Billions of bugs are set to arrive after a long 17-year incubation on the east coast. Some refer to it as biblical proportions, but it seems this plague of bugs is more harmful to the hearing, then to anything else. The cycle of life for the cicada is unique, in that the male and female mate, after an ear piercing rendition of the cicada song. Then the female will lay 24 fertilized eggs on small live twigs. The eggs hatch in about 6 weeks and the nymphs emerge. The male and female bugs live between two to six weeks after mating.
Cicada Mania says: ‘Brood V periodical cicadas will emerge in 2016 in parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Long Island, NY.’
Those states are expected to see members of the Magicicada cassinii, Magicicada septendecim, and Magicicada septendecula species, according to the website.
According to Cicada Mania, ‘Generally speaking, these cicadas will begin to emerge when the soil 8″ beneath the ground reaches 64 degrees Fahrenheit.’
‘A nice, warm rain will often trigger a emergence.’
‘So, definitely May, but something might happen in April if we have a particularly hot spring.’
There could be as many as 1.5 million of the bugs per acre
Source: Daily Caller
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Gee i didn’t know Oklahoma was considered east coast. We have them here also. Ugh
Cicada=Semi in Japanese still hurts my ears on Okinawa & the States;Owww !
Oh nooooo
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