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Cicadas; I think I hear them
Topic Started: Aug 7 2008, 09:12 AM (292 Views)
big al
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While I've been walking outdoors this last week, I believe I have heard the song of the cicadas, or 17-year locusts as they're popularly called around here, coming from the trees. I've only spotted one shell and haven't seen a live one yet, but this is the year for Brood XIV to emerge.

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Image from U of Michigan website: Periodical Cicada Page

Has anyone else noticed their emergence?

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I saw a huge cicada-looking creature the other night. I haven't checked if we're due for any appearances around here this year.

My college graduation had to be moved to indoors because of a predicted cicada plague. They ended up coming and going the weeks before graduation. They used to drop from the trees as people were walking to classes. Hearing screams was a daily occurrence. ^_^
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We have them here in northern VA - big time.

The 17 year variety were here a couple years ago, these are the annuals we are getting now.

They look about the same to me, and they are really loud. But there are maybe a few dozen in my trees as opposed to a few hundred (deafening) during the 17 year visit.
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They’re out there. I haven't seen any, but I hear them in the evening. They aren't making the deafening buzz like they do some years, but they're here.

When I was a kid I used to think the sound they made was electricity pulsating through the power lines when somebody turned on a light switch. :lol:



edit: As much as I like hearing them I know they herald the end of summer. :(

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We had them bad earlier in the summer. I had piles of their shells aorund my trees two inches deep and SUCH A RACKET!!!
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Heh. I'm still hearing cicadas & I left Alabama in '95.

Some critters I'll never forget.
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Yep Northern VA's got them right now. I haven't seen them but I've heard them.

Pepper munched on a few while we were camping in PA.
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Now I hear them. I had thought the past week or so that the summer "heat bugs" had been getting louder.

But no, it's those stinkin' cicadas. <_<
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We have so much wildlife in the trees here in the woods, you hardly notice when teh cicadas stop and the tree frogs, crickets, whatchamacalits and the owls take over. What a cacaphony!
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Mikhailoh
Aug 7 2008, 11:13 PM
We have so much wildlife in the trees here in the woods, you hardly notice when teh cicadas stop and the tree frogs, crickets, whatchamacalits and the owls take over. What a cacaphony!

Yep. Here, too... The damn tree-frogs are the WORST!!
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We never had them until three or four years ago. They intrigued me so much I looked up a site online that told me what they were.. had recordings of their sound.
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Pffft.... I hate the little f'ckers... I was out on my riding mower one year, and I had to keep snatching them off of my face, slapping them out of my hair, and they were sticking all over my back, getting down my shirt... G'AHHHHHHHHH!!!

The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst. The worst.

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I find it rather peaceful and soothing. Of course we don't have as many frogs in these parts since the snakehead fish arrived.

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blondie
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Gah!
That is u-g-l-y.
Had to read about it.
Never heard of this before.

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One of the more interesting, and scary, things about them is that they can and will travel across land. They've been known to completely kill off entire ponds and small lakes, then slither across the land to the next small pond or lake. On the way, they'll eat frogs, birds, rodents, etc... They'll bite humans if threatened, and can survive out of the water for several days. It's a huge problem around here. There's lots of small private ponds and lakes. They'll think they've finally got them isolated and they'll pop up fifteen miles outside of the quarantine area.
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HOLY CRAP!!!! KILL THEM!!! KILL THEM ALL!!!! :sword:
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You do not want to be out fishing, go to some bushes to answer nature's call, and find one of those things slithering out from the bushes midstream.
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Aug 8 2008, 08:29 AM
You do not want to be out fishing, go to some bushes to answer nature's call, and find one of those things slithering out from the bushes midstream.

I'd stomp its brains out.
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