The 17 year (Brood V) cicadas are here in eastern Ohio, just saw the first sign of their

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discarded shells Friday. Saturday I saw some of the bugs with stubby little wings. Today I saw the first ones with fully developed wings.
So far we haven't had any of their monotonous singing. It is supposed to warm and sunny tomorrow I am expecting to wake up to the
noise machine in the morning. I was born in 1948 a cicada year and saw them in 1965, 1982 and 1999, this will be the 5th and maybe the last time. I actually like them, I find their life cycle fascinating and don't really mind the noise.

[Tobin S.]

1. I used to live in Ohio and remember the last time they were around.

It was the summer that I was afraid to go outside.

[Paulie]

2. Hello from Brood XIII land

Got another decade or so till ours return. Enjoy!

[Recursion]

3. I'm a Brood X man, myself

Should be five more years I think

[a la izquierda]

4. They're out en force in WV.

No singing though.

[femmocrat]

5. I've seen their shells, but no singing yet.

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Western PA.

Update: I saw a big live one in some flowers today. Not chirping yet though.

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6. First saw their discarded shells last Friday May 20th here it is

Tuesday May 24th and no love song yet. What a life suck on roots 17 years come out of the ground for six weeks mate and die.
If we elect Trump there may not be anything left on the surface after the next 17 years.

[ArnoldLayne]

9. Hi I know what you mean. I'm in Wheeling WV.

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12. Hey I am in Ohio 8 miles away I know two other people in WV that are still Democrats

you are number three. Was fishing at Barkcamp State Park today the cicadas were making lots of noise around the beach area.
Thousands around my house not a sound yet.

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7. Went fishing today I heard them for the first time this year on one hillside

maybe they will be in full noise mode tomorrow. This is the one time carp will hit an artificial lure, I had a ball last time
catching carp on a lure that kind of looked like a cicada, hope to do it again this time.

[astral]

8. I was 'in' them once

and I didnt know about them, I kept walking around this field, wondering why I was hearing this electrical-like buzz in the air coming from seemingly all directions. Yeah, I saw the bugs, but I would look up close and personal and decide, naw, that noise can't be coming from those bugs. . . or can it?

When I heard of cicadas later it dawned on me that I had seen and heard them before... That was also the first year I heard the Grateful Dead, on the Terrapin Station record which was at the public library for checkout. I had heard OF them my whole life it seemed, but had never HEARD them. And there was the line from the song 'crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune...'

I suppose some things are supposed to be just once in a lifetime.

[ArnoldLayne]

11. I remember as a little kid in 1965 rumor had it they would

lay their eggs under your skin which was not true. Anyone remember that old Myth.