Anyone Else Dealing with Cicadas?

I haven't seen or heard even one yet (ATL Metro area). I'm a little disappointed because I need the husks and bodies for planned art!

On a bug ID group today I saw I'm not the only ATL area person that hasn't seen any at all yet. Maybe they won't show up here, IDK.
There is a lot of woods behind my house so it's not for lack of trees.

Thankfully NO! omg, we dealt with the Cicada Armageddon a few years ago. It was horrible.   I would have been happy to hide in my house for the weeks they were here, but sadly work had a way of messing up that plan. So I had to go outside.   {{shudder}}

We were at Pere Marquette SP earlier in the week (north of STL) and now have moved closer to Springfield, IL and then are even louder!!!!

I just texted my sister that in a perfect world cicadas would eat gnats. OMG they are so bad. Neither bug spary or the thermacell work because, they just want to fly in your eyes. (The gnats not the cicadas, they just crawl up your legs)> You can't sit outside without a fire and up until today it has been too hot.

We have seen some interesting bird behavior. Yesterday we watched red headed wood-peckers scratching and stabbing at the ground. I don't think I've ever seen a wood-pecker on the ground for any length of time.

I LOVE the sound of cicadas! To me it's a quintessential summer sound, and I love everything about summer. I don't think I'd be too happy if they were flying into me while putting petrol in my car though!!

We get them later in the summer. I like the sound they make.
Our TN family is inundated with them right now

I’m in SE Virginia and they are all over. Our dog is so distracted by them and won’t do his business for quite some time when he goes outside. And they’re SO loud. I’m ready for them to be gone.

Not in my area of eastern South Carolina, thank goodness, but when we were living in northwestern Virginia back in 2021 they were so loud you could hear them over the roar of the traffic on I-81. They were every freaking where. I got out of my car to go into Target and it was like they were divebombing me. I screamed and ran in the doors. I don't like bugs that fly, jump, land on me, etc. If another brood emerges here, I'm definitely staying holed up in my house as long as possible!!

I agree, the cicadas buzzing in the trees is a summer thing. However, this infestation is not your usual summer cicadas. These cicadas are EVERYWHERE. Literally everywhere. You can't walk without really paying attention to where you're stepping. You can't sit in the yard because they'll fly into your hair  . You can't walk anywhere without risking one attaching itself to your clothes. Getting in the car is tricky because they'll come on in with you... Then you're driving and suddenly he'll appear crawling up your steering wheel!      "Yes officer, I'm sorry I hit that parked car...but there was a cicada crawling on me!" -- And, when you work with elementary school kids you get a class that's evenly divided between those who love cicadas and those who do not. So at recess the "love" group brings a few back to the class, or brings in the shells that are left on the trees, and then the "not love" group runs screaming in the middle of your math lesson.   My school's principal actually came on the PA to announce that NO ONE was allowed to bring live cicadas back into school. They were allowed to bring the shells but were NOT allowed to try to attach them to anyone else without that other person's permission. lol 

Omg, just typing all that out has brought the trauma back. 

I think we only have one type here of the annual kind and I detest the loud annoying buzzing sound they make. I Googled to see if we would see the massive influx of them like some are mentioning, and thank GOD the answer is no because my kid would totally freak the hell out. She hates all bugs of all kinds but especially anything that flies and could potentially land on her. I don’t know if I could stand all the endless screaming that would no doubt come with that.

St. Charles County here (just north of St. Louis) and this week has been a rough one! I actually got a headache Monday after listening to them all day! I'm thankful we never planned a graduation party in the backyard when these 13 year group popped out!

We are in the SW Chicago suburbs, and all my friends with older/more wooded property have tons of them. We are in a newer subdivision and back up to a cornfield, and we have not seen one single cicada!