A general reminderโperiodic cicadas pose no threat to anyone and their plant damage is limited to nipping off the ends of twigs. Please do not hose them with pesticide. They are slow and clumsy and confused and only want to make friends with other cicadas and eventually die of sexual exhaustion.
Yes, the screaming is a lot, but theyโve been extremely quiet neighbors for thirteen years, cut them some slack as they go through the most fraught time of their lives.
Nothing gives the same kind of random ego boost like managing to finally clean up your home and making it nice. Like ooh look at me, I'm living like people do, I made myself iced tea and I am eating my snack from a real plate. I got floors and shit.
- Nick, what was going through your mind when you were crawling around on the floor with a camp bed strapped to your back?
- I felt like a wood louse that had inverted itself and just couldn't get back.