OMG, are these Cicadas?

[hotinhawaii]

In Baltimore we had a brood of 13 year cicadas that was ENORMOUS! You could see kids on their way to school covering their heads to dodge the large critters. Every deciduous tree branch tip for hundreds of miles around died after the cicadas bored into them to lay eggs. Every area of the ground that contained a tree 13 years before was covered with little holes during the week the cicadas emerged. I found the whole thing fascinating!