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Oculus Spirit [82043]
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How bad are the cicadas in SC?
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May 2, 2024, 3:05 PM
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They're blowing up NC right now. Constant loud whirring sound outside.
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Oculus Spirit [76661]
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None in greer
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May 2, 2024, 3:07 PM
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When I grew up in NC though they hatched every year and were super loud. Almost like a white noise I came to enjoy to sleep.
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Lot o points [156366]
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Every year??***
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May 2, 2024, 3:12 PM
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Lot o points [181542]
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I have some type every year.***
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May 2, 2024, 3:12 PM
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Different broods come out pretty much every year wherever cicadas are.
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May 2, 2024, 3:14 PM
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Some of them get more hype and cool nicknames, like Brood X, because reasons.
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Lot o points [156366]
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Never had them in Greenville, and here in
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May 2, 2024, 3:38 PM
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TN it’s the 13 year brood or the 17 year. There’s no every year occurrence.
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Lot o points [181542]
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Annual Cicadas. Every dang Summer.
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May 2, 2024, 3:42 PM
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Annual cicada species are those that arrive every year (annually). In the U.S.A., each continental state has at least 4 species of cicadas. California has over 80.
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Lot o points [181542]
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We have cluster flies alas***
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May 2, 2024, 3:54 PM
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Oculus Spirit [76661]
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And this time of year is bad.***
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May 2, 2024, 4:21 PM
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Oddly enough, we (Greenville) seem to get an annual brood
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May 2, 2024, 4:55 PM
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or at least it seems like that's been the case over the last 15 yrs or so.
I've seen a few visual signs (little white larvae looking things) this year but have yet to hear them, like at all.
The nasty looking bee things called Cicada killers do seem to be out in full force, so maybe they are just waiting for cinco de mayo, for CBB to be fired, CDS to pick up a starter from the transfer portal, or another walk on to be awarded a scholly...who knows.
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Lot o points [181542]
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No killers here yet. I blasted all their holes last summer..
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May 2, 2024, 4:57 PM
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with something that will probably cancer me. We'll see what happens next.
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I will blast a hole.***
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May 3, 2024, 7:33 AM
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CU Medallion [58700]
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We've had them every year where I've lived in Greenville. Almost
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May 2, 2024, 4:30 PM
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deafening some years.
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Lot o points [181542]
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I battle cicada killer wasps around the house every Summer.
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May 2, 2024, 4:36 PM
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sux they love my dirt.
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Lot o points [156366]
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Maybe its a new thing but I grew up
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May 2, 2024, 5:58 PM
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Living there 25 years and am back all the time and have never heard them.
First time that really stuck out was 2004 when I went to Cincinnati and their 17 year brood was out. Air was full of them and the sound was like a nuclear plant siren going off constantly. Never experienced anything like that in the south in my life.
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You have heard cicadas in the trees in the Summer.
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May 2, 2024, 6:01 PM
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Trust me on this one. Every Summer. Are you hearing this brood now? Maybe so, maybe not. But you will always hear the annual ones every Summer, if you have trees around.
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I certainly believe you, but my experience over 64 years in different areas
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May 2, 2024, 6:46 PM
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of Greenville has been very different. I've lived here in BW for 17 years and we have had them every year so far here. I lived a few streets over, outside of BW for 16 years before that, and had them every year there. I grew up near Furman, and we always had them there. Many years, especially recently, my wife and I have marveled at how loud they are.
I'm no bug expert, so I have no idear why some always have them and some rarely do. I honestly assumed everybody did.
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Lot o points [156366]
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I think Im being too specific.
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May 2, 2024, 8:19 PM
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Sure I’ve heard them at night sounding a lot like high pitched tree frogs—basically just a sound of nature, and maybe you’d see the occasional molted exoskeleton and even more rarely see a live one.
I’m talking about when the broods come out in massive numbers though. The air during the day is thick with them. If you walked from your house to your mailbox, 100+ Of them would fly into you, there are just so many in the air. You can’t walk on the sidewalk or street without them crunching under your feet because so many are on the ground dying. The constant drone, during the day, isn’t like the pleasant calls on a SC summer night, rather it truly sounds like a tornado or nuclear plant siren going non-stop, all day.
I am saying I have never experienced that in my decades in the Carolinas. We just didn’t have these monster broods this far south.
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Smoke a bowl bro.***
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May 2, 2024, 8:26 PM
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Agreed. There was one year, over 20 years ago, when I was in my next door
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May 2, 2024, 9:46 PM
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neighbor's front yard, and a "brood" of what must have been 1,000+ poured out of the ground near the base of a huge water oak. But like you, other than that, I've never seen the mid-day sky turn black with them.
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You lived in Cincy?
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May 3, 2024, 7:25 AM
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Don’t believe I knew that.
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Oculus Spirit [82043]
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Apparently it's a double brood hatching this year and they're out
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May 2, 2024, 3:59 PM
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in force right now. Didn't realize SC was cut off from this hellscape scound.
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Lot o points [181542]
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Yes this is way more than normal in places they hatched.***
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May 2, 2024, 5:05 PM
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Nothing in Six Mile hills***
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May 2, 2024, 3:11 PM
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How about in the Seven Mile Valley?
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May 2, 2024, 4:25 PM
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wait, wut?
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Oculus Spirit [86358]
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I can hear them in Belton, but they were much louder
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May 2, 2024, 3:12 PM
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around Calhoun Falls.
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Have them year round at my house.
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May 2, 2024, 3:12 PM
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Indoors, even.
If you have the means, I highly recommend tinnitus.
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They are horrendous.
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May 2, 2024, 3:12 PM
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They're armed with sticks and trash can lids and are making crazy demands like epi-pens, gloves for their tiny hands, and gluten-free vegan meals.
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Oculus Spirit [76661]
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Re: They are horrendous.
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Re: How bad are the cicadas in SC?
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May 2, 2024, 3:13 PM
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Nothing where I am in the QC, but my buddy in Pineville said they're really loud at his place.
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Oculus Spirit [81555]
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I hear them all the time, 24x7.
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May 2, 2024, 3:22 PM
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They seem to get worse with when I have a hangover, drink caffeine, or eat chocolate.
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Louder than chickens....
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May 2, 2024, 3:46 PM
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Hear in the Midlands. In the country deafening.
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110%er [5813]
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Haven't heard a single thing in Powdersville/Mauldin/Anderson, the 3 areas
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May 2, 2024, 3:46 PM
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I frequent the most.
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I don't think they'll be in this part of VA this year.
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May 2, 2024, 4:20 PM
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had them a few times through the years, not fun.
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Haven't herd squat over here near Weed Hampton. Yet.
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May 2, 2024, 4:28 PM
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Theyre not bad at all
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May 2, 2024, 6:09 PM
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Just a little crunchy and better with the wings pulled off.
Hear them every year in Greenvegas. Last year had quite a few.
Somehow this 13 yr cycle group coupled with the 17 year cycle is supposed to be super loud, but some definitely emerge in Greenville annually.
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Oculus Spirit [94306]
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The ringing in my ears makes the chickadees blush.
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May 3, 2024, 7:22 AM
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WC Fields quote.
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