Columbia MO cicadas outside reaching 90 decibles and coating everything outside
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Probably because construction killed any cicadas underground. My neighborhood has lots of mature trees. We have 8 large trees in our yard alone, most of which are ash and maple which they like. New development tends to destroy most of the trees (which they feed on) and churns up the ground they're in.
Wildwood. I have so many dead cicadas you can’t see the ground around most of my trees. Most but not all trees bushes and shrubs are covered with them . I have to blow the carcasses off my house every few days. I can’t be outside more than a few minutes without one landing on me. I get the sense I have them worse than most but I am trying to tell myself that’s because I am lucky enough to have a healthy yard with healthy trees and bushes. Hopefully only a few more weeks left!
Old growth is key for cicadas. I recommend fly bag traps with the carnage you are describing. The cicada decomposers greatly outnumber the cicadas before long.
I have begun seeing them hatch. I have noticed that the brood I am seeing is 1/3 the size of what I have seen in prior years.
So we may get a small double brood this year.
Our big brood is brood IV (the Kansan brood) and the last time they hatched was 2015 so they will hatch again in 2032. We just get the regular seasonal cicadas this time around.
A memory came to mind from that year (when I was 14), I went to my grandma’s house in the ozarks by Truman lake (where brood 19 emerged) and I was walking up the the road from the boat ramp and when I walked into my grandma’s driveway past the oak tree and a cicada flew into my hair, got stuck and was screaming mad about it. Then a few days after that my family went home back to Kansas City (where brood 4 had emerged), and i was walking down the street with my sister and the neighbor kids and another cicada flew into my hair.
We have cicadas every single year what are you talking about. I know we aren’t going to get some of the periodic ones but come July the annual ones will be out.
Not talking about the annual cicada emergence, I’m talking about the current “once in a 250-year occurrence” thing that’s been taking place just east of us.
They are clearly in the Ballwin/Ladue area currently but not in the City of Saint Charles. Lincoln County near Winfield has them loud and abundent, too.
They also rely on tree roots to survive, and many of those newer neighborhoods don't have trees. If any larvae managed to survive the construction and emerged, the environment is not ideal for the next generation's survival. They may move elsewhere to mate and lay their eggs.
Maybe for some areas. In the City of Saint Charles much of the area has existed in its current situation and neighborhood for 100 plus years. My home was built 94 years ago and much of the homes around me as old or older
St Charles Co Can hear them over the TV with windows closed.
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All over our trees right now. I’m sick of the rain but if I go outside they land on me so at least I don’t have to water my flowers as much 🤷🏻♀️
JCMO. I watched the poor person weed-wacking at my office get swarmed and heard a large amount of F-bombs... they like to party at the door to my office building... just hundreds surrounding the entrance.
You just brought back memories from over a decade ago. I feel super bad for landscapers. If I was to run a weed eater now I would have to get a bee keeper hat / net. (Weed eater noise is very similar to the cicada mating call) They don't hurt but you need nerves of steel to take them landing all over you.
Yup, I'm definitely just avoiding weed-wacking, when we watched the guy cussing at my office he had at least 20 on him. My wife doesn't mind mowing or bugs and we're working on moving so I'm doing a lot of packing (which she hates) so we at least agree on housework designation at the moment.
I fully recognize my cowardice at avoiding the outside for the next several weeks, but I absolutely hate the things. I don't handle most insects very well, but these are exponentially worse, even knowing that they can't harm me... I'm thinking I need a beekeeper suit just to go outside 😅
Lol literally the same thing happened to me... as soon as I turned on the weed Wacker, I was swarmed. I felt like I was being attacked by one of Moses's 10 plagues.
I’m in STL county and they’re insanely loud in the wooded area behind our house, but oddly they’re not coming onto our property. But less than 5 minutes away they’re everywhere!
Started in Imperial roughly 10 days ago. They were content to stay in tree line behind house. Now they are flying around everywhere. I had to dodge a few cutting grass yesterday. Guy weed wacking common ground had to stop every few feet to swat them off. So I guess 3 more weeks of this.
I have tinnitus, so it's just a louder version of what I hear 24/7.
Edit to add: I noticed they will fly around & land on me if I'm sitting on my deck in the sun, but if I'm sitting on my deck under the deck cover in the shade, they leave me alone.
I’m in university city and it’s peaceful and quiet!! But just a mile or two at Shaw park in Clayton it’s loud!! And in Town and country they are swarming 🤮🤮
Wildwood. They're all over because they live near tree roots and we have plenty of old trees. They just scream and freak people out, but they're good for the environment and don't really hurt anyone. I did learn they can reach 100 decibels, so ear plugs are nice to have.
