Common Nature

>> I have heard so much about the double Cicada hatch, it sounds like it is going to be really noisy! <<

Mine haven't started singing yet.

>> The farmers in the Midwest must be very concerned. <<

Cicadas don't eat plants as adults. The most they do is kill a few twigs laying eggs. The nymphs don't cause problems underground either.

>>I hadn't thought before about what a heyday it will be for birds, if they eat them. What an experience. I have never lived around them.<<

The ground is sprinkled with discarded wings, shining gold in the sun. Birds pick off the wings when eating cicadas.

>>South of us they have Mormon Crickets here in Idaho but I dunno if they make a noise, I think just a huge mess on the roads.<<

That doesn't sound fun.