Cicadas - did they ever appear in numbers?

[Old Dog 19]

I remember all the post about them but no longer read any news about them. I am old enough to have lived through the times when you had to have someone pick them off your body before enter the house. However, each occurrence after that had fewer and fewer. I am thinking that development of land has killed off a lot of them. So what is the 411 about the Cicadas in NJ?

[ogfarmer 138]

I didnt see any here in Hillsborough, I did get my car pelted by them one day heading north on 287 towards Morristown back in June. Martinsville and Berkley Heights reported having large numbers

[lunker 274]

When I was a kid in the 70's, I remember them being everywhere. Their skeletons would crunch under my sneakers any time I walked somewhere, and their empty hulls would be attached to trees all over. This time around, I barely noticed them. 

[Heavyopp 167]

Depends where you are ---  For the most part they where a total flop --  But some places had them thick -- but it was very isolated

 

One house would have them so thick you couldn't cut the lawn,  a block away and nothing --  This was in Edison on Remington drive

 

Also was at a customers house yesterday where the empty shells are still stuck on the trees --  Scotch Plains -- brookside drive

 

Homeowner said that you couldn't go outside without cicadas getting on you --  lasted 6 weeks

 

Personally,  I had nothing in my area --  Boro of Middlesex, dunellen, piscataway where all a no show

[alec.mc 180]

I havent seen a single cicada so far this year.

[Malice4you 627]

Washington Township in Morris County here - I saw a few fly around, but hardly even saw any attached to anything.  They were around - heard them all around me...but never really saw any numbers.  Apparently some of the parks by me were supposedly hit hard, but I didn't get to them so I couldn't say what kinda numbers there were.  I was expecting worse in my neighborhood, considering theres few houses, and a lot of land that's not been touched...

 

Worst I can say I encountered was an annoying noise in the distance...

[greatgunstatenj 32]

I've actually been hearing them in Somerset over the past week, one or two, here and there. Otherwise I hadn't seen nor heard any except for an area in Staten Island, they were plentiful to say the least.

[AnthonyG 36]

I saw one, and he got the true death by my weed wacker, when I was trimming weeds. You have to also remember wherever there has been new construction in the past 17 years odds are the cicadas in that area got killed when the ground was ripped up.

[HuntingPaper 62]

I found one dead on my driveway

 

 

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[Albanian 121]

The last one when I was eight, seventeen years ago, I remember them being fucking everywhere. This time around I only ran into them (or should I say they ran into my windshield) on the way to Easton Fish and Game on Rt 78 W.

[M1152 713]

We didn't see any in Trenton or Hamilton but weren't expected to see them. I think the best Cicada post was one of the member’s was blowing them off the berm with some 7.62x54r

[bhunted 887]

I haven't heard nor seen any. My wife claims she heard a brief chatter one day. But otherwise, nice and quiet.

[msokad 3]

I use the park that goes from Rochelle Park to Ridgewood. The entire length you can hear them and in large numbers.

[RUTGERS95 890]

I havent seen a single cicada so far this year.

I'm with you, not a one

 

Middletown here

[beltfedmx5 0]

I'm in a very rural part of Morristown. I had thousands yes thousands this year. The skeletons are still everywhere. Massive huge grave piles at bases of trees. On any given day the cicadas where sooooo loud ,they sounded like an alien space ship landing. At one point one side of my house was almost covered in exoskeletons. Got whacked in the forehead at 35 mph on my motorcycle with my visor up. Ouchhhh.

[Austin1629 1]

I have heard them off in the distance around here, but haven't seen any.

[mipafox 438]

They went absolutely crazy in parts of Somerset and Morris Counties for a couple weeks. I drove on 287 a couple times and the sound was deafening inside my car at 65 mph with all the windows closed. It almost hurt my ears.

 

Where I live I never saw or heard a single one.

[beltfedmx5 0]

One section of my house.

[Krdshrk 3,877]

Haven't seen/heard any in Linden.

[jrfly3006 42]

Haven't really had any all summer..but they've begun to make some significant noise this week in Marlboro area...and those Cicada killer wasps are showing up too..

[Secret Squirrel 3]

Didn't see a single one near my house, I am thinking maybe the flooding from Sandy had something to do with it?

[liquidskin 3]

Westfield was completely infested, when it first started I thought it was an alarm.

 

 

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[Fishpaw 17]

They went absolutely crazy in parts of Somerset and Morris Counties for a couple weeks. I drove on 287 a couple times and the sound was deafening inside my car at 65 mph with all the windows closed. It almost hurt my ears. Where I live I never saw or heard a single one.

Same here....I was on 287..doing at least 65...music on..and it took a moment to realize what the odd noise was. I turned off the radio..and opened the window and it was insanely loud. ....In South Brunswick area, Ive heard maybe a few and only saw one casing.

[frankv64 0]

Colonia had lots

[brucin 923]

Heard a few in Denville but no infestation.

[PeteF 1,044]

Westfield, and Berkley Heights got swamped.  People were picking up the bodies with shovels.

[Kimber45 3]

Nothing to report in Branchburg only one I saw fell prey the the cicada killer wasp's .....

[DirtyDigz 1,812]

Short Hills/Millburn area - At the peak of their emergence the parking lot at work was littered with them and I would hit 3-5 with my windshield on the way home.

[mipafox 438]

 

When I was a kid in the 70's, I remember them being everywhere. Their skeletons would crunch under my sneakers any time I walked somewhere, and their empty hulls would be attached to trees all over. This time around, I barely noticed them. 

 

 

Did you ever get hit with Gypsy Moth caterpillars during the 80s? Talk about not being able to walk without stepping on stuff. And it wasn't exoskeletons, it was goo filled wiggly worms.

[Nick T 4]

We have em in Jackson