Check out this link: Cicada Invasion

Will you be experiencing Cicadas this year with the major outbreak just weeks away? Here in Southeastern Michigan the infestation will begin around the last week in May. They also say that in our area, you can expect up to 1,000,000 cicadas PER acre! YUCK is all I have to say... :rolleyes:

I guess nobody is interested in these creatures. Thats a shame... :unsure:

I actually never thought much about them. I know a good sign of summer is when you can hear these creatures making their "noise." We have had a few warm days here, in Southern New England, and I believe I did here them in the woods. I will read the article further, it seems interesting.

YAY someone else who is interested in these creatures! :P

Yeah they are supposed to come out here in a matter of a week or so... who know? :D

The invasion has begun here this morning! I live in Central Maryland. The first batch came out under a few of our trees that get a little more sun than the others. A few hundred were on the grass around the base of those trees. They kept saying to look at the trunks but that's not where they were. When I told my mother, she came over and said, "Oh, they're so cute! Hi babies!" Not the typical female response! They don't bother me but on some level, that many of them gives me the willies. A squirrel came over and ate a dozen or so, great fun for him. They had flown off into the tree tops by lunch. Many more should come out when the more shady areas of our land warm up in a a few days. I might give some to the lizard. The chickens and raccoons (who dug pits under our oldest tree and left cicada-shell excrement in my pond) have already eaten some larval cicadas from the ground (I gave one to my lizard too). When digging around the last month, I've been unearthing a lot of them, 1-6 per square foot. This morning, in the distance, was a noise like an alien ship coming to get us. It was cicadas in a patch of warmer woods a ways away. So, I saw my first adult cicadas this year this morning. I don't know how thick they will get or how many will end up in the pond for example. I think my koi and orfe are large enough that they'd try to eat them if they did.

Oh yeah, fish love em! My own fish would eat them, because they have in the past. :lol:

We get a few each year, but as you know, nothing like the year 2004. I am curious to see when they come out here in Michigan but as its usually just a little cooler here than in Maryland, it could be a week or two. Tell me, did you have to step on them and crunch them as you walking in your yard? It seems like with that many it would be impossible to avoid them! :ph43r:

We haven't had any outbreak here, at least not yet. But right now the weather and temperature is so inconsistant. Today it was almost 90º, but tomorrow is supposed to be cooler. But that's New England weather.

I haven't stepped on one yet as they've only come out in a few places and only a few in the mowed areas. I'm sure I will step on one in the next few months though! I fed one white one to my lizard and one black one to my chicken. They moult and come out white and turn black over an hour or so. While white, they are soft and can't fly. The one I gave to my hen on the perch flew down and the rooster grabbed it. He clucked and dropped it a few times but held it for the hen to come down and get it. We don't have that many yet and may not get as many as our woods are mostly 27 years old so were only 10 years old 17 years ago. We do have one older tree though where the raccoon dug pits but none have come up there yet.

I heard that Long island, NY (where I live) Should get this outbreak in 2008. I cant wait!