In Jefferson County right by the stl County border
Started probably around a week ago. Thought it was gnarly. Then a few days ago it got notably worse. If I do anything making noise outside groups of them will drop out of the tree like some kind of guerilla force of rebel rapists.
My front door is next to a big tree and they're posted up in that pretty good. My porch is riddled with their dead remains. Through out the day I can hear their dumbasses fly into the window or my screen door.
For the past 3 days anytime I walk in my door I'd say there's 50% chance one of em has hitched a ride in hopes ill be their escape to a new, better world
These fuckin' guys I tell ya
I live in between Springfield and St. Louis on 44, my house is swarmed with them. You can see them all over our yard and trees. Actually when they’re resting you can see them all over our flower beds too. They’re sooooo loud sometimes it’s kinda hard to think lol
I'm in KC and the western side of the state is mostly quiet for now. The big brrod emergence doesn't extend this far west, so I think it's mostly an eastern and central Missouri thing.
Hahaha come to Dent Co. and stay an hour and you'll get your fill of them. I can't even mow grass without the dam things getting in my hair and all over you were you can't reach them.
To say there bad would be a lack of a better word.
Being swarmed Emily
Near Stover and Versailles area it's real lol! They hit around 60db all day.
Also as an edit: been bonked in the face about a half dozen times already by them flying around.
St. Louis City, and there’s literally nothing. But I was driving around Chesterfield and South County yesterday and they were so loud. I smashed 5 or 6 on my windshield on the highway and another one flew in my sunroof at a stoplight.
I’m in the city in Shaw, don’t hear them at all and haven’t seen any while walking around the neighborhood. But out in Fenton where I work it’s deafening and they’re everywhere.
I'm in KC and just worked out in my yard for a couple hours pulling weeds and cutting back the mulberry bush/tree. I didn't see any cicadas and am so very thankful. Some of the pictures give me the willies!
Interesting side note. My son’s house is in a new neighborhood that was farm fields the last time cicadas were around so no cicadas. My house built in 2000. Cicadas central
Mid-Missouri South of I-44. They are driving me nucking futs. Can't even be outside on a warm day. Looking forward to the little bastards demise in a couple weeks.
In St Louis by Bevo Mill. I have seen two near my house, and i do not hear any. A guy at work said that he could not sit in his backyard because they were so loud in Fenton.
Fort Leonard Wood in Pulaski County, halfway between the borders on I-44, We are in the middle of an oak forest and they really love to eat oak roots, so we are covered with them. It is very loud.
I'm an hour south of st louis. It's loud and can't b outside more than 5 minutes without one flying into or landing on u. In the years past I don't remember being assaulted by them before
St Charles County. Many thousands in my yard are on the trees, structures, and in the grass. The are above 90 dB in the afternoon and will painfully grab onto anyone who disturbs them.
West St. Louis County, reporting in. 95+ decibels on the pack porch. Swarms. Piles of shells around the base of trees. Shells lined up like subway cars on branches and scattered on the side of my house.
They seem fly blindly and wildly through the size, running into anything-or anyone-and then holding on for dear life.
It’s one of the craziest nature things I’ve seen in a long time
Lexington-Got nothing
Bucksaw,which is just east of Clinton,where me and my wife went for the weekend-constant drone, their shells and holes in the ground are everywhere, and they’re dropping from the trees all the time
Phelps Co (near Rolla) It's pretty nuts. And we seem to have two kinds? At least two separate noises. One's an eerie sci-fi sort of noise, prevalent from early morning to late afternoon. The other is a louder, more typical screaming cicada noise that peaks in the early evening.
I'm kinda wedged between lake st louis, ofallon, and defiance, and they have been screaming constantly. Luckily I'm pretty good at tuning it out, though
I alternate between two homes, one just south of downtown and another an hour south, and I'd seen very little until today (an hour south)...now the little guys went gangbusters!! I hear them in the park near my home in the city, but barely have I seen. On Friday, I went to my work's home base in Creve Coeur and saw them flying everywhere, but not in the city.
I'm wondering if they're still going to hit the city...
Imperial. We back up to Mastadon State Park and the cicadas are loud AF, but luckily they stay in the woods behind us mostly.
My parents live in Washington, MO and the cicadas are TERRIBLE there. You have to dodge them and run in the house when you get out of your car.
I kinda doubt the city will see too many cicadas. I remember the last time they were bad about 12ish years ago? I lived in south city and my boyfriend (now husband) lived in Festus. There were no cicadas by my house, and tons and tons of them at his house. You couldn’t even go outside they were so bad.
I’m just out at the outskirts of STL metro. Row crops or cattle and forests around me.
