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I wonder if the fungus that kills cicadas might impact the rats and other animals that eat them.

there were a few that landed on me and several on the sidewalks downtown but no biblical swarms

(60 miles south of DC.)

Hearing two of them solo.

There were a couple hanging out on the window screen last night freaking me out. They each had distinctive calls and they were very alien sounding. I can’t even begin to try to describe the sounds. It took a couple minutes to figure out what was making the sounds, by which time I was convinced abduction was imminent.

They are pretty thick and loud out here in Clarke County, especially along the river.
My parents are just over the mountain in Loudoun, and Mom told me they were so loud while she was doing yardwork on Saturday they were drowning out the music on her headphones.😳

... they're very loud in my part of SW Ohio now.

I haven't regularly drove into them and over them on roads like I did 17 years ago yet, but that will probably happen in a few more weeks.

Funny story from this morning:

I heated coffee in my microwave and then mixed in some creamer. I normally put some creamer in the cup first and mix it by later pouring the coffee into it, but forgot this time. I didn't even turn on the kitchen lights when I did it, relying on the light from an adjacent room to see in there.

So I eventually drank most of the coffee, then rapidly took the last swig from the cup. In that last swig was some semi-hard object, and I assumed it was a cicada! That made little sense, really, but they've been on my mind lately given their loud shrieking. I quickly spit it out back into the cup!

Then I poured it into the kitchen sink, seeing that it was a piece of macaroni! How did that get in there?!

I figured it out about a minute later, remembering that I used a "clean" fork left on my stovetop to mix in the creamer. It was the same fork that I had used to mix some macaroni that I was boiling on my stovetop the previous day!