I'm in the Blue Ridge foothills in South Carolina. Haven't seen any little buggies yet. Hope they're buried somewhere else. The thought of millions of bugs popping out of the ground near me is enough to send me to California!!!
Good question. I personally know they can go 3 feet easy because of fence posts I dug. I believe they can go further but you’ll find them near trees. They feed on xylem, which is basically tree root sap.
Thanks for the reply. I live in the middle of some acreage and I do not have trees around my house so I didn't have to tolerate them but I could hear them at the neighbors