I wasn't seeing or hearing any of them for so long, weeks after they'd emerged in other parts of the country, that I was actually concerned about them!

Now, not at all!

Supposedly this is due to the males not knowing that the planes are not competing males so they crank up the volume.

They seem determined to be noisier than a jet airliner around here, though.

Not remotely so loud right now, though, since it's nighttime. I can still hear a small number of them in the distance if I walk outside, but most of them are quiet at night.

And the cicadas are LOUD in some wooded areas. They seem to like oak trees.

I don't remember cicadas though, only the killer Gypsy Moths in the 70s.

Seems like it just started a couple days ago.

we may not get them - unless you shoo them up my way.

They are about as expected in northern VA, Loud, annoying and seemingly everywhere, including in my shirt.

I know they don't bite but just the thought of them crawling in my clothes...YUK!

But after a couple buttons unbuttoned, I was able to get it to fly away.

Here in NC

I remember them years ago sounding like waves of spaceships landing …

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with sound and it sounded just like something from a 50s Sci-fi movie. Creepy.

I am very glad that we don't have those creepy periodic cicadas that are infesting the east. Eww.

and now they’ve taken to dive bombing– usually right at your face. That seems to be a new development in the last day or two. They had been pretty docile, just hanging out in the trees and shrubs, or slowly crawling around on the side of the house or on the deck, now they are flying around everywhere. My windshield was a total mess today. Loaded up on a couple jugs of windshield washer fluid on the way home from work tonight.

They haven't reached that stage here yet, when they're suddenly flying awkwardly everywhere.

and we got pelted! I don’t really mind them because I know they are harmless, but it’s disconcerting to have something that large flying rapidly at your face. Everyone was flicking and plucking cicadas off of other people.

What is strange is they are silent tonight. I can actually hear the frogs for the first time in a couple weeks.

The past few nights, the cicadas have been loud and several have been hanging out on my kitchen window, where light is always on. Tonight, the usual moths and assorted insects are on the window but not one single cicada.

I think they might be planning something big.

judging from the videos I was able to find. I didn't even think of driving through/into them. Eww.

Same if it was done a long time ago like here in SC York, PA. We have trees now, but they were planted when our houses were built. Before then it was farmland. No trees.

!7 years ago here, we had almost no brood X cicadas.

This year we had a few. Enough that I could hear them earlier today. I was happy to hear them.

Hopefully they won't get up into our area this cycle. Disgusting little buggers.

https://abc7chicago.com/mormon-crickets-billions-of-cricket-invasion-insect/10751987/

Crickets freak me out, man.

Feral cat at my daughter's house is hunting and eating them.

doubted it...until your post. I can understand opossums and birds eating them but not cats and dogs. My dogs used to try to catch flies but they never ate them, just killed them.

No Cicadas here, but there is a dog next door that won't shut up.

Actually, almost no bugs of any kind. That's one of the wonderful and amazing things I love about living here. No bugs. It does not get better than this. Lucky me.

The “fall line” is basically Fredericksburg about an hour north of us.

on the north side of Columbus, but if you drive ten minutes north or west they’re everywhere. I’m not complaining.

On the coast.