They are coming up out of the ground in May. I have never seen or heard them. I understand they can make a lot of noise. Beings as they've got wings, must be they can fly. Will we get peppered with these when driving? You ever experience cicadas? Creepy crawlers man.

They're big man! Giant-sized flying biblical gross insects! Save yourself if you can!

I remember being a kid and tying G.I. Joe figures or green army men to some of the bigger ones. Some of the big boys could drag a Joe.

Good times.

Nostalgic. Used to love hearing them. Very peaceful sound. Still hear them when I go to Japan.

Obviously, you are not from the South. Summer wouldn't be the same without the cicadas.

They taste like chicken...

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They taste like chicken...

There is a Channel 5 Cincinnati news video of some chick baking them and dribbling white chocolate over them. She takes a bite so they must be good..

We love listening to them. Of course we also love to listen to coyotes howl. Funny how some people are so freaked out over cicadas. They even freak out over the shells they leave behind on the trees when they molt.

They like weedeaters and mowers. I was doing that work when there was a massive swarm. Just had to squish them under your clothes and keep going. Saw a guy go nuts from them. Swung a commercial weed eater at them and laid his leg open candy cane striped.

I hear them all the time my tinnitus is so bad.

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Obviously, you are not from the South. Summer wouldn't be the same without the cicadas.

These are said to be coming up after 17 years below the ground. Perhaps its eggs hatching. I understand they come out almost to the exact day.

Hey I like the sound of peepers so maybe these wont be so bad after all.

When I was a kid, we used to shoot them out of trees with our B B guns.

Listen to the song of our southern insects!!!!

I could fall asleep to them

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They taste like chicken...

Don't give Tyson Foods any bright ideas.

Strange creature and a short life cycle.

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Obviously, you are not from the South. Summer wouldn't be the same without the cicadas.

I didn't realize that they were local to any specific regions. I assumed they were all over the country, maybe minus the desert?

Don't forget their empty shells left on the bark of trees.

I lived in Bethesda, MD the last time they appeared en-masse... which I believe was 2006. They were everywhere and I'm not talking "Oh I'm from the South and used to them". Hell, that's a given pretty much anywhere in the wooded areas of the US each summer. No, the cicada cycle is such that when the majority come out in the mid-Atlantic every 16 years or so, it's a fucking swarm. You can't walk a block without stepping on 50-60 of the critters.

They don't bite but are a nuisance. Driving wise I don't recall them being much of a problem but you will get a few road kills on the windows over the course of several days whenever you go somewhere. Their size and crunchy exoskeletons usually result in them bouncing off, more than making a splat. On really bad days, they could act like wet leaves and cause cars to skid a tiny bit when braking... where they're really dense that is.

It's the eyes....