As we enter cicada peak bloom, here's where they've already emerged.

[elleng]

We polled our readers and queried the Cicada Safari app to find the insects.

We received more than 3400 reports from our Facebook followers and it helped us create this map! Generally, the zone from Fairfax to College Park seems to have the most cicadas while they're spottier in our cooler areas with more shade away from development. But, with the warm temps, mass emergence should begin in places it hasn't in the coming days...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/05/20/cicada-distribution-map/?

[dweller]

1. Not in NC yet

but the map doesn’t show NC
but it’s quiet here
🤞🏼

✌🏻

[Random Boomer]

2. Just showed up in West Virginia panhandle

Saw my first two cicadas this morning.

[Random Boomer]

3. Try your local cemetery

My wife and I drove over to a small 18th century cemetery not far from our house (easy walking distance if you're in good health, which we're not). There are a few stands of old hardwood trees throughout the parcel, and it backs a wooded area, so it seemed a good place to find cicadas. The ground hasn't been disturbed for over a hundred years, so it seemed a likely spot for cicadas to have claimed long ago.

There was a faint chorus in the background, not quite loud enough to record for Cicada Safari just yet. We'll come back at night, in a day or two, for the sound. But we found what we were looking for at the base of an ancient oak tree. The ground was littered with husks, and there was also a trail of husks marching right up the trunk and out across one of the large sweeping branches. Every few inches along that conga line, a cicada had emerged, like little dancers in formation.

[Delmette2.0]

4. Oklahoma 1977

The cicadas were in full bloom. One day my Heinz 57 dog was zooming around the yard. I opened the door and he rushed in with a cicada buzzing away in his mouth. Granted he was having a blast, but I was freaking out!