The Cicadas are coming, the Cicadas are coming.

[NotHardUp1]

I’ve never seen a salmon in Indiana

Talk about a weird factoid.

https://www.in.gov/dnr/fish-and-wildlife/files/fw-Spring_Coho_Shore_Fishing_101.pdf

 

[NotHardUp1]

They molt their shell and that can add up to a mess.

I read one website that spoke to the mass of dying cicadas, and how you should rake them up and dispose of them in compost piles, or bury them. Apparently, like many insects, they stink when rotting and you have lots of them.

If they hit the driveway, I intend to sweep them rather than drive over them.

And I don't intend to use the bagger when mowing if there are many in the grass.

 

[Kahaih]

More @ stain

I was also thinking of the squashed bodies.

How well do they clean off a vehicle? Is normal windscreen washer fluid enough? I don't suppose the commute home would be a good time to open the sunroof. LOL

 

[Kahaih]

I read one website that spoke to the mass of dying cicadas, and how you should rake them up and dispose of them in compost piles, or bury them. Apparently, like many insects, they stink when rotting and you have lots of them.

If they hit the driveway, I intend to sweep them rather than drive over them.

And I don't intend to use the bagger when mowing if there are many in the grass.

Will you need to cover your pool? Air conditioning units?

 

[NotHardUp1]

It's unlikely your property will be carpeted. They float, so pools have skimmers.
Other insects swarm too, like termites, carpenter ants, mayflies, etc. I've never seen any issue with the skimmer.

We'll see.

If you don't have a track cover on the pool, the floating bubble-pack kind are cheap. It's only for four or five weeks that they live, and they don't all die on the same day or anything.

As for the AC unit, the months that see cicadas are hot, so the unit is running and blowing them away. They have no reason to seek the inside when it's off.

 

[NotHardUp1]

More @ stain

I was also thinking of the squashed bodies.

How well do they clean off a vehicle? Is normal windscreen washer fluid enough? I don't suppose the commute home would be a good time to open the sunroof. LOL

Stain wouldn't be the issue, but the slick and the stink, on sidewalks or drives.

As for windshields, they aren't so much like locusts where they could cover the windshield. That would be kind of rare. And they typically wouldn't be as prevalent over open highways since they prefer trees for food, breeding and laying eggs. Not likely a big problem for clean windshields.

The're also bulky and hard-bodies, so more likely to bounce off cars than splat at less-than-highway speeds.

 

[Alistair]

I remember a particular heavy invasion back in the late 70s. We took a trip to Pennsylvania to visit family. I only recall that they were in the trees, really loud, and the shells were small drifts around the base of the trees. I don’t remember stepping on them or covering walls and yards.

 

[NotHardUp1]

^ They're really kind of like volcanic eruptions.

They're here all along, beneath us, and here long before us. Then they erupt and we're awed. Then, everything calms down, cools, and we more or less forget about them.

Eruption would be a good description for the appearance of cicadas, plus they really don't travel far.

 

[Kahaih]

Kinda, sort of like these? Only far less frequent but a much, much bigger party when it happens:

Loud cockchafers invade UK homes and hit people in face

The annual invasion of cockchafers is once again upon us, as the inch long insects enter their adult stage and suddenly become everywhere

www.nottinghampost.com

Known also as June bugs.

 

[72-Jay]

There's Cicadas here, but they are a different type.
I've only ever seen one a couple times (weird looking things!), but sometimes do hear them in summer.
As a kid I always wanted to catch a couple & keep them as pets like I did with crickets, because I like the sound they make. lol (never was able to though)

 

[cityboy-stl]

 

[NotHardUp1]

Kinda, sort of like these? Only far less frequent but a much, much bigger party when it happens:

Known also as June bugs.

There's a reason why sci-fi authors model many of their monsters after insects. This is truly the arthropods' planet. Dinosaurs, mammals and the rest come and go, but the arthropds remain.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I heard my first cicadas singing in the trees today as I returned home from work and went to collect my mail.

It was only one or two, but way up in the tree tops, where they fly. It was a welcome sound at this point. If it becomes thousands, maybe less so.

 

[belamyi]

 

[NotHardUp1]

So, how many of you have noticed the ends of branches browning and falling off in the wind or rain? There are several trees at work covered with them, and a few on the way to work.

It is unmistakably cicada damage from the female laying her eggs in green twigs.