CICADAS WILL MISS OUR REGION THIS YEAR - Take A Breath Of Relief

(03/28/2004)
If you had a few tense thoughts about the high-pitched, nagging sound of cicadas returning to the area.

You can take a breath of relief.

We've already had our season with the insects.

The noisy insects will emerge this May, filling forests in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia and more than a dozen states. Then they'll disappear underground for another 17 years.

Cicadas will appear from mid-May to June in Berkeley, Grant, Hardy, Mineral, Hampshire, Morgan and Jefferson counties.