Cicadas are outta control

They have come and gone here in east central Georgia. A couple weeks ago they were so loud you could hear them inside watching TV but now not a peep

We have three different species with three different calls at my place in north AL. They were still singing loud right up until the rain showed up about 15 minutes ago.

I had them last year haven’t seen one yet.


But did get June bug swarms and a termite swarm.

Ahh yeah last year I had just the green ones. Drove my dogs crazy.

That is correct

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hh yeah last year I had just the green ones. Drove my dogs crazy.

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The green ones are the annual cicadas. You'll see them to some extent every year, usually during the Summer months.

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Locusts aren’t cicadas.

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No one I know calls them Cicadas. Chew on that Professor

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Locusts are neat as hell, especially those red eyes

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Locusts are grasshoppers, but not all grasshoppers are locusts. Cicadas are cicadas. You have periodical and annual cicadas. All of the periodical cicadas in the US come "roughly" every 13 or 17 years, and they all have red eyes. The annual cicadas won't have red eyes, are more green in color, and they emerge every year.

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I don’t even think we have locusts in the us.

They are more of a giant grasshopper.

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Every grasshopper can be a locust. They don't become locusts, or aren't considered locusts, until they form large groups, or swarms, and descend on crops.