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Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« on: April 08, 2013, 01:14:36 PM »
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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.
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Dammit.  Didn't we just get a 13-year brood in 2009?
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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2013, 01:26:53 PM »
Quote from: Chris_ on April 08, 2013, 01:14:36 PM
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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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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2013, 01:35:00 PM »
We got hit by them in 2011.
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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2013, 01:45:32 PM »
I only heard them once.  Drove me crazy.
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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2013, 01:46:57 PM »
Quote from: Dori on April 08, 2013, 01:45:32 PM
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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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2013, 01:57:32 PM »
Quote from: Toastedturningtidelegs on April 08, 2013, 01:26:53 PM
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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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2013, 02:02:01 PM »
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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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2013, 02:42:07 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on April 08, 2013, 02:02:01 PM
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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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2013, 02:45:18 PM »
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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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2013, 03:05:18 PM »
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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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2013, 03:58:52 PM »
Maybe it's time for chocolate-covered cicadas.

Just for Mother's Day.  :-)
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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2013, 04:10:04 PM »
Our dog tries to eat them.  :rofl:
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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2013, 04:11:56 PM »
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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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2013, 05:47:47 PM »
I have a constant ringing in the ears......comes in handy ever once in a while.... :-)
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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #14 on: April 08, 2013, 06:25:15 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on April 08, 2013, 05:47:47 PM
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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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #15 on: April 08, 2013, 06:33:30 PM »
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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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #17 on: April 08, 2013, 07:30:55 PM »
Hope the chickens like them.
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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #18 on: April 08, 2013, 07:48:28 PM »
Quote from: catsmtrods on April 08, 2013, 07:30:55 PM
Hope the chickens like them.

Chickens eat bugs, don't they?
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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #19 on: April 08, 2013, 08:18:07 PM »
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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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #20 on: April 08, 2013, 08:18:58 PM »
Quote from: Evil_Conservative on April 08, 2013, 08:18:07 PM
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I hope the scorpions eat them all.  Those things are so loud.  I'd rather listen to crickets all night.
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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #21 on: April 08, 2013, 08:23:41 PM »
Quote from: Chris_ on April 08, 2013, 08:18:58 PM
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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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #22 on: April 08, 2013, 08:49:26 PM »
Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013

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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #23 on: April 09, 2013, 06:47:46 AM »
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Re: Large brood of 17-year cicadas expected in 2013
« Reply #24 on: April 09, 2013, 10:17:25 AM »
Quote from: Evil_Conservative on April 08, 2013, 08:23:41 PM
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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