The 17 Year Cicada Invasion

Cicadas emerge every year, and they are either the seventeen or thirteen year cicadas.  Each brood emerges different years and locations.  This year we are going to see brood V emerge. it will occur in the purple area on the map.  The Brood will emerge in Ohio and West Virginia, with some in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia.  So for everyone wondering when and where use the map from the US Forest Service.   The cicadas will emerge by the billions from the ground and climb the trees they have been feeding from.  Then they will sprout wings, make an ungodly amount of noise from their mating calls, and die within a couple of weeks.  Their offspring will return to the ground to feed on the sugar from the roots of trees, for seventeen years.  Then next year a new brood will emerge and it all happens again.  This cycle is one of the great mysteries of the insect world.  By the way they make great bait for bass.

Fish On!!

Rich King