Ah, cicadas!
I'm an old man, and I can remember when I was a kid (1953??) Northern VA was almost all rural, unlike the present when almost everything has been paved over with houses, roads and parking lots. There are a lot fewer now than then.
My main memory from that time was visiting an old man (my current age?) who would sit on his patio and just pluck them out of the air, dropping them into a large glass jar. They were dense! Now, there's just a lot of them around, but you can still see the sun!