This year will be a peak year for Cicadas (aka Katydids) with a 17 year period hatch starting in May. Oklahoma is not listed as one of the sites, but I know that in western Oklahoma (Foss, etc) there were a lot of Cicadas when I visited my grandparents.
Read Cicada Fiestas: Top Places to Bug Out for a guide to hot spots.
I wonder how central Oklahoma, where I now live, will fare. I hope, for a sense of history, that we have a good hatch.
Of course, they will dig up the ground coming out, but some people pay to have their lawn aerated. This is free!
I’ve my last 50 some summers gardening in Corpus Christi and Austin, Texas, Las Vegas, Nevada and Enid, Oklahoma. Though I have yet to see a summer without be reminded of my childhood summer friends, the cicada, their songs and their tell-tale holes they leave in the soil. In Texas the cicadas are greener than the Brood X with a capital W on their thorax. They make a roaring whirring sound. Although smaller, the inch and a half little guys in Nevada compensate for their size in numbers. Their sounds are more like a high-pitched whiz-buzz.
So, though the prediction of their appearance is east of the Mississippi, I’d like to think that we’ll have sightings in Oklahoma as well. What do you think?