Every 17 years, the temperate forests of West Virginia become cicadaland. We don’t have that much of a presence of cicadas. We usually get a few weeks of dog day cicadas in August into September, but they don’t last all summer.
But when we hit that particular year in the life cycle of the 17-year periodic these forests start buzzing as if they were somehow the jungles of Southeast Asia.
Never mind that just a few months ago, it was subzero (Fahrenheit).
This is now a jungle!
If you’ve never heard the sound these things make, here are few examples.
In the morning as they are getting fired up, and one up close in my fingers!
