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Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
A large brood of 17-year periodical cicadas (genus Magicicada) is expected to emerge this spring across portions of eastern North America. These insects spend up to 13 or 17 years of their life cycle living underground. Then, they emerge in large numbers to breed. While things may get noisy in 2013—their mating songs are among the loudest of all sounds produced by insects—don’t worry, they won’t bite or sting. The emergence of periodical cicadas is actually a fascinating natural phenomenon to observe.
EarthSky (http://earthsky.org/earth/large-brood-of-17-year-cicadas-expected-this-spring)
Dammit. Didn't we just get a 13-year brood in 2009?
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EarthSky (http://earthsky.org/earth/large-brood-of-17-year-cicadas-expected-this-spring)
Dammit. Didn't we just get a 13-year brood in 2009?
Doesn't look like it will effect you or we here in the mitten like in 2009! Thank God. Damn things are gross and loud!
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We got hit by them in 2011.
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I only heard them once. Drove me crazy.
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I only heard them once. Drove me crazy.
Hearing them is one thing. Having them fly into your face and crawl on you is even worse. They're all over everything... trees, light poles, bushes. :runaway:
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Doesn't look like it will effect you or we here in the mitten like in 2009! Thank God. Damn things are gross and loud!
Hmmm? Looks like we had them in 2007 not 2009! Weird! I could have sworn we had them in the last couple of years?
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When I lived in VA we got them once, it was about 77-78 or so. Dang things were everywhere. Crunched em every time you were outside walking around.
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When I lived in VA we got them once, it was about 77-78 or so. Dang things were everywhere. Crunched em every time you were outside walking around.
That's one way of helping cut down on future infestations. O-) :whistling:
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I've been through the invasions 3 times. They redefine ugly, and fish won't even eat them after about 2-3 days.
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Guessing here but I think our last outbreak was in the late 90s or early 2000s. I guess we could be coming due for another invasion. Great, just when the stupid stinkbugs have finally subsided . . . :censored:
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Maybe it's time for chocolate-covered cicadas.
Just for Mother's Day. :-)
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Our dog tries to eat them. :rofl:
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I remmeber the swarm we saw in 1985 or 1986. Growing up, our house was at the very end of a long road that ran from the highway, through a wooded area, down to the lake. With all of the trees surrounding the lake (it was Army Corps of Engineers property but we went down there anyway), they got so bad you could sweep them up into piles and burn them like leaves
I've never seen it that bad again, but any place with a lot of old trees is going to get it worse than the city and suburbs.
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I have a constant ringing in the ears......comes in handy ever once in a while.... :-)
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I have a constant ringing in the ears......comes in handy ever once in a while.... :-)
Not when it sounds like cicadas all the :censored: time.
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I love cicadas! The sound of summer! :-)
I'd like to try to fry some of them up, if I can gather enough of them. I hear they are pretty good.
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(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cumtw3Eby2M/TaYz-FoQzuI/AAAAAAAAAds/_RvJU40m7ZY/s1600/cicada-2.jpg)
(http://www.metrotomountain.com/assets/images/scree/cicadaGroup.jpg)
(http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/004/cache/cicada_498_600x450.jpg)
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Hope the chickens like them.
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Hope the chickens like them.
Chickens eat bugs, don't they?
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NO!!!!
I hope the scorpions eat them all. Those things are so loud. I'd rather listen to crickets all night.
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NO!!!!
I hope the scorpions eat them all. Those things are so loud. I'd rather listen to crickets all night.
You're in Vegas. You're not going to see them.
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You're in Vegas. You're not going to see them.
We have them every year. It's not like thousands of them sitting on everything like the Midwest, but they do appear every year. It wasn't so bad last year. I only really noticed the dead skin/shells whatever those things are. It's disgusting.
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Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
Great, teenagers. All the drama, loud music, fast cars, and the bobby sox clubs...yuck!
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mah26og11ms[/youtube]
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We have them every year. It's not like thousands of them sitting on everything like the Midwest, but they do appear every year. It wasn't so bad last year. I only really noticed the dead skin/shells whatever those things are. It's disgusting.
We have them every year here, too. I remember putting the shells on our shirts when we were kids and walking around with them like they were decoration. We called them locusts back then...heck, we still do :-) The annual cicadas do not swarm as bad as the 13 or 17 year brood.
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We have them every year here, too. I remember putting the shells on our shirts when we were kids and walking around with them like they were decoration. We called them locusts back then...heck, we still do :-) The annual cicadas do not swarm as bad as the 13 or 17 year brood.
If they're showing up every year, they probably are locusts.
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I am, or was for over 45 years, an amateur entomologist. Our daughter is now keeper of my "bug" collection.
Gleaned from several internet sites:
Cicadas are in the order Homoptera, most closely related to plant lice and leafhoppers.
Cicadas lay eggs in slits in twigs. Annual species hatch and mature on their host trees and sing loudly during hot summer days. Periodical cicadas drop to the ground after hatching and spend anywhere from a few to 17 years as nymphs feeding on tree roots underground before maturing to adults. Cicadas also destroy the small twigs on trees.
"Locust" is a general, colloquial term that usually refers to migratory grasshoppers of the order Orthoptera, but is sometimes applied to other insects of the order, including crickets, cicadas and katydids. Swarms of locusts were common during our Dust Bowl years, and there are still swarms of them throughout the world.
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I am, or was for over 45 years, an amateur entomologist. Our daughter is now keeper of my "bug" collection.
Gleaned from several internet sites:
Cicadas are in the order Homoptera, most closely related to plant lice and leafhoppers.
Cicadas lay eggs in slits in twigs. Annual species hatch and mature on their host trees and sing loudly during hot summer days. Periodical cicadas drop to the ground after hatching and spend anywhere from a few to 17 years as nymphs feeding on tree roots underground before maturing to adults. Cicadas also destroy the small twigs on trees.
"Locust" is a general, colloquial term that usually refers to migratory grasshoppers of the order Orthoptera, but is sometimes applied to other insects of the order, including crickets, cicadas and katydids. Swarms of locusts were common during our Dust Bowl years, and there are still swarms of them throughout the world.
We used to call cicadas katydids and locusts. Looking at pictures of the different ones, they are three separate things. Locusts are what is more commonly called a grasshopper, katydids look like a funny green grasshopper with wider wings and cicadas look like some alien monster.
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Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
Great, teenagers. All the drama, loud music, fast cars, and the bobby sox clubs...yuck!
LOL too funny
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If they're showing up every year, they probably are locusts.
I went to some websites, and a cicada shell is what we were calling a locust shell. There are some varieties that come out yearly.
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTuYC-OypUUOl5a2CAEBna7AymaOC7glAkAvzG1ZNRHLZVOrY-nPg)
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Cicadas also destroy the small twigs on trees.
So that's why there are so many twigs in my backyard this year. :rant:
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I've got a pin oak that was killed by galls.
I've got a guy coming out in a week or so to cut it down. It was a great tree, but the critters that formed the galls killed it and I don't want it falling across my fence.
No stump grinding. The tree is in my back yard and I couldn't care less how the stump looks.
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I've got a pin oak that was killed by galls.
I've got a guy coming out in a week or so to cut it down. It was a great tree, but the critters that formed the galls killed it and I don't want it falling across my fence.
No stump grinding. The tree is in my back yard and I couldn't care less how the stump looks.
If you will leave it there then make sure you treat it with this;
Spectracide 1.3 gal. Ready-To-Use Termite and Carpenter Ant Killer
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Spectracide-1-3-gal-Ready-To-Use-Termite-and-Carpenter-Ant-Killer-HG-53391-5/100046531#.UWR8Y5zD9jo
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If they're showing up every year, they probably are locusts.
Do the locusts make those annoying humming noises too? It's just those humming noises and dead skin shell things.
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Do the locusts make those annoying humming noises too? It's just those humming noises and dead skin shell things.
I don't know. I only encountered locusts once in North Carolina and I wasn't there long enough to find out.
