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Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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May 20, 2024, 7:25 AM
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I am not looking forward to those things again. They are disgusting and everywhere when they do show up. Most of all they are outrageosly noisy. I haven't noticed them starting up yet though.
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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May 20, 2024, 7:27 AM
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We have had a couple of dead ones on our porch, which is a bad sign, because where Cicadas go, Copperheads are sure to follow, since they are their primary food source.
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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May 20, 2024, 7:29 AM
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Good to know. I will watch out for my dogs. I didn't have dogs last time the cicadas came around.
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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May 20, 2024, 2:20 PM
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Cicadas love pines and Copperheads love cicadas. I've learned to never pull bark off a dead pine.
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110%er [5479]
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I've heard them in the woods for a couple of weeks....
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May 20, 2024, 7:48 AM
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...but just now seeing them in the driveway. Last week it sounded like three spaceships idling in the woods. Now its not as loud but they seem to be spreading out. My mothers porch has been littered with them since the start.
I don't know about the copperheads, but I saw a squirrel eating one. I'm in the cootlumbia are and the free range chickens around here should be fat, dumb, and happy.
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Re: I've heard them in the woods for a couple of weeks....
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May 20, 2024, 2:56 PM
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Same here in Charlotte. They're starting to die off... Are we sure cicadas like pine trees? I've driven by stands and it's quiet and stands of hardwood and it's crazy. I thought the opposite was true.
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Re: I've heard them in the woods for a couple of weeks....
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May 20, 2024, 3:47 PM
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I’ve been working out in the country the last several weeks about 10 miles from pelzer and they bad out here. It’s nothing but hardwoods. Hardly any pines. But, I’d rather hear the sound of these things than the sound of cars and crazy people.
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I haven't seen or heard them yet....
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May 20, 2024, 8:05 AM
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and there is a HUGE wooded area just behind my house.
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do Cicadas eat rabbits?
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May 20, 2024, 8:09 AM
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if so .. they cant get here fast enough.
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Re: do Cicadas eat rabbits?
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May 20, 2024, 9:42 AM
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Better yet..do they eat chickens?!?
Go Tigers
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i don't have any problems with chickens getting into my garden.
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May 20, 2024, 10:25 AM
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they usually go for the trash 
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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May 20, 2024, 8:13 AM
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Haven't seen or heard any in upstate SC so far.
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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May 21, 2024, 8:49 AM
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I hadn’t either until last week. They’re like flying #### roaches .. I’d stopped with the car running and thought I had a loose fan belt. Turned off the car and the noise was from these creatures.
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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May 20, 2024, 8:14 AM
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Y’all are missing out. They are just ending here in the midlands. Lauren’s county has been going for a month. Hit a tree on the edge of a field and hundreds will fly off.
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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May 20, 2024, 8:14 AM
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I have video but don’t know how to easily post it.
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I haven't heard the first one yet, but they are loud and proud here every
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May 20, 2024, 8:17 AM
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summer, so I'm a little surprised they haven't appeared yet. Seems to me they don't usually get cranked up here until it gets hot. Personally, I love to sit on the deck on a hot summer night with a cold beer (and in the old days, a good cigar) and listen to the cicadas; I find it very soothing in an amazing sort of way.
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Re: I haven't heard the first one yet, but they are loud and proud here every
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Was in Rock Hill last weekend watching the Big South conference championship and they were everywhere. A bunch of them just run slap into you!
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Yep, been plentiful in Rock Hill for last 3 weeks or so***
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May 20, 2024, 8:48 AM
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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May 20, 2024, 8:30 AM
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Been going on in my back yard for 3 weeks. Starting to die down. Never heard something so loud that last all day everyday for weeks in rock hill.
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They are out if they are gonna be out in your area. They were humming in
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May 20, 2024, 8:31 AM
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Huntsville AL last weekend!
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Have not heard any near Greer.
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May 20, 2024, 8:40 AM
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And, my neighborhood is near wooded areas.
