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Have read that the periodical cicadas have emerged in the Harris Lake area. Anybody seen or heard them around there, and if so, any place in particular? Would like to check it out. Haven't experienced an emergence in quite some years. Thanks to anyone that may help.
Was at Tuckertown yesterday and they were everywhere and very vocal
You can hear them pretty much anywhere on the lake. I heard them last week. Also heard them at Lake Reese in Asheboro.
Feel free to come to the house. They are everywhere. Holes all in the group where they come out. Also the shells are everywhere. The 2 labs are eating the cicadas as soon as they come out of the shell.
Every tree in the yard has them all on it. They are everywhere. When they first came out I thought a neigbors alarm was going off. Took me a few to figure out what it was. The kids are amazed. They have never seen them before.
Darin
they are all over lexington, trying they're best to drive me crazy
Last week on Jordan you could hear the buzz all around. You could also see dead ones around the parking lot.
Looking at a predicted emergence map, they look like they should be very widespread. Nice to know (I guess!) that they are around Jordan also. Many thanks to everyone.
On Badin today thet were everywhere. And very loud!
Uh...no you dont.:( Them things have about drove us crazy the past few weeks and theyre still going strong.:mad: My yard looks like a sponge.:(:oQuote:
Originally Posted by SlowToFret
I wonder if you tightlined a cicada if crappie would bite them? I would have bait for a lifetime if I froze some.
Darin
I saw them on Smith Mountain Lake in Va once and everything from catfish to musky were feeding on them on top water, food was served
I was bank fishing jordan this week and was walking through the woods back to the truck, when the ground started to sound like there leaves crunching/scratching all around me. I looked closely to the the ground and cicadas were were everywhere. I think they were just coming out of the ground in that area as I was walking by. I have seen the flying adult stage and their shed shucks but not the "hatch" itself. Very cool. Reminds me I need to take the big poppin bugs down to the lake tomorrow.
FishinOnCredit
we used one that had just come out of the ground as bait last weekend and caught a catfish on the Haw river.
Thanks again to everyone that responded. I have learned of a location near Jordan Lake that is in the midst of the cicada emergence. A couple of my coworkers and I are heading out there after lunch to check it out. We are all entomologists for the company we work for, so that's why all my interest. Not for the company, but just for our personal insect-interest. Might as well have a strange job I guess. Thanks again!
stopped at harris today while working and could hear them before I got out of the truck. they were VERY LOUD
they are a fish catching bug !
Fish only get to eat them every 13 years so they better fill up on them now. Gonna be a while before they get another taste.
i didnt know that
went to Falls lake yesterday they were everywhere... Live in Mebane and its a constant hummmmmmmmmm...... Oh by the way caught a few crappie while at Falls....
Was camping at jordan lake last week at popular point and they were everywhere. been along time since ive seen and heard that, grew up in arkansas and we call them locust.
Again, thanks everyone for your input. Made a couple of trips first near Jordan and then around Seaforth and Ebenezer and their calls were filling the air. Took some nice pics and will try to attach a couple. And yes, in many places they are called locusts, which I did growing up in Kentucky. Locusts are actually a type of grasshopper which emerge and feed in swarms. I think the bulk emergence of cicadas made people years ago think of the Biblically swarming nature of locusts and coined the name. Kind of fits, except adult cicadas don't eat (thank goodness!).
Adult periodical cicdada, 13 year
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