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Post by AntiArbitrator on Apr 12, 2013 22:21:43 GMT -5
Those of us who live on the east coast will soon be invaded by billions of cicadas. Scientists and entomologists are fascinated but others hate them. I am one of the latter. Last time they were here, people were running into traffic to get away from them. Those insects fly right into people and they are extremely noisy. Think "swarm of locusts".
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2013 23:07:33 GMT -5
I will have a heart attack if that happens...
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Post by mazeman on Apr 13, 2013 9:08:38 GMT -5
Ahhhh Angel... Chicago too has felt the wrath of the cicada.   Every seven years... they hatch from nests in the ground and deep in trees. What follows is a summer like a biblical swarm.  You can look up recipes for cicadas. I actually ate one once... is had been battered and fried in garlic and butter. Granted, I had a few drinks before I could convince myself to do it... |
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Apr 13, 2013 13:31:34 GMT -5
^^^  Friends would need to trick me into eating one. A blind taste test preceded by a few drinks might work. |
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Post by power321 on Apr 16, 2013 7:12:23 GMT -5
lol i like those weird sounds! i remember hearing a few years back
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Post by avp60685 on Apr 16, 2013 7:37:24 GMT -5
I know that after they die, they make a strange crunching sound under your feet! I am not sure how the kids at church are going to feel about seeing them, they may want to catch one and keep it for a pet for awhile, oh mercy!
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Post by spoonieluv247 on Apr 24, 2013 6:15:54 GMT -5
i remember one bad year growing up... those bastids would lock onto the screen door and hang on like they were anchored.... of course, flicking them off through the screen was fun.... and watching them land on the deck of our house and lay still.... then the fun part! CRUCHING THEM LIKE THE BUGS THEY ARE!!!!  or more accurately, the bugs they were...  |
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Apr 24, 2013 10:15:33 GMT -5
Spoonie, plucking them might be fun, but stepping on them would give me the willies. If they cling to my screen door, I will be trapped inside the house until some brave soul removes them.
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Post by melissa1978 on May 7, 2013 0:39:53 GMT -5
Those little shits are big and ugly, please don't grace Long Island NY with your presence you noisy ugly things. I'm not a fan of bugs they need to stay outside
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Post by KyleEl on May 7, 2013 14:25:45 GMT -5
It was only two years ago that I was wondering what that loud equipment was that I was hearing all over town. I saw dead bugs everywhere.
I think this was the Friday before Memorial Day because I did the reverse of my usual routine in order to see a new bridge that was going up. As it turned out I couldn't see the bridge. So I was in the town with the noisy bugs in the afternoon, not the morning.
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Post by melissa1978 on Jun 3, 2013 22:28:13 GMT -5
We never got them here on Long Island thank goodness, it was even said somewhere they would not be bad here on Long Island .
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Post by AntiArbitrator on Jun 24, 2013 18:31:29 GMT -5
When I saw Melissa's comment, I checked to see what was happening in my area. Supposedly, when the below ground temperature reached 64o, the bug-eyed critters would surface.
We are into our third heatwave and they have not appeared. I think either we were spared or the entymologist erred.
Answer to probable question: I have no idea at how they arrived at an exact number like 64 degrees.
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