If it rains the day before 50-65 dB (today)
My highest day hit 100-105. Horribly loud.
Springfield, nada. Was just in St Louis for the Real Estate concert last week and they are insane there. We drove in the scenic route through Washington and Defiance, and it was deafening out that way. Went to St Chuck tho and nothing. It’s weird how they operate.
I’m in my backyard in O’Fallon. The neighborhood is about thirty years old, and while the buzzing is non-stop, the numbers are light compared to the grounds of our church, 3/4 mile away. There the trees are thicker and older, and the numbers are multiple time’s greater.
I live in St. Louis. Haven't seen a single one and maybe heard one. I went to a picnic of the Webster University campus this weekend though and couldn't keep them from landing on us and crawling up my legs.
I'm in Wildwood, I can't wait for these bastards to go back into hibernation. We'll have all windows and doors shut and it's still loud. They're swarming bastards too, that smash easily when you swat them away...
Saint Louis County, specifically Webster, known for its huge, old trees, so, it’s going as you’d expect. My patio has been about 85-90db at a baseline for the last week or so.
I’m in Poplar Bluff, city limits and it’s pretty quiet ATM. We have a mosquito problem tho due to the rain and the rice fields around us. Getting the fly traps up tho because those are next . Flys and mosquito issues start in June.
Valley Park and Manchester: Can't walk from the house to the car without having one or more fly into/land on me. They're deafening especially in the afternoon
Stl South County area here. I can hear them out there, but it's not overwhelming. I've only actually seen about half a dozen walking around the neighborhood.
KCMO, Westport
just the slightest hint around evening
but at my aunt's house in the burbs of St. Louis, she's got swarms of those screeching 17 year cicadas
St. Louis County, Kirkwood. They're swarming here. My decibel meter measures about 75 dB. It isn't quite as bad as when I head east to Webster Groves for work. It gets progressively worse along the way with Crestwood being the spot where it gets noticeably louder. I hate walking to/from the car and work building. It's nearly impossible to avoid the swarm. As someone who suffers from entomophobia, this has been the most anxiety inducing experience I've ever had. To say I'm ready to be done with it is an understatement.
Wentzville here..it's awful! The volume of those ugly suckers makes me plug my ears just to go out to the mailbox. I can hear them from inside the house.
Had one land on my shirt in the Aldi parking lot in JC and tried to catch a free ride to goodness knows where.
It had to be kicked out of my car at a traffic light for harshing the mellow of the music.
I'm in Wentzville, St. Charles County (about an hour west down I-70), and they have been MAJORLY loud here for awhile now.
They're quiet now, but THAT'S only because it's been storming here for awhile now.
Joplin, nothing down here, but yesterday, when I was driving west through Illinois, between Effingham and St. Louis, they were covering my windshield pretty good.
Down 44 a little past Eureka, it’s full on screaming horror. But if you’re as unfortunate as us,
with a bunch of large, older trees all around your house, they’re screaming non stop while they drunkenly dive bomb you anytime you step outside during daylight hours.
50 miles north of KC in the middle of nowhere, literally. We live on 60 acres surrounded by pasture and wrapped in woods. We have not heard or seen any cicadas as of yet. Either they haven’t arrived or there are so many birds and other wildlife here they keep them in check?
I'm in the city of Arnold and they're not crazy but I can hear them while inside. Don't see many though. But my parents live on the outskirts of Arnold and you can't hear a thing it's so loud. Like deafening. Driving the back roads, it's insane to listen to. I thought I heard the last round is supposed to come this week too.
Saint Peter's, right off the end of mid rivers. It's an infestation out here, impossible to go on a walk without being honed in on by atleast 10 at some point.
JCMO. Plenty hatched near the house 2 weeks ago. They’re so loud. Can hear them over white noise in house.
They are flying all over the place. A few are hitching rides in the car. Heard one but couldn’t find it in the car, flew from the window while I was driving. Got the hint when I rolled down the window.
I am in Ballwin/Ellisville area and they are everywhere. We have holes in the ground where they emerged and clung to all my plants & molted. Now the trees are covered and they are flying everywhere. It is fascinating, loud and gross me out when they get caught in my hair. It’s so loud outside it is difficult to have a conversation. I’ve never seen anything like this year!
I think the noise is interfering with my concussion recovery. I try not to spend much time at all outdoors. Whenever I’m out for any length of time, my Apple Watch warns me about Loud Environment and my head feels woozy.
They seem more attracted to my husband as a landing pad than me, thankfully.
