Up here in Bergen no signs of any cicadas. I don't recall this brood being popular up here. There was maybe one in the early 2010's I recall.
OT: The Official 2021 Return Of The Brood X Cicada Discussion Thread
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So, you have tried them? Or are just BS'ing? I want to know if anyone here has actually eaten them.
This brood is much more restricted in geography than I would have imagined for all the hype. I have thousands on my property in northern Delaware. My parents have seen none in Monmouth county.
My friend in Maryland has tons of them. The same with friends in Cincinnati area. I recall those places having them 17 years ago. I assumed the cooler weather was the issue here but this weekend was hot and my grass was showing signs of getting dry. I figured that may trigger some. I see a lot of leaves on trees with big holes. They look like swiss cheese. Looks like we may have something else here this year.
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+1 I bet they'd be pretty good ...as far as bugs go. They look like they'd have a nice crunch followed by enough meat that you're chewy something but not so much toughness that you get the unpalatable forever-chew you'd get from, say ...a hissing cockroach.
Interesting. I live probably 6-8 miles from your daughter if she's in Stockton 4 miles from the river. Haven't seen a single cicada where I am.
BTW, beautiful area in Stockton. I sometimes enjoy just driving all the country roads there on weekends.
Thanks for the visual images you just posted. Makes me want to puke.
the chart is wrong...Brood X are in somerset county and have been..not all of the county but the southern and western sections
got lots of pics and vid to post as soon as I upload
hearing a few scattered shrills even in Pike Run Belle Mead
hearing a few scattered shrills even in Pike Run Belle Mead
I know this chart is not totally correct but makes sense to me since 2013 sounds right for what I had in Bergen. We definitely don't get the huge swarms...just a few here and there.
I'd have to be pretty damn hungry before I'd start eating insects. Hot sauce would help, though. Although it surely wouldn't be available in any context where I'd actually be eating insects.
Cicadas are everywhere in Princeton. I was walking down the street and a guy on his front porch asked me what the sound we were hearing was. I said it was a police siren. He corrected me and said "It's cicadas." I've heard them, loudly, ever since.
I have tinnitus. So cicadas are a nice change-up, a breath of fresh air, music to my ears.
Picked up my daughter from University of Delaware yesterday. Her dorm area was covered with husks, although apparently the students went on a killing spree because there are more crushed bodies than live ones on the trees and buildings.
Yikes. We never get them like that. I like the one riding piggy back in the upper left.
Not a peep up here.
But.......
We drove back up from Charlottesville yesterday: from Northern Virginia (Front Royal) all the way up through the MD/PA border (when the trees finally disappeared) we could literally hear the cicadas while doing 80 on the highway with the windows open.
But.......
We drove back up from Charlottesville yesterday: from Northern Virginia (Front Royal) all the way up through the MD/PA border (when the trees finally disappeared) we could literally hear the cicadas while doing 80 on the highway with the windows open.
Drove through that area yesterday. They might be out, but weren't particularly visible from the road.
