7-06-04

As of today, 4 cicada species have been heard calling daily in Southern Maryland. A fifth species, Tibicen winnemanna is most likely calling in the mountains of the Mid-Atlantic states.

Tibicen chloromerus, Morning Cicada (8 second rising crescendo call) normally is heard from 7am to 11am.

Neocicada hieroglyphica, Hieroglyphic Cicada (call sounds like a remote controlled aircraft revving up) can be heard from around 9:30am through the afternoon until dusk (at 9:00pm). This cicada calls in small localized colonies and is quite obvious if one is listening for cicadas.

Tibicen robinsonianus, Robinson’s Cicada (call is a single grunt like sound repeated over and over) can be heard calling after Noon but is normally heard from 4pm to dusk  (about 9pm right now).

Tibicen lyricen, Lyric Cicada (a long continuous monotone rattle lasting more than 30 seconds) can be heard in the evening to dusk.

Two more species, Tibicen auletes and Tibicen davisi should be heard shortly.

7-05-04

Monday, July 05, 2004 10:52:42 PM

State: MD

County: Carroll

City: Westminster

Location: Up on Parr's Ridge, not far from Western Maryland (McDaniel) College.

Periodical Cicada Activity: I saw only one flying on June 8th.  I neither saw nor heard any in town until June 30th, when I heard one in my oak tree in front of my house.

Periodical Cicada Activity 1987: I lived in Southern California then.  We had no cicadas of any sort.

Comments: In 1974 I lived in Brown County, Indiana, and they were SPECTACULAR.  Sitting up in the fire-tower, one could hear waves of their song (like a chorus of chain-saws) pouring over the forest, up one hill and down the next, swirling, splitting and doubling back; fading out only to swell again, returning from three directions at once like a tidal force.

Monday, July 05, 2004 10:17:53 PM

State: MD

County: Anne Arundel

City: Arnold

Location: Laurel Valley Ct., across from Bay Hills shopping center

Periodical Cicada Activity: Numerous cicadas sighted flying around the treetops and later dead ones on the ground in the garden--but not nearly as many or as loud as in some other areas I visited (esp older Baltimore tree-filled communities).  Suspect this may be only first or second brood in my area since it was developed (early 80's).  Only occasionally loud individuals heard over din of the multitudes in the distance.

Periodical Cicada Activity 1987: My community (Laurel Valley Ct.) was built just a few years prior. 

7-04-04

Sunday, July 04, 2004 3:08:01 PM

State: VA

County: Fairfax

City: Fairfax

Location: Jennifer Drive, just north of Nellie White

Periodical Cicada Activity:

Emergence   May 10th2004

First song   May 14th 2004

Ending around June 10th 2004

Heavy emergence, unable to count...  :)

Periodical Cicada Activity 1987:

yes they did.. but we moved in in 2000... :)

Comments: This is old news, but thought you might want it.

Saw our first cicada emerging from a hole at Camp Crowell Girl Scout Camp in Oakton, VA, on Sat. May 8th in the afternoon.

At our home in Fairfax just two blocks north of Burke, four blocks from Ox Road route 123, our first emergences smack in our face were Monday morning May 10th. It was light at first, then steadily heavier. The first singers were 5/14/04.  By June 10th most of the sound had finished. We still heard the ones north of us...but by mid June they were gone.  Sad, sad. 

We thought we might count them... NOPE... way too  many.. in trees on bushes, under trees... many, many cicadas... Seeing the map helped me to understand that we really are on the southern side of the brood X... :) Great experience.

7-03-04

Saturday, July 03, 2004 3:29:17 PM

State: PA

County: Montgomery

City: Lower Gwynedd

Location:  Gwynedd Valley post office

Periodical Cicada Activity: WE WERE TOLD WE COULD EXPECT A VERY HEAVY AMOUNT OF CICADAS AND TO DATE HAVE SEEN NONE. IS IT POSSIBLE WE WILL NOT GET THEM AT ALL? MY DAUGHTER IN CINCINNATI AREA GOT A GREAT DEAL OF THEM ALMOST A MONTH AGO AS DID THE AREAS SOUTH OF PA. SO ASSUME THEY ARE NOT COMING FROM THE GROUND HERE SINCE TOO LATE. THANKS FOR YOUR FEELINGS AS TO THEM STILL COMING HERE. THANKS

7-02-04

As of Saturday, June 26, 2004, there were still cicadas in Sky Meadow Park near Paris Virginia. I heard them, and saw several live ones. Guess it is because it is cooler in the foothills?

