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Posted: 5/15/2021 7:34:23 PM EDT
[#1]
They say they taste like shrimp...
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Posted: 5/15/2021 8:56:29 PM EDT
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Dog will not stop eating them. And then pukes. Fun times.
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Posted: 5/15/2021 10:54:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They say they taste like shrimp... No thanks. They can have “em. |
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Posted: 5/15/2021 11:41:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No thanks. They can have "em. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: They say they taste like shrimp... No thanks. They can have "em. |
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Posted: 5/16/2021 9:32:16 AM EDT
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Saw a few shells stuck to trees in the Fair Oaks area of Fsirfax on Friday.
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Posted: 5/16/2021 9:44:10 AM EDT
[#6]
Out in numbers this morning. Crawling in the grass, up the trees, coming out of shells.
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Posted: 5/16/2021 9:51:37 AM EDT
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NW Loudoun County. Haven't seen a single one.
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Posted: 5/16/2021 3:03:13 PM EDT
[#8]
Thousands in my front yard where a large maple once was. Neighborhood kids are all over collecting them in buckets.
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Posted: 5/16/2021 4:11:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Thousands in my front yard where a large maple once was. Neighborhood kids are all over collecting them in buckets. I notice that you're in VA. But that's a pretty big place. Mind telling us where in VA you are? |
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Posted: 5/16/2021 4:15:40 PM EDT
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I hit one on the motorcycle on Thursday.
Have see on in the yard when I moved a big log. Nothing coming up out of the ground or climbing up trees yet. Nothing like 17 years ago when we were out camping and had a big rain storm that stopped about 10 PM and they all came out about midnight. Kids had fun that night. |
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Posted: 5/16/2021 4:33:05 PM EDT
[#11]
@conductor
Just southwest of Reston |
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Posted: 5/16/2021 6:18:46 PM EDT
[#12]
@conductor
Reston |
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Posted: 5/16/2021 6:42:34 PM EDT
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Haven't seen anything here in Spotsylvania.
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Posted: 5/16/2021 6:52:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Thousands in my front yard where a large maple once was. Neighborhood kids are all over collecting them in buckets. Collecting shells or bugs? |
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Posted: 5/16/2021 7:40:30 PM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Dog will not stop eating them. And then pukes. Fun times. They're all over the damn place in NoVA; I must've crunched a dozen or so walking the dog earlier today, and that was with trying to not crunch them. |
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Posted: 5/16/2021 8:03:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Collecting shells or bugs? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Thousands in my front yard where a large maple once was. Neighborhood kids are all over collecting them in buckets. Collecting shells or bugs? Bugs |
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Posted: 5/16/2021 8:10:14 PM EDT
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Went to Wegman's and Lowes in Leesburg today. Stopped in Paeonian Springs at a vegetable stand on the way home.
Still no sight (or sound) of cicadas. |
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Posted: 5/16/2021 8:31:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Bugs LOL. End up with buckets full of molting cicadas? |
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Posted: 5/16/2021 8:37:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: LOL. End up with buckets full of molting cicadas? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Bugs LOL. End up with buckets full of molting cicadas? Buckets full of cicadas that have already molted. Throw them in the air and they fly. It’s been too cool at night for them to make a racket. I had about a 100 on a small Japanese maple and I was throwing them in the air and birds were having a blast. One dragonfly swooped in a grabbed on out of the air. Didn’t know dragonflies were heavy lifters. Just looked at my lawn and there are 100s more crawling out. I’m the only one on the court with any. Strange. |
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Posted: 5/17/2021 12:23:34 PM EDT
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Just got back from a run which included Frying Pan Park. The only evidence of cicadas is my front yard. I must be jinxed.
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Posted: 5/17/2021 1:27:02 PM EDT
[#21]
You can tell where trees USED TO BE.
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Posted: 5/17/2021 1:40:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They say they taste like shrimp... hmmm…. I wonder how they’d taste to a largemouth bass… |
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Posted: 5/17/2021 2:21:18 PM EDT
[#23]
The are some in the driveway at the in-laws in Fairfax city. David
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Posted: 5/17/2021 2:44:53 PM EDT
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If my neighborhood is newer than 17 years will I see/hear them?
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Posted: 5/17/2021 3:47:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If my neighborhood is newer than 17 years will I see/hear them? Depends how long ago they ripped out the trees. They might not have survived. So you may not see many. But you will still hear them. |
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Posted: 5/17/2021 4:21:38 PM EDT
[#26]
Worked in the garden all weekend here in beaverdam, didn’t see the first one.
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Posted: 5/18/2021 1:15:38 AM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Went to Wegman's and Lowes in Leesburg today. Stopped in Paeonian Springs at a vegetable stand on the way home. Still no sight (or sound) of cicadas. I’m in NW Loudoun and saw my first of the year tonight. |
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Posted: 5/18/2021 9:13:31 PM EDT
[#28]
Ground was developed here around 1999, none in Gainesville/bristow hoods that Ive seen. Seeing alot in Chantilly, developed back in mid 80s.
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Posted: 5/19/2021 11:57:36 AM EDT
[#29]
Have not heard (or seen) much in Culpeper (town).
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Posted: 5/19/2021 1:26:03 PM EDT
[#30]
Not any here in Warrenton that I’ve seen yet. House was built in 2001....
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Posted: 5/19/2021 1:58:15 PM EDT
[#31]
Starting to see them in downtown Leesburg and out in Bluemont.
