The cicadas are coming: What to expect from the double brood emergence of trillions....

I wonder if skies will be darkened by the swarms. What will be the economic impact on agriculture? Are you in the path of the cicadas:

 

In my area we are expected mostly to have the normal amount of annual cicadas with the possibility of some periodical cicadas mixed in.

 

I lived in IN during one of these. It wasnt quite 'clouds' but you could hardly walk anywhere without stepping on one or having one fly into you, and the noise was near deafenning. It was neat to see, but its also a good thing it doesnt happen often. That would get old fast.

I dont think they actually eat anything, I wouldnt think there would be an economic impact (tho it might boost tourism a bit, breifly). IIRC, this is their mating cycle. They finished eating when they molted their 'grub skin' and grew wings.

 

Interesting thread. I hadn’t heard of the double crop. What strange little critters they are. I’m in Nebraska it will be interesting to see how many we get.

 

If you live in areas where copperhead snakes are present, pay extra attention because the baby copperheads love cicadas.

 

Good to know:

 

We are supposed to get a double whammy. Possibly trillions. Alabama

 

A cicada chaser:

 

We have them here in Florida as a regular part of the landscape. On a hot summer day their high pitched buzzing can regularly be heard from the canopy of the oak trees.

If you didn't know what they were it would perplex you till eternity.

 

I'm reminded, back in the 80s, some dude in South America brought some killer bees from africa to south america, and they got loose, and started to spread, and these bees will attack you can could kill you, they were so vicious, and they were headed north, and it was going to be horror in the US when they arrived. well, what happened was they bred with other, more tame, bees, and there viciousness, by the time they arrived to America, was greatly tamed by then, and no bee-pocalypse ever happened.

 

Would you go on a cicada safari:

 

Be nice to them! Imagine being stuck underground for 17 years only to wake up, have some sex, fly around for a bit and die.
Poor things!

 

There you go:

 

We ain't got none here yet.

 

A good time to be a bird.

 

Is it really not that big of a deal:

 

Are you inundated by the cicadas:

 

Cicada Hysteria

 

Cicada mostly feed on the sap of trees like oak and willow, so agriculturally, they would have much less impact than something like a swarm of locusts.

 

You're probably glad the disease can't be transmitted to humans: