Cicadas 2013 A bust

[Eagle Claw]

So where are all these millions of cicadias that were supposed to blanket the earth ? I live in Essex County and have not seen or heard one yet.
I know people in Bergen and Passaic County who have not heard or seen any, seems like a lot of BS and hype over nothing. I know someone is going to say they are all over Morristown area but that is not all over NJ like they hyped it up to be, mostly BS

 

[sneelhead]

they're here. i was throwing plugs for muskie at oxford furnace lake last weekend and it sounded like clinton fire house alarm was going off. could barely hear myself think.

 

[lightenup]

they're here. i was throwing plugs for muskie at oxford furnace lake last weekend and it sounded like clinton fire house alarm was going off. could barely hear myself think.

You ever get a Musky in there?

Also, I know a couple people that have plenty of cicadas..I haven't seen any...

 

[sneelhead]

You ever get a Musky in there?

Also, I know a couple people that have plenty of cicadas..I haven't seen any...

not me personally it was my first time although had several follows in a couple hours. all fish in the 35-40" range

 

[lightenup]

not me personally it was my first time although had several follows in a couple hours. all fish in the 35-40" range

Were you by the rec. area or on the snake infested rocks opposite the rec. area...or by the Goose shit soccer fields? I fished there once, didn't see anything....maybe I will go back..

 

[PRomano]

Well I live in north eastern Morris County and I have not seen or heard a single one! This years hatch has been very spotty. You either have huge swarms of bugs or none at all.

 

[Rusty Spinner]

I've not seen a one yet, but did hear them while surveying a mile reach of the Musky a week or so back. I've heard localized stories from those that have lots, but it didn't happen here.

 

[Catskill Mountain Man]

I remember the last one when I was 7 and they seemed everywhere!

Ive seen 2-3 but I hear them at work across the road.

 

[Trout Nazi]

They are spotty in Morris County. By my house, not a one. However when I ride my road bike up in the Denville/Boonton Township area, I running over them because they're all over the road. Very crunchy. Where I ride my mountain bike up in Ringwood, in some parts of the park there are zero, in other parts the trail looks like its full of bullet holes from them burrowing out, and the molted exoskeletons are everywhere. The parts of Ringwood where I don't see them correlates to where they are digging things up and moving heavy equipment for the gas pipeline work. In Morris county, I see them in areas where there hasn't been alot of development.

Bottom line, where theres been alot of development or heavy pesticide use on lawns, they're toast. Earth that hasn't been disturbed has them.

 

[Trouser Trout]

I heard them one evening while enjoying a single malt and a cigar, I found them annoying, and drowned them out with an a cappella rendition of Beethoven's Ode to Joy that would make the three tenors pipe down and take note, feeling outdone the little pests immediately quieted down and have yet to be heard from again. i finished my scotch and cigar and retired for evening.

 

[Petergoodman]

Saw an article asking about this last week- apparently they have spent the last 17 years munching on tree roots. Where trees have been pulled out in the interim, no cicadas. And over a 17 year time period, urbanization, building more condos and strip malls - less trees, so less bugs. But here is a question that may answer why less bugs in some wooded areas. Over the last 17 years we have lost more than a few trees where I live during Hurricanes Sandy and Floyd, as well as some freak storms like the Halloween Snow Storm in 2011. I wonder if all those trees that came down also led to less cicadas?

 

[Future Fanatic]

Moulting on the Bounty:

File:Cicada molting animated-2.gif - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Rusty Spinner]

I read something funny on Facebook about the cicadas and their 17 year hatching cycle. Imagine that there lives deep underground a monstrous insect capable of swallowing humans whole that is a year away from its 3,000 year cycle or something to that affect.:crap:

 

[Future Fanatic]

I read something funny on Facebook about the cicadas and their 17 year hatching cycle. Imagine that there lives deep underground a monstrous insect capable of swallowing humans whole that is a year away from its 3,000 year cycle or something to that affect.:crap:

With a big enough bug zapper, one could get a lot of $ for it in Asia.

You would need a REALLY big can...

 

[lightenup]

I read something funny on Facebook about the cicadas and their 17 year hatching cycle. Imagine that there lives deep underground a monstrous insect capable of swallowing humans whole that is a year away from its 3,000 year cycle or something to that affect.:crap:

Being that the Earth is only 5000 years old...it has only hatched once.....
Maybe Dragons ARE real too.....

 

[Rusty Spinner]

Being that the Earth is only 5000 years old...it has only hatched once.....
Maybe Dragons ARE real too.....

Saying things like that will only get you banned

 

[Trout Fever]

The cicadas are all over Newburgh and Cornwall hundreds of the loud ass bugs

 

[Eagle Claw]

A lot of hype over nothing. A friend of mine spent all kinds of money buying netting to cover her berry bushes and not one bug showed up.
Maybe the wacky weather we are having had someting to do with it.