OK! Done with Cicadas!

Ok. Had enough! Tons of Cicadas flying every direction across the yard. Have to keep garage doors closed even. Dogs hesitant going out to pee due to high pitched noise as it’s effecting their ears. Noise can now be heard from inside house even tho windows closed and house is very sealed quiet. Noise level is highest ever now and I don’t think we have peaked as we just recieved 2.7” of rain,,ground is soft….they are coming up everywhere. Dang things last 6 weeks and will have to put up with them till as late as mid July! I think everybody needs to eat some to keep them from breeding. :Rofl

No sign of them in our area YET.

Wife’s nephew runs a lawn and landscape service and has a lot of houses to mow and take care of around Lake Lemon. He is seeing fish jump out of the muddy water feeding on cicadas and a few boats fishing that are not catching anything. He occassionally fishes Lemon but said it’s too muddy and debri everywhere this morning for him. Cicadas around Lake Lemon and Bloomington are super heavy.

Definitely sounds rough.

they have gotten really loud here last couple days since rain, can hear inside house also..can see them flying around up in trees and occasionally landing on deck.

Keep them up there.
Not here around my house yet.
Knock on wood!!


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really loud today and tons more of their shells on deck and around yard, as Cevans said I think they are just now getting going good.

We fished a little lake south of Vernon at Crosley yesterday. Lake was surrounded by trees which were full of cicadas. Fish,snakes,turtles and even bull frogs were feasting as the cicadas hit the water.
We still caught enough to entertain us for a few hours sitting under a shade tree and out of the heat.

buddy fished a local lake today using cicadas and caught/kept 63 bluegill.

We were experiencing an emergence many years ago and went fishing and saw millions of them floating on the water and nothing was eating them. Maybe they were full from gorging.

Lake Monroe shallow side swamped with em, fish just not hungry. Even seen a land turtle with his fair share in his mouth. Ready for them to check outta here !!!


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Never experienced cicadas on that large of a screen. Growing up on the coast I can remember the lovebug swarms.

This pic is under some red cedar trees but gives you a idea that my yard is areated with anywhere from 30 to 45 holes per sq. yd for the amount of cicadas and they are still coming out. Now the mess begins as early ones are dying and falling out of the trees after breeding. Expand the pic to view closely.

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That is very similar to what I saw at the wooded area we Fished Saturday.

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This pic is under some red cedar trees but gives you a idea that my yard is areated with anywhere from 30 to 45 holes per sq. yd for the amount of cicadas and they are still coming out. Now the mess begins as early ones are dying and falling out of the trees after breeding. Expand the pic to view closely.

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That is crazy. Free lawn aeration and fertilizer

Been hearing about the onslaught of the coming cicadas all year long. Never materialized. Just now I’m hearing some cicadas, but it’s already Sept. Recall how my friend kept telling how bad the cicadas were going to be this year. Now, I mention it to him from time to time with a grin on my face and a chuckle in my voice.

Just because you didn’t have them doesn’t mean they weren’t predominate in other areas of Indiana…especially in all the forested parts. We had so many, front car windows driving down our county roads were splattering them even. Your lucky you didn’t have to put up with the thousands as I still have even a few dried up ones here and there in the yard even.

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Ok. Had enough! Tons of Cicadas flying every direction across the yard. Have to keep garage doors closed even. Dogs hesitant going out to pee due to high pitched noise as it’s effecting their ears. Noise can now be heard from inside house even tho windows closed and house is very sealed quiet. Noise level is highest ever now and I don’t think we have peaked as we just recieved 2.7” of rain,,ground is soft….they are coming up everywhere. Dang things last 6 weeks and will have to put up with them till as late as mid July! I think everybody needs to eat some to keep them from breeding. :Rofl

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I saw one today fly across our back yard. I have floaters in my right eye after undergoing cataract surgery and then Lasix surgery to correct for an astigmatism. So I see things flying around in my eye all the time. Fruit flies in the house can make me think I'm seeing floaters and floaters make me think I'm seeing bugs flying around my head at times. But this was a big cicada. I was waiting to see a cicada killer wasp swoop down and kill the thing. Those wasp/hornets have stinger that are 1/4" long or more. I got stung by one a few years back while camping at Audubon State Park. I was walking from the museum back to our camp site across an open grassy field when I got stung. And then later it stung my wife on the leg. I saw the dang wasp flying around low to the ground. The females are the ones that sting and there must have been an underground nest nearby. She was just guarding her nest and doing what nature programmed her to do. But man did that sting hurt. I felt pain for two days after I got stung.

Had a few around the house lately

They never really appeared around here though the trunk of my maple tree would say otherwise.
Never heard them as I expected, a bit disapointed but sure many of you were not.

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Just because you didn’t have them doesn’t mean they weren’t predominate in other areas of Indiana…especially in all the forested parts. We had so many, front car windows driving down our county roads were splattering them even. Your lucky you didn’t have to put up with the thousands as I still have even a few dried up ones here and there in the yard even.

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Oh, I know that right! Back in the day, when I lived in Chicago,IL. I remember taking a ride to the forest preserves on the SW side to see them (cicadas) and they would fly in the car if your windows weren’t closed. Pulled over, got out of the vehicle and took it all in. Will never forget that experience. I think if I lived in the vicinity of those first preserves, my attitude would be the same as yours - big time hassle.

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Just because you didn’t have them doesn’t mean they weren’t predominate in other areas of Indiana…especially in all the forested parts. We had so many, front car windows driving down our county roads were splattering them even. Your lucky you didn’t have to put up with the thousands as I still have even a few dried up ones here and there in the yard even.

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Oh, I know that right! Back in the day, when I lived in Chicago,IL. I remember taking a ride to the forest preserves on the SW side to see them (cicadas) and they would fly in the car if your windows weren’t closed. Pulled over, got out of the vehicle and took it all in. Will never forget that experience. I think if I lived in the vicinity of those first preserves, my attitude would be the same as yours - big time hassle.

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Oh, I know that right! Back in the day, when I lived in Chicago,IL. I remember taking a ride to the forest preserves on the SW side to see them (cicadas) and they would fly in the car if your windows weren’t closed. Pulled over, got out of the vehicle and took it all in. Will never forget that experience. I think if I lived in the vicinity of those first preserves, my attitude would be the same as yours - big time hassle.

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Definitely some loud critters at night