Comments on: Emergence Updates and Website Changes

By: Christy Byrd

Christy Byrd — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:56:59 +0000

I live in Hampton, TN, and they have just started to emerge here. Their singing has just started, so it is tolerable for now, but I imagine it will get louder and louder over the next few days.

By: Kristie

Kristie — Sun, 25 May 2008 05:25:35 +0000

I’m in Louisville (J-town), they are all over my front yard. I have more than I deserve! We have a few in the back yard. We used to have a tree in the front yard. I guess they were on the tree’s roots?!? No one else on the street has them! I have not seen any white eye ones yet!

By: Lynne

Lynne — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:47:41 +0000

Cicadas have emerged in Pike County Ky, we live on a mountain and they have gotten lower and louder every day for the last four days.

By: Sarah Sullivan

Sarah Sullivan — Sat, 24 May 2008 05:32:23 +0000

Asheville sighting:
A BBC crew has been filming the cicadas in my neighborhood (North Asheville)for the last few days- part of a documentary on swarms to air next year. This is the first relatively warm night since they first began to appear a couple of weeks ago and I can see what seems to be a thousand of them hanging from the bushes and trees. Very spooky at night. They’re hitting the ground at a pace of about 3 or 4 a minute. They have to land the right way up and in just the right place- I hate that so many don’t make it. I’ve been trying to “help” them for days, moving the viable-looking ones out of the path of foot traffic and onto the larger trees. I’m getting fond of them and don’t want to see them go away.