Chicaogo area -- Cicadas are here!

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Still waiting. Surprised Al Gore hasn’t announced that Global Warming is responsible for the bad predictions on emergence yet. 😃
 
manualman said:
Still waiting. Surprised Al Gore hasn’t announced that Global Warming is responsible for the bad predictions on emergence yet. 😃
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It will be quite strange if they do not emerge as usual. Sort of like the disappearing bees…

If they are not here by June 1st, then it is probably unlikely they will emerge, which will make us wonder what happened to them, just lurking under the soil…
 
How long do they stay around for? Do they have a short life span?
 
Still no cicadas in my area. Very strange because in 1990 the area was full of them.
 
I remember when they were all over the place in northern Tennessee. The birds, dogs and squirrels had a feast for sure.
My brother had to mow the yard while holding a tennis racket to swat the cicadas.
 
I’m in the Chicago area and no cicadas here yet! I haven’t seen or heard one! No bees either.🤷
 
Well, I was in Elmhurst, Villa Park and Lombard this weekend and in Elmhurst they seem to be EVERYWHERE. I saw them in only parts of Lombard and Elmhurst. They are way cool and I have prepared my dd for them, so she wasn’t too afraid when they were all over the ground and fence and tree and anything else that’s made of wood at her cousin’s. Also, I read that back in 1990 they didn’t emerge until June, so whoever said if they’re not out by June they won’t be coming out that wasn’t true in 1990.
 
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I’m in the Chicago area and no cicadas here yet! I haven’t seen or heard one! No bees either.🤷
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Oh, I have seen bees. But then again, their hives are in our garage along the windows and by the gutters.
 
gmarie21 said:
Well, I was in Elmhurst, Villa Park and Lombard this weekend and in Elmhurst they seem to be EVERYWHERE. I saw them in only parts of Lombard and Elmhurst. They are way cool and I have prepared my dd for them, so she wasn’t too afraid when they were all over the ground and fence and tree and anything else that’s made of wood at her cousin’s. Also, I read that back in 1990 they didn’t emerge until June, so whoever said if they’re not out by June they won’t be coming out that wasn’t true in 1990.
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I said that if they are not out by June, then they probably won’t appear. I said that because the scientists I read said the soil temps should be at 64 degrees or higher well before then and June 1st was seen as a late date for emergence. We’ll see how it goes.
 
It is very strange. In my area Cicadas came out in huge quantities in 1990, yet this time there is not even one sighting. Amazing and quite a curious thing because my area was already built during the 1990 emergence, yet nothing this time. We are also surrounded by woods and not a sight there either, not a sound of even one singing male. Quite surprising, yet it seems there just won’t be any here.
 
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It is very strange. In my area Cicadas came out in huge quantities in 1990, yet this time there is not even one sighting. Amazing and quite a curious thing because my area was already built during the 1990 emergence, yet nothing this time. We are also surrounded by woods and not a sight there either, not a sound of even one singing male. Quite surprising, yet it seems there just won’t be any here.
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Have they dug up the sidewalks/roads in your area anytime in the past 17 years? My neighborhood doesn’t have them, but a few blocks away they’re everywhere. A new sewer system was put in on a couple of the streets in our neighborhood a year ago which is why I think we don’t have any cicadas
 
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Have they dug up the sidewalks/roads in your area anytime in the past 17 years? My neighborhood doesn’t have them, but a few blocks away they’re everywhere. A new sewer system was put in on a couple of the streets in our neighborhood a year ago which is why I think we don’t have any cicadas
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No, and besides that there are none sighted in our entire town, or the towns close to us. It is frankly very strange.
 
Our near western suburbs are loaded. We visited Brookfield Zoo and the noise was overwhelming. Almost had to shout to be heard by the members in our own party. I don’t like those red eyed flying critters. They kept landing on us…and if we stayed still for very long, they were crawling up our legs. I will be happy when they are long gone. Except the sea gulls might complain…they are enjoying the feast.
 
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