Friday, July 02, 2004 11:25:27 AM

State: VA

County: Fairfax

City: CENTREVILLE

Location: Mountain View School

Periodical Cicada Activity: I counted 179,685 cicadas per quarter acre.

6-30-04

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 8:48:02 PM

State: MD

County: Montgomery

City: Laytonsville

Location: Shady Grove Metro (site of today's activity)

Periodical Cicada Activity 1987: There was plenty - we lived in North Chevy Chase, near the Audubon.

Comments: Heard loud and clear on June 30, 2004!

This was at the Metro station (Shady Grove) between the new garage and the east - bound exit. The temp was 85 degrees.

NOTE: This report may be of Neocicada hieroglyphica and not that of Magicicada spp. JZ.

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 12:15:33 PM

Other State: Ohio

County: Belmont

City: St Clairsville

Location: Union Local High School

Periodical Cicada Activity: None

6-29-04

Concerning the line between the Brood II and X areas in Northern Virginia. The map shows the line going through southern Fairfax County. I live in Prince William County and can confirm that we saw no emergence. However, we did see plenty of cicadas in Springfield and in Fountainhead Park, which is on the northern bank of the Occoquon river. So it would appear that the border between the broods is the Occoquan River - which forms the border between Fairfax and Prince William.

6-28-04

Steve, Your e-mail address (sheiss@ccpl.org) keeps getting kicked back. Please e-mail me again and I will send my response. JZ.

Monday, June 28, 2004 8:43:28 PM

State: DE

County: New Castle

City: Wilmington 

Location: Marshallton/Hockessin

Periodical Cicada Activity: No periodical activity in the northern part of the county.  Massive emergence in southern New Castle County near C&D Canal (Bear/Glasgow) ended about a week ago.

Monday, June 28, 2004 11:14:49 AM

State: MD

County:     

City: Baltimore

Location: Memorial Stadium

Periodical Cicada Activity: I have found a green-eyed cicada.  I found it alive last night but it died this morning 06/28/2004.

6-27-04

Sunday, June 27, 2004 10:41:44 PM

State:  VA

County: Prince William

City: Manassas

Location:

Periodical Cicada Activity:

Noise has really dropped off in the last two weeks in the Fairfax/Clifton areas. Only hear a few lonely souls at a time now, instead of thousands. Last Friday I was surprised to hear some and see flagging SW of Clifton and along Yates Ford Rd east of Manassas. It seemed to stop as soon as the road ends at Prince William Pkwy. I've found cicadas north and east of Manassas now, but they disappear as soon as I get to town. Haven't actually seen one in person since 2nd week of June. BTW This morning was the 1st time I've noticed the song of the annual cicadas. It's not summer til I've heard them!

Periodical Cicada Activity 1987:

Comments:

Love the site--can't wait to see the final map locations. Looks like my area has another 9 years to go. Interesting how the two broods are practically evenly spaced apart from each other.

Sunday, June 27, 2004 10:27:42 PM

State: PA

County: Chester

City: Wayne

Location: Old Eagle School

Periodical Cicada Activity: None

6-25-04

Friday, June 25, 2004 12:35:11 PM

State: PA

County: Perry

City: Newport

Location: Reststop on highway

Periodical Cicada Activity: This is report from a friend who just handed me specimens collected 13 June 2004. Many dead on ground, and lots in trees.

Friday, June 25, 2004 9:58:39 AM

State: WV

County: Grant

City:       

Location: West of Scherr

Periodical Cicada Activity:

                Someone posted a message saying that on June 20, they heard cicadas all the way between Petersburg and Keyser, but not in the higher mountains SW of Petersburg.  I decided to retrace that route, starting at my home near Harman, WV.

