Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 14:43:04 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Rob (Robert) Hilton" Subject: Re: Cicada? In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000518141716.00a51db0@wvu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 02:21 PM 5/18/00 -0400, you wrote: >Ospreyers interested in Cicadas: > I am not an entomologist or an expert of any kind. I do know that >the outbreaks are very localized. We had an awesome outbreak last summer >here in Morgantown but when I asked people in Frostburg (just 60 miles East >of me) if they were seeing Cicadas they had seen none. The big emergence last year was also just south of Petersburg, W. Va. > I also heard Cicadas singing on Sunday at Hughes Hollow in >Montgomery County (for some reason I thought it was a leftover from last >year ... forgetting where I was ... but now it appears as though there is >an outbreak in Central MD). This year's emergence in central Maryland appears to be some of the 17 year cicadas becoming 13 year cicadas. Rob Hilton robert@csa.com Bethesda, Md ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================