17 year Cicadas

Hello everyone, i was in Chicago for the Memorial day weekend.
Now im from California so forgive me if these bugs are boreing to you, but ive never seen them.
They come around every 17 years or so to basically shed their shells, mate, and die.

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wow! there's so many of them!

Here is a shot of the base of the tree where the cicadas were.

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OMG, hundreds of them, we get caterpillars in the hundreds like that and I have seen them just about strip a tree bare!

Wow, cool pictures.

Word of warning to any pet owners reading, keep them away from these! They can be deadly.

frailwit wrote in post #3291214
Wow, cool pictures.

Word of warning to any pet owners reading, keep them away from these! They can be deadly.

I can't imaging how loud it is with that many of them.

Can you offer more explaination? I'm curious about with the pet thing.

Thanks

frailwit wrote in post #3291214
Wow, cool pictures.

Word of warning to any pet owners reading, keep them away from these! They can be deadly.

really? because one of their primary purposes are to provide food for forest dwellers, and for nutrients in the soil upon their rapid death.

I thought they came every 7 years? Nonetheless thats a lot of them!

i dont know, ive never seen them before. thats just what everyone told me.

http://news.nationalge​ographic.com …/0329_040329_ci​cadas.html

We had them here in the MD/DC area 3 years ago... in swarms... everywhere for 6 weeks. Their "song" pulsates and has an eerie alien sound that grows on you over the weeks. Miss the sound... do not miss having to dodge them just to walk out to get the post, though. LoL You could be driving down I95 and watch them move in cloud swarms, from tree to tree.