear!!!
I am also traveling to lake michigan this weekend, will I get dive-bombed by cicadas over there?!?!?
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"!!!
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@Mrs. Train: 17 year old cicadas/!??!?!?!?!? What?!?!?? What monsters of evil spawn are these?!??!?!
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@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 - 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 - 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.
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Gross!!!!! This is the first I'm hearing of this!!
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@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).
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.
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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.
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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*
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@littlek: Have you seen them yet? Several NoVa friends have been seeing them.
@NaturallyCathy: Until 3 years ago, I lived my life in the south. I never saw them!
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