I was in DC in 2004 when they came out last time. I don’t recall any concerns about agriculture and nothing in our yard got damaged. You just had to clean up a

I was in DC in 2004 when they came out last time. I don’t recall any concerns about agriculture and nothing in our yard got damaged. You just had to clean up a lot of dead cicadas. I think most of their feeding is done underground and they come out to mate and then die. It’s not like locusts that eat everything in their way. Birds were super happy though. It stlll impresses me that they are better at keeping track of years than I am.