Emergence updates:
Randy Bigbie reports: “Here in Wilkesboro/Moravian Falls, NC in the Blue Ridge Mt. foothills. we have hundreds in our yard.”
Cathy Decker reports: “Several cicadas were discovered in the Pierce Community of Greensburg, in Green County Kentucky“.
Patricia Cooper reports: “They have arrived in Adairville, KY42202″.
Terry Samsel reports: “Cades Cove [TN] in the Smokeys” (TN).
(The website is finally getting more traffic than in it does during Australia cicada season, so I know the emergency is really underway.)
Site update:
I also added the Death Cab for Cutie advert because they’ve supported the site over the years.
Don’t Forget:
Don’t forget to Share your Cicada Images, Video and Text.
Davy’s cicada comic book will be available soon.
Last but not least…
Another photo from Roy of his home-raised cicada emerging
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.
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!
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.
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.