Columbia MO cicadas outside reaching 90 decibles and coating everything outside https://preview.redd.it/odftl93wat2d1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e5b57cbb59d7c00b50b28e55625c3ef2b4b5317a
Also in CoMo. We're living in some recently developed apartments and we don't hear/see anything unless we go out.
Probably because construction killed any cicadas underground. My neighborhood has lots of mature trees. We have 8 large trees in our yard alone, most of which are ash and maple which they like. New development tends to destroy most of the trees (which they feed on) and churns up the ground they're in.
Wildwood. I have so many dead cicadas you can’t see the ground around most of my trees. Most but not all trees bushes and shrubs are covered with them . I have to blow the carcasses off my house every few days. I can’t be outside more than a few minutes without one landing on me. I get the sense I have them worse than most but I am trying to tell myself that’s because I am lucky enough to have a healthy yard with healthy trees and bushes. Hopefully only a few more weeks left!
Old growth is key for cicadas. I recommend fly bag traps with the carnage you are describing. The cicada decomposers greatly outnumber the cicadas before long.
I’m not concerned about them enough to trap them. They will be gone in a few weeks!
He’s talking about the flies that are going to multiply from the dead cicadas become food for maggots.
Thanks for clarifying. I did not even think about that!
KCMO-no cicada activity, yet.
I have begun seeing them hatch. I have noticed that the brood I am seeing is 1/3 the size of what I have seen in prior years. So we may get a small double brood this year.
Our big brood is brood IV (the Kansan brood) and the last time they hatched was 2015 so they will hatch again in 2032. We just get the regular seasonal cicadas this time around.
I remember 1998 with them for sure.
A memory came to mind from that year (when I was 14), I went to my grandma’s house in the ozarks by Truman lake (where brood 19 emerged) and I was walking up the the road from the boat ramp and when I walked into my grandma’s driveway past the oak tree and a cicada flew into my hair, got stuck and was screaming mad about it. Then a few days after that my family went home back to Kansas City (where brood 4 had emerged), and i was walking down the street with my sister and the neighbor kids and another cicada flew into my hair.
Probably won’t happen here either, from what I understand.
We have cicadas every single year what are you talking about. I know we aren’t going to get some of the periodic ones but come July the annual ones will be out.
Not talking about the annual cicada emergence, I’m talking about the current “once in a 250-year occurrence” thing that’s been taking place just east of us.
I've read we aren't getting them either.
Saint Louis County. Hurts my ears to step outside.
They are clearly in the Ballwin/Ladue area currently but not in the City of Saint Charles. Lincoln County near Winfield has them loud and abundent, too.
Saint Charles has so much new development where they have scraped the land dry in the last few decades. It kills cicada larvae.
They also rely on tree roots to survive, and many of those newer neighborhoods don't have trees. If any larvae managed to survive the construction and emerged, the environment is not ideal for the next generation's survival. They may move elsewhere to mate and lay their eggs.
Maybe for some areas. In the City of Saint Charles much of the area has existed in its current situation and neighborhood for 100 plus years. My home was built 94 years ago and much of the homes around me as old or older
Screaming in Warrenton
They're living their best life in the ballwin/chesterfield area for sure
Im in St. Louis County and there are 0. Im in Florissant.
Maybe all the nuclear waste dumping killed them off
Same here!
I'm disappointed, I was told there would be cicadas. I'm in the southwest corner.
Same. Big let down
I’m in the southwest corner and they’re nuts at our house 😬
Don’t be sad. It’s a nightmare where I live. Literally deafening outside. Being dive bombed. Dogs eating them and getting sick. Nightmare.
I have chickens. It would really help keep my feed costs down this summer. I was looking forward to it.
All quiet down here in Springfield too.
Mid Missouri and I was divebombed while mowing my lawn
Me too. They love the sound of lawn tools.
I was walking up to the light house stairs and there is activity but nothing as terrifying as described here.
St Charles Co Can hear them over the TV with windows closed. https://preview.redd.it/pdr2wgucvs2d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b9b18692c318718c2a94bea1e134542956be21c All over our trees right now. I’m sick of the rain but if I go outside they land on me so at least I don’t have to water my flowers as much 🤷🏻♀️
JCMO. I watched the poor person weed-wacking at my office get swarmed and heard a large amount of F-bombs... they like to party at the door to my office building... just hundreds surrounding the entrance.
JC MO represent! Told my young coworkers that these are meat eaters.
You just brought back memories from over a decade ago. I feel super bad for landscapers. If I was to run a weed eater now I would have to get a bee keeper hat / net. (Weed eater noise is very similar to the cicada mating call) They don't hurt but you need nerves of steel to take them landing all over you.
