Cicadastock '04
 

Ugh, I hate the damn things, 12 were found today locally, all eaten by a chipmunk apparently. I am not looking forward to them.

Only 12 in the whole city? And one chipmunk ate all of them? Has the chipmunk been reached for comment?

no i didn't hear it, but i suppose some just came out early and this chipmunk ate them*

*i heard this from a very unreliable source.

anyways, will you guys stay in your house as much as i plan to do, when they hit big time?

As long as they don't bring those 30 hornets with them, I wouldn't be too concerned.

touche

Yea I hear we get them here in Kentucky too. I saw a swarm of them in Texas once, but I hear the swarms of these things make southern swarms look like nothing. Some were spotted already up there? If the soil was already warm enough up there they must be coming soon.

I hear them all the time, but rarely see them...

Im in Central Jersey, whats the cut off line?

Your back porch. :D

what the hell are they?

Seriously? I hate bugs, and I hate a thousand of anything. :(

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That seems like a pretty good policy.

Everyone around here (Maryland) says that we'll just be overwhelmed by the little bastards ina few weeks. 17 years ago, I was living in the Midwest, and they were hardly an issue at all.

I agree with the former, but you might rethink the latter. Think dollars. :)

Naked breasts?

Nope, I plan on letting the cats out to play with the little annoying bastards.

But I don't expect there to be many on the east side our brood is supposed to come in 4 years.

Keep in mind Cats can get sick from eating them.

They reportedly started coming out in the Chevy Chase, MD area Sunday. I'm not looking forward to the prospects of having to play softball in an OF crawling with the buggers.

Most of the Maryland Area swarm is supposed to be out by the end of the week allegedly.

Suicane, you can commemorate the event with a t-shirt.

I was living in Olney, Maryland 17 years ago when the cicadas came. It was awesome.

They're really slow and stupid bugs. You can catch them out of the air with your bare hands. My buddies and I spent most of the summer beating them out of the trees with lacrosse sticks and then making ritual sacrifices of them (merely pulling the wings off is just too easy). One friend of mine had a gallon-sized ziploc bag full of cicada heads. My brother favored pinning them to a block of wood with needles and dissecting them alive or burning off extremeties one at a time. I enjoyed hitting them out of the air with a wiffleball bat against a brick wall.

Good times!

How old were you?

Maybe we should import some giant hornets to take care of the cicadas?

I was 13 at the time. I'm older and wiser now. I'd probably be a lot more efficient at tormenting cicadas with 17 years of experience and modern technology at my disposal.

Long story short.

17 years ago, for a Senior Prank in High School, me and a couple of buddies went walking through the woods one day collecting mega amounts of these thngs. The swarms were absurdly large and we collected enough in a couple of hours to fill 2 lawn-sized trash bags full of squirming bugs.

About 15 minutes before the bell for the first class the next day, we let them loose in the "main intersection" of our school. Which was packed with folks. Lots of folks. With heavily sprayed hair (as was the style at the time).

The screaming could be heard for miles...

What an evil plan. Somebody tell Fritz: this is what an evil plan should be! Excellent work!

You are the wind beneath my wings...

there's a duck that lives outside of my apartment that quacks every morning at exactly 6 am. Far more annoying than a bug.

I used to live in a house that had carpenter bees living in the woodwork, which wasn't so bad except for the woodpecker.

The cat we had at the time of the last bunch never ate them, he just liked playing with them. The dog was the one who would eat them and it didn't seem to affect her any.

Man, I am so not gonna enjoy this.
I don't think I'd enjoy 1000 breasts, it'd be overwhelming, im clumsy enough around 2.

Cool then... I had heard that cats and dogs had problems with the hard exoskeleton.

Ping Shorty.... this could work well for you.

I've never in my entire life enjoyed better fishing than during a heavy cicada season. Everytime anything hit the water, insect or hook, it was snatched up. Craziness. If you fish, enjoy it.

Scott, in this day and age we would easily be caught bringing big bags in. Bookbags are the only solution and will require more ppl. I hate bugs though, so I dunno.

If you like that Senior Prank, here's another....

Get a pickup truck. Get a bunch of old spare tires from the dump. You need about 30.

Ring the flagpole with the tires by:

1. Using a ladder
2. (tougher and more time-consuming method) Tie them on to the rope that you use for the flag, pull them up and over the top and let them fall to the ground.

Guaranteed that it'll take the Administration 3-5 days for them to figure out how to get the tires from around the flagpole. It's not original, but very funny. Did it back in 1988 and it took them a week to get the tires off. With a chainsaw. :)

That happened at our high school in the late 80s, too.

Saaayyyy, Blackadar....you weren't a serial flagpole tirer, were you?

C'mon Easy, these bugs are supposed to get to 100 decibles. Thats got to kick the crap out of your duck.

Can't do tires anymore because there is security at the school at all times.

Ran into (literally) my first batch today... was out on tra trails, and they kept clunking into my truck. Kinda weird - these things don't seem to have typical bug-like qualities. They just buzz around until they bang into something, then change direction. Ugh.

Like I said, they're slow and stupid. A creative mind could have hours of fun with them...

I wonder if they like peanut butter.

You complete me.

:D

Note that they are periodical, not formidable and certainly not colossal.

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Cicadas

Everything in that article is what I've heard- they will come at 64.4 degrees and there will be so many that you can't walk outside to your car without being drilled by a few of them.

NASTY