ironfacebuster , vor einem Monat

@TechConnectify simultaneously jealous you have cicadas and glad I don't have cicadas (yet?)

I've been waiting MONTHS because of all the hype and the only one I've seen was a preemergence cicada I accidentally dug up in a trench!

beuhlig , vor einem Monat

@TechConnectify surprisingly, I haven’t really noticed them in Iroquois County, Illinois yet

garymcm , vor einem Monat

@TechConnectify "And the locusts sang and they were singing for me" B.Dylan, The Day of the Locusts.

msquebanh , vor einem Monat

@TechConnectify Sound On Amazing!

amiles , vor einem Monat

@TechConnectify they’ve pretty much gone away from Tennessee now but we’ve had them for the past two months unfortunately

Arcaik , vor einem Monat

@TechConnectify TIL about periodical cicadas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical_cicadas

geerlingguy , vor einem Monat

@TechConnectify WHAT I COULDNT HEAR YOU!

joop , vor einem Monat

@TechConnectify geeeeeeze that noise. Do they calm down at night?

gikiski , vor einem Monat

@joop yes

TechConnectify OP , vor einem Monat

@gikiski @joop Not only at night but also in the rain or, I think, cloudy days. They only got loud today once the sun came out.

mellowfish , vor einem Monat

@TechConnectify have fun! We are finally getting rid of them in Nashville.

TechConnectify OP , vor einem Monat

Other photos:

The emergence around me seems much less coordinated than 2007 (granted I don't live where I did then, though I'm not too far away). I think this was because we never got a deep soaking rain until yesterday. They've been emerging in pockets across the area as little rain storms popped across but after yesterday's soaking a whole bunch more have come out (some are still molting!)

A close-up of a molting cicada. They emerge from the ground as brown wingless insects, then their exoskeleton splits open just behind their head. This one has just split and a pale white entity appears to be crawling out from the brown shell.
A wider shot of the tree trunk showing a fully emerged cicada with a black abdomen and wings, just below is a cicada which has just escaped its nymph form. Its brown shell clings to the tree while its white body with shriveled up wings has mostly popped out of it, upside-down and still attached at the rear.
A different close-up of the tree trunk showing an emerged cicada with its body still pale white but the wings fully formed. Just below it is a deformed cicada which appears to have had its wings fail to expand (or possibly this one is injured. They are famously defenseless and rather... foolish insects)

ozone89 , vor einem Monat

@TechConnectify wahoo! Tun tudu dun tudu du du dunn

I caught an evening cicada! This time it's WETTER than an odding cicada.

kimmohalonen , vor einem Monat

@TechConnectify

the_other_jon , vor einem Monat

@TechConnectify Nature’s white noise generator.

brad , vor einem Monat

@TechConnectify If you haven't seen it, this is the truly unhinged mechanism via which cicadas make all that noise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWc48iVC8u8

TechConnectify OP , vor einem Monat

@brad indeed I saw it, and it's part of why I went for a walk just now! I can hear them clearly at home now so figured I'd go out and grab some pictures