Suffering Cicadas, They're All Over the Place!! (Page 3)

Michael Schauff leads research at ARS' Systematics Entomology Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland. He says the cicadas are basically harmless, but they get all over everything.

They overwhelm yards, bump into windows, fly into people's faces, and--when they finally die off, about four weeks after showing up--there will be so many they may even clog rain gutters and downspouts on your house.

Where Are They?

These periodical cicadas don't show up everywhere, but do cover large areas, mostly in the eastern United States.

"People start seeing them in early-to-mid May in parts of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, western North Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, and southern Michigan," says Schauff. "Other states may see them as well."

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