JJWise
Twelve Pointer
Anyone seeing cicadas? I haven’t seen much of anything of this huge hatch around New Bern/ Morehead City. And I haven’t heard much about it from my friends in WV either. Was thinking it was supposed to take place in May-June.
Brood X
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Wanchese
Twelve Pointer
Thought NC was outside of the range of them?
jenkinsnb
Ten Pointer
I’ve not seen the first one in Randolph or Montgomery counties. I just had the first firelflies of the year last week
Last year was the year for us. At least it was in the mountains. They were everywhere for 3-4 weeks. Chickens had a feeding frenzy.
FITZH2O
Old Mossy Horns
They are think up here in Indiana.
shaggy
Old Mossy Horns
Been eerily quiet this year and really have only heard cicadas once or twice so far.
JJWise
Twelve Pointer
Interesting. I figured we on the coast had escaped but I’ve been to Raleigh and Charlotte within the last month and didnt see any there either…
Wanchese
Twelve Pointer
cncwmg
Four Pointer
Just heard cicadas in Wake County for the first time this year today. They aren't Brood X though, just the annuals. There are over 14 species of cicadas known in NC.
Wildlifer
Old Mossy Horns
I saw a bunch in Maryland last week
FITZH2O
Old Mossy Horns
I wonder what happened to broods 11 and 12?
I hear them constantly, only slightly less when I have my hearing aids in. They supposed to quit? 
Higgins
Ten Pointer
Yep me too but I don't have hearing aids. Yet.I hear them constantly, only slightly less when I have my hearing aids in. They supposed to quit?
Bluecord
Six Pointer
I know Ohio has them this year.
they are strong at my desk this morning.I hear them constantly, only slightly less when I have my hearing aids in. They supposed to quit?
shurshot
Ten Pointer
I was not far from the Maryland line heading to the Shenandoah Mnt. Parkway in northern Va last week and they were everywhere at a place we stopped for fuel. So many in fact I had to close the van door to keep them out. Walked over to some small trees and there were more on it than there were leaves. Pretty thick and they sure make some noise!
thandy
Ten Pointer
Seem like last year they were bad towards the mtns in Wilkes county but I have had them all over my yard and pool this year in Wilkes.
maelstrom
Four Pointer
I've only heard a few in Guilford, Rockingham, and Caswell counties.
darkthirty
Old Mossy Horns
Here in east TN they were unlike anything I’ve ever heard. Molts and live ones everywhere. I mowed my yard about 2 weeks ago and they were all over me and the lawnmower. Imagine mayfly hatches you’ve seen pics of but it was cicadas instead. If you got in wooded areas, you couldn’t hear yourself think. More like a high pitched roar than the usual buzz you hear when you think of summer and cicadas.
they have all but disappeared/gone silent in the last week though.
they have all but disappeared/gone silent in the last week though.
turkeyfoot
Old Mossy Horns
I know where I wanna be hunting spring 2023
QBD2
Old Mossy Horns
^They hit pretty good at my GA place from what I hear
Hunterreed
Twelve Pointer
Only see the annual ones here in southern Piedmont nc but they are still around in September. Can't hear nothing coming through the woods when you're up in the trees with them
Ol Copper
Twelve Pointer
I went to eastern TN on Saturday evening. In both Carter and Washington Co.'s it was so bad that you absolutely couldnt talk or think after about 10 minutes of it. Waterboarding cant be that bad.
Going 65 down the road with the windows up and the radio on you could still hear it.
It almost drove my wife crazier
Going 65 down the road with the windows up and the radio on you could still hear it.
It almost drove my wife crazier
Awesome, for some reason the cicadas fascinate me.
I was cruising timber in 2016 when brood V hatched in WV and saw turkeys up in the trees midday. Just an all around pretty cool event, love seeing the fish blowing up on them as well
I was cruising timber in 2016 when brood V hatched in WV and saw turkeys up in the trees midday. Just an all around pretty cool event, love seeing the fish blowing up on them as well
Extinct, can’t find much reading on it but a little on brood XI
jcannon
Twelve Pointer
I've used them for smallmouth and it's a lot of fun