05-07-2013, 09:02 AM
LeNeve Wrote:Chip Wrote:LeNeve Wrote:are cicadas the ones that make that loud noise in the summer evenings, and leave weird alien bug shells on the trees?
Yeah.
I kind of remember them the last time they came around.
I don't think we had it real bad around here though.
we have them every summer, but they aren't a nuisance. I think it would be weird not to hear them making their noises in the summer actually.
I think 1.5 million of anything per acre laying 600 eggs each would be a huge nuisance.
The red-eyed insects, also known as Magicicada, tend to form denser clouds than other varieties of cicada. These swarms can be as dense as 1.5 million cicadas per acre, Cooley notes on his website. A single Brood II female, the website also says, can lay as many as 600 eggs before she dies, but we're much too scared to do the math on how many eggs per acre that would be.