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neither seen nor heard***
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They are so thick at Russell you can barely hear yourself
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May 20, 2024, 8:53 AM
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Think....saw two guys in a bass boat using Florida to slaughter big carp...huge carp are skimming around the surface inhaling the cicadas...
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Using flyrods...dagum autocorrect!***
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Thanks for that clarification - puzzled as to how Florida had
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May 20, 2024, 10:28 PM
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anything to do with Lake Russell.
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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May 20, 2024, 8:53 AM
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Due West Eskine College had some. Not here in Anderson yet!
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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May 20, 2024, 8:55 AM
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I haven't seen any cicadas but there's a lot of annoying buzzing from Libs of TNet on the Politcal Board. 😉
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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wow, you haven't seen any yet??? There swarms of them in Saluda and Lexington county. The sound outside is deafening. I've seen some places under big trees with thousands of dead ones.
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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May 20, 2024, 9:37 AM
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Eastern NC and haven't noticed them.
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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May 20, 2024, 8:59 AM
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Surprisingly no
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Seen and heard zillions of them.***
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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May 20, 2024, 10:50 AM
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Gaffney and Blacksburg has them. It sounds like a constant siren is going off because of all of them. I don't hear or see any of them in Chesnee though.
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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I live in the northwest midlands. They started here just before the last full week of April and are finally wrapping up. I’ve seen cicadas many times as we usually get at least a few every summer, but I’ve never seen this many before. Unbelievable thing to witness. I counted just under 500 in my yard one day a few weeks ago.
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Cicadas aplenty***
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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May 20, 2024, 12:02 PM
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They are in full swing in middle Jawja. A few weeks ago they were deafening load, but the noise has slowly decreased.
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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May 20, 2024, 2:21 PM
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I'm always amazed at how the 17 year cicada cycle seems to appear every other year.
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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We live in rural York County and they are everywhere on our property. We are surrounded by hardwood trees and it sounds like a bush hog PTO shaft at high speed.
We see some cicadas out here in the country but if you go into Rock Hill they'll attack you.
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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I was in the small town of Maxey’s GA over the weekend. It is just south of Athens. The cicadas were everywhere but dying quickly.
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They have just about run their course now -starting to see the dead ends
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May 20, 2024, 10:39 PM
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on the tree branches where the larva hatched and develop before dropping to the ground . One oak along my yard looks like half the leaves are brown. This has just started showing up the last couple of days. Can't hear them anymore here but last week my wife said she could hear them over the riding lawn mower when she was cutting grass. I took hundreds out of the pool skimmer and dumped them into the lake - turtles loved them. When they bit into them, I could see gray juice squirt into the water.
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Where are you folks who haven't been invaded?
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May 20, 2024, 10:19 PM
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This year, the sound is like a phaser gun on Star Trek. Been in mid-state SC for a month or more. May be fading now.
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Been heavy in the Newberry & Saluda Lake Murray area for over a month now!
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May 20, 2024, 10:39 PM
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They've really quieted down in the past few days!
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Re: Been heavy in the Newberry & Saluda Lake Murray area for over a month now!
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May 21, 2024, 6:35 AM
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We had them last year. Maybe they didn't get the Cicada Times to know when to appear!
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Cary NC - behind my house - they are loud during the day - about 3 weeks now
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May 21, 2024, 6:43 AM
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They sound like some high tech engine whirring away.
I’ve seen them all over the place. One freaked me out when I turned my head and there was one sitting on my shoulder.
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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There were a sheet load of them on Clark's Hill Lake about 3 weeks ago on out fishing trip. They sounded like something out of a Sci Fi movie.
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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The first time I heard them this year, I said the aliens were landing.
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
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Cicadas have been LOUD here for 2-3 weeks and are still going strong.
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Re: Cicadas...Have you seen any yet?
May 22, 2024, 3:27 PM
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Reminds me of my boyhood. We'd tape bottle rockets to them and light it.
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