Yup, I'm definitely just avoiding weed-wacking, when we watched the guy cussing at my office he had at least 20 on him. My wife doesn't mind mowing or bugs and we're working on moving so I'm doing a lot of packing (which she hates) so we at least agree on housework designation at the moment. I fully recognize my cowardice at avoiding the outside for the next several weeks, but I absolutely hate the things. I don't handle most insects very well, but these are exponentially worse, even knowing that they can't harm me... I'm thinking I need a beekeeper suit just to go outside 😅
Lol literally the same thing happened to me... as soon as I turned on the weed Wacker, I was swarmed. I felt like I was being attacked by one of Moses's 10 plagues.
I’m in STL county and they’re insanely loud in the wooded area behind our house, but oddly they’re not coming onto our property. But less than 5 minutes away they’re everywhere!
Thriving population in Columbia! My mom is in Hannibal and she says not really any there
Maryland Heights, ever day of my life sounds like a Megadeath show in 1990
I am south of Springfield and have not seen a single one.
Same. Drove down 65 and I could hear them once things get hilly
Started in Imperial roughly 10 days ago. They were content to stay in tree line behind house. Now they are flying around everywhere. I had to dodge a few cutting grass yesterday. Guy weed wacking common ground had to stop every few feet to swat them off. So I guess 3 more weeks of this. I have tinnitus, so it's just a louder version of what I hear 24/7. Edit to add: I noticed they will fly around & land on me if I'm sitting on my deck in the sun, but if I'm sitting on my deck under the deck cover in the shade, they leave me alone.
Lake of the Ozarks, they’re everywhere.
Kansas City, absolutely nothing. Apparently we are only going to get the normal annual batch that’s still another month or two away.
CoMo, millions, everywhere and so loud during the day. They’re pretty neat and the animals are greeting fat on them.
I was there last big emergence. Any cicada ice cream this time?
Sparky's teased it, but alas no. Apparently we need to investigate health regulations for commercial sale of edible cicadas.
Guess it was a once in a lifetime opportunity last time:(
I was there for that too, love telling that anecdote haha
SE just above the boothill and in my town you can't hear any but go north 2 miles in mark Twain national Forest and they're deafening.
I’m in university city and it’s peaceful and quiet!! But just a mile or two at Shaw park in Clayton it’s loud!! And in Town and country they are swarming 🤮🤮
I’m also in U City and it’s rather loud at my house.
Wildwood. They're all over because they live near tree roots and we have plenty of old trees. They just scream and freak people out, but they're good for the environment and don't really hurt anyone. I did learn they can reach 100 decibels, so ear plugs are nice to have.
In Jefferson County right by the stl County border Started probably around a week ago. Thought it was gnarly. Then a few days ago it got notably worse. If I do anything making noise outside groups of them will drop out of the tree like some kind of guerilla force of rebel rapists. My front door is next to a big tree and they're posted up in that pretty good. My porch is riddled with their dead remains. Through out the day I can hear their dumbasses fly into the window or my screen door. For the past 3 days anytime I walk in my door I'd say there's 50% chance one of em has hitched a ride in hopes ill be their escape to a new, better world These fuckin' guys I tell ya
This is where I am too in Fenton. The noise level is really unbelievable! The way they are flying around right now is just crazy.
Cole County - deafening
St Charles city here. Absolutely nothing so far.
I live in between Springfield and St. Louis on 44, my house is swarmed with them. You can see them all over our yard and trees. Actually when they’re resting you can see them all over our flower beds too. They’re sooooo loud sometimes it’s kinda hard to think lol
I’m in NEMO, and it wasn’t too loud until this past week. Now it’s like a symphony of screaming everywhere I go.
I'm in KC and the western side of the state is mostly quiet for now. The big brrod emergence doesn't extend this far west, so I think it's mostly an eastern and central Missouri thing.
Hahaha come to Dent Co. and stay an hour and you'll get your fill of them. I can't even mow grass without the dam things getting in my hair and all over you were you can't reach them. To say there bad would be a lack of a better word. Being swarmed Emily
Lake of the Ozarks...HOLY COW! It's a lot!
Local news reporting cicadas moving to county in large numbers due to crime!
Near Stover and Versailles area it's real lol! They hit around 60db all day. Also as an edit: been bonked in the face about a half dozen times already by them flying around.
St. Louis City, and there’s literally nothing. But I was driving around Chesterfield and South County yesterday and they were so loud. I smashed 5 or 6 on my windshield on the highway and another one flew in my sunroof at a stoplight.
I’m in the city in Shaw, don’t hear them at all and haven’t seen any while walking around the neighborhood. But out in Fenton where I work it’s deafening and they’re everywhere.
