re: Cicada apocalypse 2024 - biggest since 1803

Think about the billions of cicadas that are buried under Walmart parking lots and will not be able to emerge, dying a slow and painful death.

And this is how the zombie apocalypse starts.

Let them eat Chicago, St. Louis, and Baltimore.

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I enjoy summertime cicadas. It’s part of summer.

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This. The sound takes me back to my youth. I don’t understand why people are annoyed or disturbed by them.

How will this affect crawfish prices?

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entomologists and bug aficionados

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They get really loud at our house bc surrounded by dense forest. The entirety of Upstate SC is a red blob on that map. Good camping noises.

I was at my sister’s house in Maryland outside of DC about 3 years ago for my nephew’s HS graduation. The party was inside and outside and those damn things were so loud that it made normal conversation difficult. It was insane how many they had and how loud they were even during daylight. They don’t just come out at night like the ones here.

It’s a smaller species of cicada but there are millions of them.

I was 10 when I heard my first cicadas. I had lived in Hawaii until that time. My grandfather in Texas was dying of cancer and I had not seen him since I was 2. So, I was bowling in a summer rec program and was picked up mid-game to head to Texas. When we arrived, I remember hearing all the Cicada and seeing the brown shells on the trees. My grandfather's room was out on a screened in porch so you could hear the Cicada noises all night.

So, when I hear them, I sometimes think about my grandfather.