                I heard no cicadas between Harman and Petersburg.  I didn’t hear any north of Petersburg along Rt. 42 until I was just south of Scherr.  Nor did I see any obvious flagging.  Beyond Maysville, I heard a few in a couple of small patches along the road, but there was no place to pull off, so I kept going.  At Scherr I decided to return home instead of taking Rt. 93 to Keyser.  Rt. 42-93 climbs up to the Fore Knobs on the Allegheny Front and makes a switchback as it climbs above the Foreknobs.  There, just beyond the cleared fields, I heard lots of buzzing above and below the road.  There was a place to pull off, and a gated farm road descended from the highway.  I definitely heard decims but am still not able to distinguish the songs of deculas and cassinis.  I picked up and saved the following dead individuals:

Decim – three males

Decula – one male

Cassini – three males, one female, one indeterminate (end of abdomen missing)

Locust trees had been flagged there.  This flagging isn’t obvious from the highway. About 200 feet further up, the buzzing stopped, and I heard no more cicadas as I proceeded through Tucker County.

Friday, June 25, 2004 1:14:53 AM

State: PA

County: Montgomery

City: Lafayette Hill

Location: Near Ridge and Germantown Pikes

Periodical Cicada Activity: I haven't heard any cicadas at all, and I am very disappointed!!!

6-24-04

Thursday, June 24, 2004 3:26:52 PM

State: PA

County: Luzerne

City: Yatesville

Location: near Pittston Area High School adajacent to Insignia Point Community Developement Project.

Periodical Cicada Activity: 6/23/04   Activity almost terminated.  Very few left alive.  Decim only

Thursday, June 24, 2004 3:19:59 PM

State: PA

County: Berks

City: Pricetown

Location: Junction of 5 Points Road & Schweitz Road, Rockland Twp.

Periodical Cicada Activity: 6/24/04:  activity was waning, difficult to find specimens; cassini & decim present.

6-23-04

Wednesday, June 23, 2004 1:18:01 PM

State: VA

County: Fairfax

City: Annandale

Location: Rt. 236, Little River Turnpike

Periodical Cicada Activity: When I first reported on this site it was around May 5th, (noticed about 5 shells hanging on the brick) just outside my apartment complex, then all "heck" broke loose, from May 6th thru June 5th, the emergence was millions, I thought my area was the epi center. It was incredible how many we had at just our apartment complex. Bascially I felt house bound, they were so bad. I had to go to work, however took my trusty umbrella with me and ran and ran. Who ever says that don't swarm, that is not true. They were bigger this time then I remember from 1987 and much, much more of them. I noticed the decline in singing and emergence on or about June 10th or so. Now there are none to be seen or heard from. The flagging on the trees are incredible.

Periodical Cicada Activity 1987:

They were not quite as bad and heavy as this year 2004 and I don't remember them being so large in size. Sorry but I will not be in a state in 17 years for this again. They creeped me out! Sorry all you bug lovers. even though I never intentionally killed one, I would never do that.

Comments:

Thank you so much for this web site. It really helped me to understand these creatures of God!

Wednesday, June 23, 2004 9:55:44 AM

State: MD

County: Harford

City: Bel Air

Location: CmWright High School

Periodical Cicada Activity: In Bel Air town limits, and north and west...nothing.

Wednesday, June 23, 2004 7:57:41 AM

State: VA

County: RAPPAHANNOCK

City: WASHINGTON

Location: ROUTE 211

Periodical Cicada Activity: NONE! KIDS ARE VERY DISAPPOINTED! ME, TOO!

Comments: WE LEFT TOWN JUNE 6TH WITH NO CICADA ACTIVITY, THINKING IT WAS COOLER OUT THIS WAY AND THAT WHEN WE RETURNED TWO WEEKS LATER, WE MIGHT BE LUCKY. WE FOUND NO EVIDENCE THAT THE CICADAS EMERGED ON OUR PROPERTY AND MUST CONCLUDE THAT FOR SOME REASON THEY WILL NOT AT ALL.

HAVE YOU GOTTEN THE SAME KIND OF RESPONSE FROM OTHERS IN THE RURAL AREAS OF THE DC METRO AREAS IN VIRGINIA? THANKS.

6-22-04

Tuesday, June 22, 2004 6:58:56 PM

State: MD

County: Howard

City: Elkridge

Location: Meadowridge Cemetary Rt 1 & Meadowridge Rd

Periodical Cicada Activity: Cemetery was a great place to watch and hear the cicada's from mid May they were very active and very loud, but today June 22 not a sound, saw many dead and dead branches on trees, must say we are going to miss the little guys.

