People use shop vacs to clear them off the sidewalks. Even driving is a hazard as your windshield will be struck by a couple dozen per minute. Like driving through a storm of dark, squishy hailstones. And the noise is like living on an airport runway.

The good news is that it only lasts a week or two.

Do they think these are venomous biting spiders? Some kind of vicious centipedes? Whoever wrote this needs to get out in nature more! Those cicadas are so wonderful and they do so much for the health of the forests and the critters that eat the bugs. Their tunnels can be as long as six feet deep and allow air to get deep into the roots of the trees, allowing better root respiration. The calories they store provide energy for the birds and other animals that eat them, giving them a boost in nutrition.

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are totally harmless. They do some harm to young trees and to small branches on larger ones. I think
the tree trimming actually stimulates growth the next year. The biggest problem I have seen is damage from
ground moles the year before they emerge. I was born on a cicada year 1948 in these parts, so I have survived
5 invasions in my lifetime. I hope to be alive to experience them again at 85 in 2033.