I went to some websites, and a cicada shell is what we were calling a locust shell. There are some varieties that come out yearly.
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTuYC-OypUUOl5a2CAEBna7AymaOC7glAkAvzG1ZNRHLZVOrY-nPg)
That is a locust and not a cicada.
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If you will leave it there then make sure you treat it with this;
Spectracide 1.3 gal. Ready-To-Use Termite and Carpenter Ant Killer
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Spectracide-1-3-gal-Ready-To-Use-Termite-and-Carpenter-Ant-Killer-HG-53391-5/100046531#.UWR8Y5zD9jo
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Okay, I see the wisdom of doing that, but this tree is about 100 meters from my house. Kinda stands alone - though there is some sort of really nasty picker-type bush next to it that's on my neighbor's property.
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I don't know. I only encountered locusts once in North Carolina and I wasn't there long enough to find out.
That is a locust and not a cicada.
That's what pops up when I do Google image search for cicada shells.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cicada&hl=en&rlz=1C1GPEA_enUS316&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=OE5lUafnNYek8ASVroHwBw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=909#hl=en&rlz=1C1GPEA_enUS316&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=cicada+shells&oq=cicada+shells&gs_l=img.3..0l3j0i24l2.6982.7911.0.8381.7.6.0.1.1.0.102.337.5j1.6.0...0.0...1c.1.8.img.bcym9ItjXNg&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.44990110,d.eWU&fp=af726cb83c19077b&biw=1280&bih=909
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Okay, I see the wisdom of doing that, but this tree is about 100 meters from my house. Kinda stands alone - though there is some sort of really nasty picker-type bush next to it that's on my neighbor's property.
A gallon of kerosene or gasoline and a match would do the trick, too. :fuelfire: :tongue: O-)
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A gallon of kerosene or gasoline and a match would do the trick, too. :fuelfire: :tongue: O-)
:hammer:
:naughty: It's a thought, but somehow I don't think my neighbor would be keen on the idea of a 75 foot tree going nukular about 30 yards from his house. :-)
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That's what pops up when I do Google image search for cicada shells.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cicada&hl=en&rlz=1C1GPEA_enUS316&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=OE5lUafnNYek8ASVroHwBw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=909#hl=en&rlz=1C1GPEA_enUS316&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=cicada+shells&oq=cicada+shells&gs_l=img.3..0l3j0i24l2.6982.7911.0.8381.7.6.0.1.1.0.102.337.5j1.6.0...0.0...1c.1.8.img.bcym9ItjXNg&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.44990110,d.eWU&fp=af726cb83c19077b&biw=1280&bih=909
That is a cicada shell, dixierose. Locust don't shed like that. Locust basically look like a huge, overgrown grasshopper.
I think some people call a 'locust' a 'cicada', and vice versa, sort of a buffalo/bison thing.
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They’re here: Cicadas are emerging!
By Kevin Ambrose, Published: May 13, 2013 at 10:40 amE-mail the writer
This photo shows a group of cicadas that emerged from the ground Saturday night near Manassas, Virginia. The cicadas crawled out of their nymph skins during the overnight hours and patiently waited for their shells to harden and for their wings to expand and dry out. (Kevin Ambrose)
For those of you who live in an area affected by Brood II of the periodical 17 year cicadas — see map here — they have started to emerge. During this past weekend, the loud and clumsy bug was observed in counties just to the south of Washington.
I had a camp out scheduled with my kids this past weekend in central Prince William County and I knew that my campsite was located in Brood II country. I packed my camera hoping to find and photograph cicadas.
On Saturday afternoon, I arrived at the camping area near Manassas, Virginia and I looked in the trees for cicadas and their nymph shells. I found an apple tree that had a few nymph skins and one cicada. Most of the trees in the surrounding area, however, did not have cicadas.
Get ready for some noise! (And crunching underfoot.) (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/05/13/theyre-here-cicadas-are-emerging/)
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I hope we see some soon. Our dog loves chasing them and eating them.