Tuesday, June 22, 2004 6:19:16 PM

State:       MD

County:      Montgomery

City:        Rockville

Location: Cabin John Parkway and Monroe St., Rockville

Periodical Cicada Activity: I thought the cicadas had all died out. I went to Dog Run Park on Sunday (6/20) to see if I could find any, but did not hear any. However, yesterday (6/21), I am pretty certain I heard some along Cabin John Parkway, and I heard some along Mt. Vernon Pl, and again where Monroe Street and Cabin John Parkway intersect. Haven't seen any in about a week, though.

Tuesday, June 22, 2004 12:16:57 PM

State:MD

County: Anne Arundel

City: Annapolis

Location:  Maryland Department of Agriculture

Periodical Cicada Activity: One live cassini female last night, well, sort of alive. T. chloromerus nymph collected 21 june outside office window, shed last night.

6-21-04

Monday, June 21, 2004 3:11:14 PM

State:       NJ

County:      Middlesex

City:        New Brunswick

Location: by Rt 1, Rt 18 and TPK

Periodical Cicada Activity: None, thank God. 

Comments: I have a feeling we get the annual ones in New Brunswick, which don't bother me as much as the periodical ones.  I've only lived here 6 years.  I remember the last invasion of the periodicals in Edison, though.Millions.

Monday, June 21, 2004 3:08:14 PM

State: NJ

County: Mercer

City: Princeton

Location: 87 Prospect St., east edge of University Campus

Periodical Cicada Activity: Very heavy from about June 1. Reporting in to say that today is the first day without substantial activity. June 18 (Friday) when I left work there were scores of cicadas in the trees around the building, vocalizing and flying around. Today I saw one single individual in flight and heard three or four "wah" calls from a tree outside. This would seem to be the end of the emergence. Often it's hard to gather end dates so I thought I'd let you know.

Joe, thanks for all the late season PA Sites!!!  JZ

Monday, June 21, 2004 12:54:44 PM

State: PA

County:  Lehigh

City:  Zionsville

Location: at Salem Evangelical Methodist Church in Upper Milford Twp

Periodical Cicada Activity: P3;  2 species present, decula probable

Monday, June 21, 2004 12:29:00 PM

State: PA

County: Luzerne

City: Askam

Location: south side of Nanticoke in Hanover Twp.

Periodical Cicada Activity: P6;  decim only

Monday, June 21, 2004 12:22:13 PM

State:       PA

County:      Schuylkill

City:        Zion Grove

Location: Zion Grove in North Union Twp

Periodical Cicada Activity: P4;  decim only

Monday, June 21, 2004 12:15:32 PM

State:       PA

County:      Berks

City:        Seisholtzville

Location: east of Seisholtzville in Hereford Twp.

Periodical Cicada Activity: P4;  2 spp present;  decula?

Monday, June 21, 2004 12:11:38 PM

State: PA

County:  Berks

City:  Kempton

Location: 2 mi s of Kempton along Rt 143 @ Pine Creek

Periodical Cicada Activity: P3; decim & cassini present

Comments: May be northern most station for cassini in PA

Monday, June 21, 2004 12:05:39 PM

State: PA

County: Schuylkill

City: Oneida

Location: 3 mi west of Oneida at "The Cove"

Periodical Cicada Activity: P3  only decim present

Monday, June 21, 2004 12:00:47 PM

State: PA

County: Northampton

City: Bethlehem

Location: Seidersville Road

Periodical Cicada Activity: P4   3 spp present  numerous decula

6-21-04

ANNUAL CICADA UPDATE!!! For Monday, June 21, 2004

• Tibicen chloromerus, the Morning Cicada is starting to call more frequently. This is the common cicada of the eastern US that has a loud crescendo call lasting about 8 to 10 seconds and is usually heard in the morning.
• Currently, three annual species have been reported so far this season:
• Tibicen lyricen was first reported emerging from Bowie, MD on May 31 (the earliest MD record ever!) but hasn’t been heard calling so far.
• Neocicada hieroglyphica was first heard June 7 at 11:35am (82°) on the Patuxent Naval Air Station in Maryland and has been heard daily, weather permitting..
• T. chloromerus was first reported this season on June 18 at Point Lookout State Park in St. Mary’s County, Maryland at 8:24am (78°).

We also had a report from Annapolis, Maryland of two Magicicada species calling (decula and cassini) along with 3 to 4 Neocicada hieroglyphica!!!! Live decim and live T. lyricen were also collected that day (June 18, Fri) making it a 5 cicada species day!!!