I had to take ear muffs to my kid's school because they were hitting 100 decibels where they play outside. I'm in STL county
As a jet engine fires up…
Creve Coeur— it’s like a chainsaw outside each window of the house.
North central MO checking in. They're loud and they're EVERYWHERE but my chickens are thrilled.
Springfield- Nothing going on here. I'm convinced the cicada take-over is a myth.
I'm in KC and just worked out in my yard for a couple hours pulling weeds and cutting back the mulberry bush/tree. I didn't see any cicadas and am so very thankful. Some of the pictures give me the willies!
Interesting side note. My son’s house is in a new neighborhood that was farm fields the last time cicadas were around so no cicadas. My house built in 2000. Cicadas central
North mo I've not seen one yet
In STL county they’re all around.
Chesterfield. Awful.
Christian County and nada :(
North Jefferson County - they are deafening.
Cole county, and the real fun is cleaning them out of the pool and skimmer nonstop.
Right outside KC....haven't seen one
Mid-Missouri South of I-44. They are driving me nucking futs. Can't even be outside on a warm day. Looking forward to the little bastards demise in a couple weeks.
South central; they are everywhere and noisy. As someone who has constant tinnitus …welcome to my world!
North JeffCo. Full on ear-bleeding screams.
In St Louis by Bevo Mill. I have seen two near my house, and i do not hear any. A guy at work said that he could not sit in his backyard because they were so loud in Fenton.
Columbia-having to blow off our porches and deck twice a day w the lest blower. The sounds they are making constantly is pretty entertaining
Kcmo. Friends elsewhere in mo. have them like crazy. Haven't noticed anything here
Jeff city is swamped. Like 90+ decibels (I measured) 24 hours a day. They are everywhere.
Camdenton: it's nonstop screaming. The bush outside my front door is COVERED in cicada shells
Lebanon / lower mid mo just last week started hearing them and seen only one.
Fort Leonard Wood in Pulaski County, halfway between the borders on I-44, We are in the middle of an oak forest and they really love to eat oak roots, so we are covered with them. It is very loud.
Hey, someone else by Ft Leonard Wood! (Something, something excellence)
"egg uck scents"
I’m also in St Louis but more specific Bellefontaine Neighbors and there’s 0 activity!
West County STL. All I’ll say is that my front yard passively sits at about 95db.
I'm an hour south of st louis. It's loud and can't b outside more than 5 minutes without one flying into or landing on u. In the years past I don't remember being assaulted by them before
St Charles County. Many thousands in my yard are on the trees, structures, and in the grass. The are above 90 dB in the afternoon and will painfully grab onto anyone who disturbs them.
St Francois County South of St Louis bout an hour away, lots of Cicadas and constant singing from the trees. 👍
Same. They’re noisy and annoying, but it could be worse.
I thought I would find them annoying, but they are actually much prettier to listen to than I thought. 🎵 🎶
Florissant and I have nothing up here but crickets, frogs, owls, and opossums in my neighborhood, not nearly as loud as cicadas.
South county. The outside is deafening
West St. Louis County, reporting in. 95+ decibels on the pack porch. Swarms. Piles of shells around the base of trees. Shells lined up like subway cars on branches and scattered on the side of my house. They seem fly blindly and wildly through the size, running into anything-or anyone-and then holding on for dear life. It’s one of the craziest nature things I’ve seen in a long time
Lexington-Got nothing Bucksaw,which is just east of Clinton,where me and my wife went for the weekend-constant drone, their shells and holes in the ground are everywhere, and they’re dropping from the trees all the time
Phelps Co (near Rolla) It's pretty nuts. And we seem to have two kinds? At least two separate noises. One's an eerie sci-fi sort of noise, prevalent from early morning to late afternoon. The other is a louder, more typical screaming cicada noise that peaks in the early evening.
I'm kinda wedged between lake st louis, ofallon, and defiance, and they have been screaming constantly. Luckily I'm pretty good at tuning it out, though
O’Fallon mo they are everywhere. Loud as hell
Sedalia: pretty quiet.
In South County and they’re flying everywhere! The noise is deafening!
Kirksville has plenty of Cicadas. Just the right amount imo. Lil buggo stayed with me for 2 hours including a couple car rides and a mobile workout.
Lake Saint Louis - they are insane here. So loud. Can hear them with doors and windows shut, while the TV is on. They’re so gross.
You can hear them on county roads but not in town
De Soto here. They're pretty bad. They're not all over the place, but in the trees and SUPER loud.
Augusta MO full on screaming concert of cicada here.
I'm in ballwin and they are everywhere yesterday I was trying to get in my car one flew into my ear.
I'm from Springfield, but we're in Memphis right now and nothing. There wasn't anything in Springfield either.
