Cicada Invasion - Brood X
- by Judi on Nov 4, 2005
Cicadas of 2004
I vaguely remember the cicadas 17 years ago. This time I don’t think I’ll forget them. We live on about an acre. Not in the country, but our yard is surrounded and secluded by tall Honey Suckle. When we first started reading about Brood X this spring, we wondered if we’d get many of them. After reading about them, we started seeing their “chimney’s” every where. Tons of them. And what we couldn’t see in our grass, we could periodically feel them crunch under our shoes (or bare feet) as we walked through the yard.
We new they’d be coming out soon. Mid-May seems to be the time they start. Today is May 20th. As Tege and I made our bare foot way through the garage and out to the back yard, we slowly started becoming more aware of a cicada here and there. We’ve seen them flying around, or sitting, over the past week.. but we really hadn’t paid much attention to them. There was no way to not pay attention to them this morning. We had to come in and put on some shoes. With camera in hand, we made our way back to the yard to see what of interest we could find.
Unfortunately, I never did make it out to get pictures of their chimney’s when we had so many that were visible (I was in the last weeks of pregnancy and the first few weeks of our baby moon). But, we got a few fun pictures this morning.
We just found all the buggies… grabbed our shoes and the camera.. LOOK at all the bugs! They are everywhere!
Just hatching out.
Newly Hatched - I didn’t know they’d be white when they hatched. I also saw a couple that had not gone through their change yet, but didn’t get a good picture of them.
Looks a little painful to me.. poor guy, lost a couple legs.
Couldn’t believe how many were all over the playhouse… Should have expected it. There had been TONS of chimneys inside the playhouse.
Seeing this stopped me in my tracks. I was so surprised to see what used to be a Lily end up being a “cicada plant”.
Getting up-close
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2 Responses for "Cicada Invasion - Brood X"
Wow! The Cicada’s in the lily, that’s intense!!!! Iforgot about Brood X. I don’t think iwe had that amount of coverage in our area. The intensity of concentration jumped around a bit.
The creamy yellow coloring of the nymph is so cool looking. When the girls told me about our cicadia, I was so surprised to see the coloring. I didn’t expected that. Made the photo all that much better. scary and prehistoric freaky things!
Wow! The Cicada’s in the lily, that’s intense!!!! I forgot about The Brood X.
I don’t think we had that amount of coverage in our area. The intensity of concentration jumped around a bit.
The creamy yellow coloring of the nymph is so cool looking. When the girls told me about our cicadia, I was so surprised to see the coloring!! I didn’t expected that. Made the photo all that much better.
scary and prehistoric freaky things!
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