Monday, June 21, 2004 11:07:49 AM

State: West Virginia

County: grant

Location: from Keyser to just northeast of Petersburg

along route 220 south, route 42 and route 93

Periodical Cicada Activity: singing loudly on afternoon of 6/20 throughout entire route. Flagging of trees decreases from northeast to southwest. Little to no flagging observed south of intersection of Route 50 and Route 93. They appear to have emerged more recently south of this intersection. No cicadas in the high mountains to the southwest of Petersburg.

Monday, June 21, 2004 10:02:50 AM

State:       MD

County:      Garrett and Allegany

Location: Heard cicadas along road from MD State Rt. 135 where it drops down to the Potomac River, along State Route 36, I-68, and in Green Ridge State Forest.

Periodical Cicada Activity: I started hearing cicadas where MD State Route 135 descends to the Potomac River, but there was no place to pull off the road and the hillsides were steep.  I heard them frequently along I-68 as I headed east.  In many places trees were heavily flagged.  I left the Interstate at Exit 62 and went a short distance south into Green Ridge State Forest.  Here and there, where some sun was getting into the canopy, I heard buzzing.  I stopped at a convenient place and soon saw them flying around.  It was easy to find dead ones on the side of the road.  I easily captured a live one and brought it back with me.  (Now I feel badly that I did that to the little critter.  It is still alive.)  I drove a few tenths of a mile further and collected some more dead ones.

Now that I am back home and have gone back to the Univ of Michigan site, it appears that all the individuals I collected are female deculas.  I heard deculas (but I still have trouble distinguishing them from cassinis).  When I stopped in the state forest, I could clearly hear decims, but can't say I heard any cassinis.

Helen from Randolph County, when you report a sighting we do not get your e-mail address. Please send me your e-mail address through the comment section on this website. I need your help in collecting information on West Virginia annual cicadas. Thanks, John.

Monday, June 21, 2004 6:44:24 AM

State:PA

County: Bedford

City: Bedford

Location: route 220 7 miles south of bedford, pa.

Periodical Cicada Activity: I spotted the first cicadas May 16th on an apple tree in my yard. New ones kept coming for several weeks and as the weather got warmer it was difficult to do yard work because there were so many they flew into you and landed on you. as they emerged and climbed the apple tree in the morning when it was cool I swatted them with a thin flat board. This went on for at least two weeks until one hot afternoon I detected this fowl odor, it was the dead ones at the tree. As of june 20th the noise has slowed and I can only hear some far off in the woods. there are a lot of branch ends down and many many hanging on the trees. I thought they were more selective about trees but apparently not. They layed eggs in apple, oak, maple, chestnut, pear, locust about everything.

Periodical Cicada Activity 1987:

Yes but the damage was not as bad. I also had them in 1970 with minor damage to some young fruit trees.

Comments:

All around Bedford and in town there were zillions of the critters.

6-20-04

Sunday, June 20, 2004 10:59:00 PM

State: Georgia

County:      Union

City:        Blairsville

Location: 8.5 miles SW of downtown; 1 mile from corner of Old Blue Ridge Hwy & Hicks Gap Road.

Periodical Cicada Activity: Started in late April; would consider activity light; now almost non-existent. Many dead leaves on trees.  2-3 miles East there doesn't appear to have been any activity.

Sunday, June 20, 2004 7:10:53 PM

State: PA

County:      Berks

City:        Reading

Location: Nolde Forest State Park

Periodical Cicada Activity: Very Heavy

Comments:

We've been going out to Nolde Forest nearly everyday since May 21st. We've found 3 white eyed cicadas and 1 blue eyed. I am uncertain as to the precise species of the above cicadas. Please feel free to contact me and I will attempt to provide any other information requested. I also heard them along Rt422 between Birdsboro and Douglassville. Curiously we spend alot of time at Blue Marsh Lake park near Reading, Pa and we heard none whatsoever there.

Sunday, June 20, 2004 10:44:32 AM

State:       PA

County:      Montgomery

City:        Willow Grove

Location: Near PA Turnpike

Periodical Cicada Activity: Absolutely none.  Never saw or heard a single one.

Comments: No one at work has mentioned any activity either.  They seem to have missed the entire Philadelphia area and suburbs.

6-18-04