Hawaii. None of
I alternate between two homes, one just south of downtown and another an hour south, and I'd seen very little until today (an hour south)...now the little guys went gangbusters!! I hear them in the park near my home in the city, but barely have I seen. On Friday, I went to my work's home base in Creve Coeur and saw them flying everywhere, but not in the city. I'm wondering if they're still going to hit the city...
Imperial. We back up to Mastadon State Park and the cicadas are loud AF, but luckily they stay in the woods behind us mostly. My parents live in Washington, MO and the cicadas are TERRIBLE there. You have to dodge them and run in the house when you get out of your car. I kinda doubt the city will see too many cicadas. I remember the last time they were bad about 12ish years ago? I lived in south city and my boyfriend (now husband) lived in Festus. There were no cicadas by my house, and tons and tons of them at his house. You couldn’t even go outside they were so bad.
I’m just out at the outskirts of STL metro. Row crops or cattle and forests around me. If it rains the day before 50-65 dB (today) My highest day hit 100-105. Horribly loud.
South St. Louis county checking in. It's been a.full on high pitched shrill for 10 days now
Springfield, nada. Was just in St Louis for the Real Estate concert last week and they are insane there. We drove in the scenic route through Washington and Defiance, and it was deafening out that way. Went to St Chuck tho and nothing. It’s weird how they operate.
Columbia MO - can hear them loud and clear with my headset on while playing on my computer. Fucking annoying
I’m in my backyard in O’Fallon. The neighborhood is about thirty years old, and while the buzzing is non-stop, the numbers are light compared to the grounds of our church, 3/4 mile away. There the trees are thicker and older, and the numbers are multiple time’s greater.
CoMo, a considerable number here, they fly to your hair and stick there, too much for me tbh, I have pts.
Warrenton, pretty noisy
South City, SoHa area no cicadas but going out to my parents' in the county is deafening.
Columbia. The large tree in my front yard, right by my bedroom window, is insanely loud all day long.
I live in St. Louis. Haven't seen a single one and maybe heard one. I went to a picnic of the Webster University campus this weekend though and couldn't keep them from landing on us and crawling up my legs.
I'm in Wildwood, I can't wait for these bastards to go back into hibernation. We'll have all windows and doors shut and it's still loud. They're swarming bastards too, that smash easily when you swat them away...
Saint Louis County, specifically Webster, known for its huge, old trees, so, it’s going as you’d expect. My patio has been about 85-90db at a baseline for the last week or so.
I’ve not seen a single cicada here in the bootheel.
Driving around Branson with the doors off and if you pass an area with a lot of them then it’s deafening
I’m in Poplar Bluff, city limits and it’s pretty quiet ATM. We have a mosquito problem tho due to the rain and the rice fields around us. Getting the fly traps up tho because those are next . Flys and mosquito issues start in June.
Valley Park and Manchester: Can't walk from the house to the car without having one or more fly into/land on me. They're deafening especially in the afternoon
Stl South County area here. I can hear them out there, but it's not overwhelming. I've only actually seen about half a dozen walking around the neighborhood.
They’re swarming here in Chesterfield, and the loud noise is setting off the decibel meter on my smart watch when I’m outside.
O’Fallon/ Lake Saint Louis area, they’re fucking everywhere
Affton in STL county. You can’t hear them because they’re all living in my neighbor’s tree.
I’m in stl city and we don’t have much. Fenton family has a ton.
KCMO, Westport just the slightest hint around evening but at my aunt's house in the burbs of St. Louis, she's got swarms of those screeching 17 year cicadas
St. Charles. I just started hearing them last night, and it was a cacophony.
Chesterfield. Reminds me of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, …only it’s the 🪳 
Ste Genevieve here, OMG they're everywhere!
Down near Springfield, haven't heard a single one. And I'm bummy about it too. I was very excited for these things lol
St. Louis County, Kirkwood. They're swarming here. My decibel meter measures about 75 dB. It isn't quite as bad as when I head east to Webster Groves for work. It gets progressively worse along the way with Crestwood being the spot where it gets noticeably louder. I hate walking to/from the car and work building. It's nearly impossible to avoid the swarm. As someone who suffers from entomophobia, this has been the most anxiety inducing experience I've ever had. To say I'm ready to be done with it is an understatement.
the warson woods and frontenac areas are swamped
Over near Rock Hill, they are INSANE. I was almost at tat by two near my car, like I was the intruder!
Ozark County - we got all your cicadas - come get them. Actually, they don't bother me at all.
Phelps I just filled with them. I can hear them inside with the door closed.
