More and more reports are coming in about seeing the pre exit holes made by the seventeen year periodical cicada.

Remember, when you start seeing these holes created by the cicada, they are due to emerge about two weeks later. It will take them a few days to recover from emerging from the ground after seventeen years.
You would be a little slow too if you awoke after sleeping that long. If you remember from a previous show where I mentioned that the sound they make, that high pitched sound, it used to attract a mate.

It’s interesting when visiting Brett Merritt at G and G Nurseries up on route 2 north of Huntington a few days ago; he mentioned an experience he had with the cicada 17 years ago. He and his brothers were helping their dad build his house on the river. They had two circular hand saws, one housing made of plastic and the other a more expensive saw with a metal housing. They quickly realized that the saw with the metal housing had a higher pitch and attracted so many cicada that they had to turn it off and run for cover. The plastic housing saw evidently had a different sound and they could continue their carpentry work without being swarmed by flying cicada. I’ve heard the same story with a weed eater.