RV I so agree with you. It was awful. I lived in Cinti for some 20 years and lived through two 17-yr eruptions plus several of the lesser ones. I remember running (not walking) from my car to the house one day & by the time I got to my door I had about a couple of dozen stuck to me.

I didn't mind the sound of them (lived through 2 'emergences' of them in PA), or their huge-ness but we had just planted a small orchard the spring they first emerged on our property. The females lay their eggs in the thin branches of trees, which then die and fall off. Not good for young trees.

OMG Marcia that reminds me of the young wild plum tree we had just planted. We went to A fabric store and bought several yards of tule that I sewed together and we draped over the entire little tree and gathered up on the trunk below so those suckers couldn't touch it. They probably would have killed it if we didn't protect it.

Wait until you've gone through a plague of locusts. I've lived through a few 17 year cicada hatches in my lifetime. Not as bad as some of you have described but the sound of them singing was deafening some nights. Still, that was part of growing up in the South so we never knew any different. Still, the cicadas didn't really bother plants, to my knowledge. It was the grasshopper (locust) hatchouts that did that.

Rhonda, I can't believe what you're saying about the mayflies and the plows. Wow. And I thought FL had bug problems! The closest I've seen to that is when we had a bad red tide and they had to bring in front end loaders to get all the dead fish and seaweed off the beaches.

I've enjoyed all your stories :) No matter where we live, Mother Nature has her sick funny side lol

Winter OMG those fish flies remind me of the 17yr cicadas. In case anyone wants to know what a 17-yr cicada invasion is like here is a link to the 2008 invasion.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rwOnxKNIQHg

Yeah, bea, only they appear every single year. :)

Winter oh wow! I guess one invasion every 17 yrs isn't nearly as bad as one every year. I feel sorry for all those folks in Michigan :(

Luckily it doesn't last long, and it's mostly only really bad right near the water. The fishing is great then, though, so we had to be there and be open for the guests who were willing to brave them.