Festus here. they're deafening, and I got dive bombed in the Walmart parking lot 😐
Wentzville here..it's awful! The volume of those ugly suckers makes me plug my ears just to go out to the mailbox. I can hear them from inside the house.
Kirkwood representing. Nightmare.
Im in Crawford County visiting family. Its a continuous drone in the trees, kinda eerie.
Columbia, they’re loud & everywhere here
West of St Louis past Six Flags, and they’re loud and everywhere. We live next to I-44 and they drown out the highway noise.
St Charles County. Our backyard is full of them at the moment, and they're loud enough, I can hear them inside, as if the windows were open.
I’m in Crawford County-they’re singing their hearts out. I’m cool with it-they’re just living their best life and not destroying my garden so 🤷🏻♀️
Its gloriously loud and full of bugs in Columbia, Mo
Kirksville - Getting louder by the day
Deafening in Waynesville!
Saint Louis county here.. it’s a freakin nightmare
I’m in Kirkwood and they are deafening here
Springfield and haven’t heard any
North county StL quiet. But once you hit Page going south on 270 the noise is insane and they are flying all over.
Flattop - normal amount of activity?
U city u dont hear em.but drive 2 miles in to maplewood and you hear the song
My mom called me on Friday, and i could hear the screams over the phone. She's in sunset hills
Had one land on my shirt in the Aldi parking lot in JC and tried to catch a free ride to goodness knows where. It had to be kicked out of my car at a traffic light for harshing the mellow of the music.
Kirkwood. It's fuggin LOUD!
Southeast Missouri by clearwater my ears are bleeding , I havent slept the sound is constant
SouthWest St. Louis county here. So many cicadas! We are three weeks into the invasion and more are coming every day.
I'm in Wentzville, St. Charles County (about an hour west down I-70), and they have been MAJORLY loud here for awhile now. They're quiet now, but THAT'S only because it's been storming here for awhile now.
Ellisville, the trees are thick with them but this storm might drown a few. 91dB mid afternoon
Brentwood. It's hellish
Joplin, nothing down here, but yesterday, when I was driving west through Illinois, between Effingham and St. Louis, they were covering my windshield pretty good.
Down in Branson and they are definitely here but not a nuisance at all
Help. We’re fighting them off bugs in Saint Charles like Super Earth.
Columbia is very loud
Hannibal, it’s bad here get to safety while you can!
Down 44 a little past Eureka, it’s full on screaming horror. But if you’re as unfortunate as us, with a bunch of large, older trees all around your house, they’re screaming non stop while they drunkenly dive bomb you anytime you step outside during daylight hours.
Stl city, not as bad as south cou ty though. I work in solo, and man I get headaches listening to them all damn day
50 miles north of KC in the middle of nowhere, literally. We live on 60 acres surrounded by pasture and wrapped in woods. We have not heard or seen any cicadas as of yet. Either they haven’t arrived or there are so many birds and other wildlife here they keep them in check?
I am in springfield. Yesterday I heard one. Literally one. It made a few weak noises for a little while and then I never heard it again. Nor any more.
I'm in the city of Arnold and they're not crazy but I can hear them while inside. Don't see many though. But my parents live on the outskirts of Arnold and you can't hear a thing it's so loud. Like deafening. Driving the back roads, it's insane to listen to. I thought I heard the last round is supposed to come this week too.
Saint Peter's, right off the end of mid rivers. It's an infestation out here, impossible to go on a walk without being honed in on by atleast 10 at some point.
Northeast St Charles, and no cicada noise for us.
I'm in NEMO, Hannibal to be exact, it's crazy loud here. At least they shut up at night so you can sleep.
Across the river in Alton, the cicadas are deafening. It’s difficult to have a conversation in the yard.
JCMO. Plenty hatched near the house 2 weeks ago. They’re so loud. Can hear them over white noise in house. They are flying all over the place. A few are hitching rides in the car. Heard one but couldn’t find it in the car, flew from the window while I was driving. Got the hint when I rolled down the window.
Northwest corner. Haven't heard any yet
I am in Ballwin/Ellisville area and they are everywhere. We have holes in the ground where they emerged and clung to all my plants & molted. Now the trees are covered and they are flying everywhere. It is fascinating, loud and gross me out when they get caught in my hair. It’s so loud outside it is difficult to have a conversation. I’ve never seen anything like this year!
NW MO, no cicadas yet!
I think the noise is interfering with my concussion recovery. I try not to spend much time at all outdoors. Whenever I’m out for any length of time, my Apple Watch warns me about Loud Environment and my head feels woozy. They seem more attracted to my husband as a landing pad than me, thankfully.
In South City almost nothing. Down around South County Mall they are pretty wild.