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My 8-yo found this creature while digging in the yard
Posted on 5/6/24 at 6:41 pm
Posted on 5/6/24 at 6:41 pm
Sitting outside watching him dig and play in the mud and he brings this over. What in tarnation is this? It’s soft to the touch. Is (was) it hibernating? Do I need to move?
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Posted on 5/6/24 at 7:44 pm to meeple
Cicada. My dogs are dead set on digging up and eating every one of them.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 8:05 pm to Loup
Ok at least I don’t have to nuke my yard. It wiggles every now and then. Probably ticked that he woke too soon.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 8:20 pm to meeple
They have emerged and are going crazy in NC now. I’ve never heard the “emergency vehicle” sound from the trees this loud during past emergences.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 8:43 pm to Ric Flair
We’re supposed to have a super swarm of cicadas this summer. Only happens every hundred years or something
This post was edited on 5/7/24 at 6:42 am
Posted on 5/6/24 at 8:44 pm to meeple
A young version of a periodical cicada.
It was probably not far from emerging, and would have gone through one more molt after emerging. A few hours after that molt it would have looked like the above picture.
I have thousands of them emerging around my place right now.
It was probably not far from emerging, and would have gone through one more molt after emerging. A few hours after that molt it would have looked like the above picture.
I have thousands of them emerging around my place right now.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 8:49 pm to Ric Flair
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They have emerged and are going crazy in NC now. I’ve never heard the “emergency vehicle” sound from the trees this loud during past emergences.
Y'all are a bit ahead of us here in north AL emergence. Today was the first day they've really started trying to sing. It is usually a week or so after emergence really starts before they'll start to sing in chorus. Only the males sing to attract the females. Different broods that emerge in the same area can have different songs that some people can tell apart. I'm not one of those people, it all just sounds like racket to me.
This post was edited on 5/6/24 at 8:50 pm
Posted on 5/6/24 at 9:11 pm to meeple
my terrier mix is stuffed full of them right now. She looks like a sausage
Posted on 5/7/24 at 8:54 am to Loup
when we lived in Longview our weenie dog would have a field day on digging them up and eating them. little holes everywhere
Posted on 5/7/24 at 11:32 am to TTU97NI
east Ala is eaten up with them. the whirring at home is almost intolerable during the day. liken it to some cheap sound effects from the old Star Trek series. now there flying and ending up all over the ground.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 12:36 pm to meeple
Cigale de nuit
Posted on 5/7/24 at 12:42 pm to Jmcc64
I counted 23 just on my porch this morning. They're starting to sing today, but still a couple days away from full chorus.
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