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| Cicadas; I think I hear them | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 7 2008, 09:12 AM (292 Views) | |
| big al | Aug 7 2008, 09:12 AM Post #1 |
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Bull-Carp
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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.![]() Image from U of Michigan website: Periodical Cicada Page Has anyone else noticed their emergence? Big Al |
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Location: Western PA "jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen." -bachophile | |
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| Optimistic | Aug 7 2008, 09:18 AM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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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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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| JBryan | Aug 7 2008, 09:22 AM Post #3 |
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I am the grey one
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I found a big ass spider on my kitchen floor the other morning. I thought it was a little dirt pile my wife swept up until it started walking. I almost stepped on it in my bare feet and that sucker was almost too big to drop a water tumbler over when I escorted it from the premises. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| Copper | Aug 7 2008, 09:23 AM Post #4 |
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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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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| PattyP | Aug 7 2008, 09:46 AM Post #5 |
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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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A tired dog is a good dog. "Dogs' lives are too short...their only fault, really." A.S. Turnbull | |
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| Mikhailoh | Aug 7 2008, 10:24 AM Post #6 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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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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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| blondie | Aug 7 2008, 10:54 AM Post #7 |
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Bull-Carp
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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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| Luke's Dad | Aug 7 2008, 11:36 AM Post #8 |
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Emperor Pengin
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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. |
| The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it. | |
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| Optimistic | Aug 7 2008, 08:06 PM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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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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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| Mikhailoh | Aug 7 2008, 08:13 PM Post #10 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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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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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Frank_W | Aug 7 2008, 08:14 PM Post #11 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Yep. Here, too... The damn tree-frogs are the WORST!! |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Mikhailoh | Aug 7 2008, 08:17 PM Post #12 |
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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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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Frank_W | Aug 7 2008, 08:25 PM Post #13 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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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. :angry:
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Luke's Dad | Aug 7 2008, 08:34 PM Post #14 |
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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 | Aug 7 2008, 08:48 PM Post #15 |
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Bull-Carp
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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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| Luke's Dad | Aug 8 2008, 05:25 AM Post #16 |
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Emperor Pengin
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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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| Frank_W | Aug 8 2008, 05:26 AM Post #17 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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HOLY CRAP!!!! KILL THEM!!! KILL THEM ALL!!!!
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Luke's Dad | Aug 8 2008, 05:29 AM Post #18 |
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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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| Frank_W | Aug 8 2008, 05:30 AM Post #19 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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I'd stomp its brains out. |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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