Billions of cicadas, are expected to swarm the East Coast--happens every 17 years (metropolitan area)

[StaggerLee22]

Billions with a B.
Gonna be a loud spring.
Billions of cicadas, are expected to swarm the East Coast from New England to North Carolina this spring after remaining underground since the 1990s.
The Brood II cicadas are expected to appear in large concentrations along the East Coast between mid-April and late May, a ritual nearly two decades in the making.
Invasion: Billions of cicadas are expected to swarm the East Coast from New England to North Carolina this spring after remaining underground since the 1990s
Brood II is a periodic cicada that hatches out every 17 years,’ Craig Gibbs, an entomologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Queens Zoo, told CBS News.

[StaggerLee22]

Here's what they sound like:

Summer cicada sound and video - YouTube

[jcoltrane]

LMAO! That you actually posted, "what they sound like"!

How stupid can an idiot be, that has never set foot out of the concrete jungle?

Anyway, they've been making the same damn prediction since I was a kid!

Bumpkus!

[StaggerLee22]

I'll bet you there are P L E N T Y of people in NY that have never once heard it.
Plenty.

[bluedog2]

Actually there are cicada swarms almost every summer but from different broods, so most people have heard cicadas and many people hear them every year.Individual colonies swarm only once every 17 years but others swarm on alternate years.This years predicted swarm by brood 2 is expected to be larger than many other swarms but not unprecedented.Many parts of the NYC metropolitan area won't even hear them because parts of the area are not in the swarm zone.

[124c41]

When my kids were younger ,these things were all over our pecan tree, now and then. I would catch one, and get a very light, very long piece of thread, and tie it around the middle of the cicada, or locust, as we called them. The kids would walk around with the locust flying high above them, and have a blast. The longer the thread, the higher they would fly. My youngest kids would hold the locust by the middle, and with the wings beating furiously, fan themselves on those hot Texas summer days. It was like your own personal fan. Hey, country folks look for entertainment where they can find it, I guess.

[Kefir King]

Seventeen years ago I waited in anticipation. I searched and searched and searched and never saw one.
I hope they put on a show this time becasue I may not get another chance.