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Is it getting loud yet? Official 2011 OC Cicada Thread

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earwig

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Jul 21, 2011 1:49 AM
Damn cicadas are starting to get loud around here and they're moving their way north. Gonna be seeing them empty carcass shells all over the trees pretty soon. You see or heard any of them yet?

Jul 21, 2011 1:49am
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coyotes22

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Jul 21, 2011 1:56 AM
Its the only thing that will be heard in this thread.
Jul 21, 2011 1:56am
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coyotes22

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Aug 3, 2011 4:53 AM
Called it

*crickets*
Aug 3, 2011 4:53am
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LJ

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Aug 3, 2011 6:55 AM
I've heard them a bit, but mainly seen the dogs running around with them in their mouths
Aug 3, 2011 6:55am
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power i

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Aug 3, 2011 7:13 AM
I've heard them and they always remind me of two-a-days. They are driving my dog nuts.
Aug 3, 2011 7:13am
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Aug 3, 2011 7:54 AM
I noticed the noise level to be a little higher than usual this past week when I am outside in the evening.
Aug 3, 2011 7:54am
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Curly J

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Aug 3, 2011 11:44 AM
I haven't heard any here in the Cincy area.
Aug 3, 2011 11:44am
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thavoice

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Aug 3, 2011 11:46 AM
Heard plenty of locusts in our area, but that is typically normal.

Is it that time again for the cicada? Wasnt it like very 12 years or whatever?
Aug 3, 2011 11:46am
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Scarlet_Buckeye

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Aug 3, 2011 12:23 PM
Have heard them LOUD and clear this year. I happen to like them. They always start days before/after the 4th of July.
Aug 3, 2011 12:23pm
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Aug 3, 2011 12:28 PM
thavoice;850695 wrote:Heard plenty of locusts in our area, but that is typically normal.

Is it that time again for the cicada? Wasnt it like very 12 years or whatever?

Cicadas actually are around every year, but each batch of them takes several years to crawl out of the ground. They are certainly worse in some years though.
Aug 3, 2011 12:28pm
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Aug 3, 2011 1:03 PM
...heard them yesterday and they were pretty loud.
Aug 3, 2011 1:03pm
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Aug 3, 2011 1:06 PM
Last time they were bad here was the Brood X back in 2004. Those are on a 17 year cycle and due back in 2021. I actually got to see quite a few coming out their 'shell'. (molting)
Aug 3, 2011 1:06pm
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thavoice

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Aug 3, 2011 1:09 PM
gorocks99;850735 wrote:Cicadas actually are around every year, but each batch of them takes several years to crawl out of the ground. They are certainly worse in some years though.

I see. I did a quick search. Some are def only like 13-17 years but there are others
Aug 3, 2011 1:09pm
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Aug 3, 2011 6:11 PM
Just started hearing them 4-5 days ago.
Aug 3, 2011 6:11pm
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Aug 3, 2011 6:15 PM
90 days til frost is the folk lore.
I remember a while back scraping them off the trees at my grandparents by the hundreds.
Aug 3, 2011 6:15pm
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bradmaynard

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Aug 3, 2011 6:26 PM


That is an eastern cicada killer wasp and they are all over my backyard for some reason this year. No noise from cicadas, but I think I'd rather have the noise than those death burrows all over the place.
Aug 3, 2011 6:26pm
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Aug 3, 2011 6:55 PM
bradmaynard;851022 wrote:

That is an eastern cicada killer wasp and they are all over my backyard for some reason this year. No noise from cicadas, but I think I'd rather have the noise than those death burrows all over the place.

I've had those things the past couple of summers....how is someone holding them? I've heard them as sand hornets....all over golf course ...and don't sting?
Aug 3, 2011 6:55pm
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Aug 3, 2011 7:06 PM
read they are pretty docile, though I doubt I'll be getting close enough to find out. those are dead from the looks of the right one.
Aug 3, 2011 7:06pm