Cicadas in McLean: We're Waiting for Godot

It’s been plenty warm enough for plenty long enough—so if you haven’t seen cicadas in your neighborhood in McLean yet, you just may be waiting for a cicada named Godot.*

“So far, Brood II sightings of the 17-year periodical cicada have been mostly south of Washington, with a few scattered reports to the north,” The Capital Weather Gang reported recently.

If you’re interested in seeing them, you have a few more weeks still to drive down I-95 South into Lake Ridge, Woodbridge and west toward Manassas. There are some near Centreville, or you could venture into St. Mary’s and Calvert counties in Maryland.

Feel like you’re missing out, but don’t feel like getting in the car? Here’s what our sister Patch sites down south and west of us have reported:

• Cicada Sounds 2013: The Whirring Brood
• Cicadas 2013: They're Everywhere! 
• Cicada 2013: Share Your Pictures

And here are a few additional resources for your family and friends who are in the midst of what some have called the swarmageddon: 

• Pet Safety During Cicada Season
• What to Do with Dead Cicadas
• The Art of Eating Cicadas
• 7 Reasons to Embrace the Cicada Swarmageddon 

Are you relieved? Are you disappointed? Let us know in the comments. 

* Remember the play "Waiting for Godot" from your high school literature classes? It was written in the 1950s by Samuel Beckett and focused on two men who were waiting for Godot. Godot never showed up.