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Posted: 5/19/2021 6:57:32 PM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I’m in NW Loudoun and saw my first of the year tonight. I'm about 3 miles S of Lovettsville, and haven't seen a single one. Where in NW Loudoun are you? |
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Posted: 5/20/2021 8:07:40 AM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm about 3 miles S of Lovettsville, and haven't seen a single one. Where in NW Loudoun are you? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I’m in NW Loudoun and saw my first of the year tonight. I'm about 3 miles S of Lovettsville, and haven't seen a single one. Where in NW Loudoun are you? Lucky you. I have to sweep 100's of shells and bugs off my front porch each morning. |
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Posted: 5/20/2021 9:12:36 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Just got back from a run which included Frying Pan Park. The only evidence of cicadas is my front yard. I must be jinxed. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/34385/83A0D205-8BE5-4991-AC44-332861E9F8B8_jpe-1945699.JPG Do you water your lawn? Cicadas come out after a heavy rain when the ground softens up. I remember 17 years ago, my boys were in scouts and we were camping out. Had thunderstorms come through Saturday night about 7-10 PM. At midnight the cicadas started coming out. |
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Posted: 5/20/2021 10:09:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Do you water your lawn? Cicadas come out after a heavy rain when the ground softens up. I remember 17 years ago, my boys were in scouts and we were camping out. Had thunderstorms come through Saturday night about 7-10 PM. At midnight the cicadas started coming out. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Just got back from a run which included Frying Pan Park. The only evidence of cicadas is my front yard. I must be jinxed. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/34385/83A0D205-8BE5-4991-AC44-332861E9F8B8_jpe-1945699.JPG Do you water your lawn? Cicadas come out after a heavy rain when the ground softens up. I remember 17 years ago, my boys were in scouts and we were camping out. Had thunderstorms come through Saturday night about 7-10 PM. At midnight the cicadas started coming out. Nope, haven’t been watering. Cicadas were only coming out where a had an old maple removed last November. Maybe that urged them to come out earlier than the rest. They are finally starting to emerge from neighbors yards. |
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Posted: 5/21/2021 11:00:40 AM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm about 3 miles S of Lovettsville, and haven't seen a single one. Where in NW Loudoun are you? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I’m in NW Loudoun and saw my first of the year tonight. I'm about 3 miles S of Lovettsville, and haven't seen a single one. Where in NW Loudoun are you? I’m 4.5 miles south of Lovettsville. We’re practically neighbors. |
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Posted: 5/21/2021 12:12:01 PM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Nope, haven’t been watering. Cicadas were only coming out where a had an old maple removed last November. Maybe that urged them to come out earlier than the rest. They are finally starting to emerge from neighbors yards. I have about 20 on the big maple in my front yard today. |
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Posted: 5/21/2021 12:51:33 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: They say they taste like shrimp... Unshelled shrimp? Finally heard a few in Culpeper town. |
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Posted: 5/21/2021 3:19:39 PM EDT
[#39]
Slow going so far... maybe this weekend? Probably need a good rain to wake 'em up.
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Posted: 5/21/2021 5:06:16 PM EDT
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S.E. Loudoun. No sign yet.
 I like listening to them.  |
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Posted: 5/22/2021 9:35:18 AM EDT
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They’re out now. All over the yard, constant background hum has started.
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Posted: 5/22/2021 2:27:35 PM EDT
[#42]
I've finally heard and seen them!
Took my wife and youngest child for a walk in my old Fairfax Co. neighborhood. Took a photo of one on a sweetgum leaf.  I wonder how they taste?   |
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Posted: 5/22/2021 5:14:05 PM EDT
[#43]
The cacophony is immense now they are all over our neighborhood.
Sounds like a flying saucer. 
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Posted: 5/23/2021 7:14:15 AM EDT
[#44]
Haven't seen/heard anything yet.
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Posted: 5/23/2021 7:16:37 AM EDT
[#45]
Haven’t seen any of them on Manassas…yet.
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Posted: 5/23/2021 8:15:58 AM EDT
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Fed a bunch to chickens in Clarke county yesterday. They love them.
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Posted: 5/23/2021 12:41:44 PM EDT
[#47]
As a small kid, I was very afraid of cicadas when I first saw them in the early '80s.
I thought they were giant hornets!   I'm cool with 'em now, tho.  ETA: F@!# real hornets! |
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Posted: 5/23/2021 4:11:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Fed a bunch to chickens in Clarke county yesterday. They love them. My dogs go to chow town on them every chance they get.  |
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Posted: 5/23/2021 4:49:32 PM EDT
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My development here in Haymarket is ~16 years new so no brood around here.
Spent yesterday and today camping at Lake Fairfax w my son and his Cub Scout troop and we got to see the cicadas firsthand. Neat. Still not as crazy as it was in Vienna in 87. Seemed like there were way more back then. |
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Posted: 5/23/2021 10:34:45 PM EDT
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They don't taste like shrimp. My kids wanted to try them since so many people mentioned eating them. So last night we "picked" some freshly molted ones. Today we fried them. Dipped in egg and then seasoned flour. Fried in vegetable oil. I was expecting them to "pop" like a grape. They did not. In the end the boys all ate two and the girls ate one each. It wasn't nearly as awful as any of us expected. My best description at flavor would be mild ground/soil taste.
My kids have also been filling up buckets with them. Yesterday one of them had 170. |
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