Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for June 03, 2013

Are they 17 year space cicadas?

Just as long as it’s only for a while. After that, you become a pest.

So, what’s the buzz around R. U. Sirius?

Fish and cicadas stink in three days.

My uncle had a bait shop. He sold worms and other bait. For some reason grass hoppers and crickets sold like crazy one season…Next thing you know we had a locust invasion…..The last we saw of him was running through a field yelling “I’m rich! I’m rich!”

Gee, it hardly seems like it’s been seven years since the last one…

Gee, it hardly seems like it’s been seven years since the last one…

The new neighbors are going to complain about the noise.Disaster Area would complain about the noise.

@Kali39, Each generation takes 17 years, but there can be multiple generations in a single area and more in other areas. So it could have been 7 years since your last one. Eastern PA had them in ’71, ’88 & ’05, so that was 8 years ago.

In space, no one can hear cicadas . . . drop ’em out of an airlock . . . ☻

Our area is supposed to be inundated with them right now, but I’ve had exactly 10 in my back yard – all very quiet. Three miles down the road, however, it’s pretty loud al day.

In Florida it’s every day from spring through fall…every year…