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None spotted by the coast area in Ocean County yet.
I'm really surprised I haven't seen any yet either. I'm in northern Ocean and completely surrounded by woods. Haven't heard a peep yet and I'm sure the ground is the right temp by now. Perhaps they aren't coming to this area after all.....
I was just in the woods across the street from my apartment filling a water bowl I put out there for the wildlife and no trace of any cicadas yet (upper Ocean county). I
I woud think they might not be in pinelands-type areas (which is not just restricted to New Jersey's official restricted pinelands reserve - other parts of monmouth and ocean county have that same biome) because of the acidic soil would mess with them trying to survive in the soil for 17 years, and also pine trees don't have good juices to eat I think (cicadas suck tree juice as their sustenance - one of the reasons they keep being proposed as good food, they eat pretty clean)
Cicadas need deciduous trees, not evergreen, so the pinelands aren't likely to have them.
There are more oak and maple trees (and others with leaves that I don't know the names of) than pine in my area. It's the woods that go behind Shenandoah Lake and seems more like a regular forest than a pineland. Across the street at Ocean County Park there's a lot of pine trees but not over here.
I haven't seen them either. I hear some kinda noise, and my family says they're out, but I remember them being EVERYWHERE when I was a kid. EVERYWHERE. I havem't seen them on any trees in any town areas I drive to, and when I drove past the nature preserve next to our house where ostensibly the noise is coming from , I didn't see any cicadas on the trees.
The first thing you're supposed to see is the white nymphs that crawl up the tree and then cucoon/solidify, right? It's after that that they grow the wings and look like adult cicadas. So far I haven't seen any white nymphs or cicada coccon things
I know its not a coccoon I just don't know what to call it. The little brown shells they make
Cicadas were crazy loud today in Kinnelon and Bloomingdale. I was appraising a house in Smoke Rise and they were quite loud. Then I did a lakefront on Glenwild Lake and they were ultra loud. It sounded like an alien spaceship in a 70's sci-fi. Didn't see them though, just heard them.
Yeah, people are essentially reporting that here on this thread. What's up with that? I can hear them I haven't seen any.
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