Are you ready for the Cicada?

[KennyM]

We are lucky. (newer neighborhood) Have not even seen one. They showed pictures on the news of so many on a tree that it was bending.

 

[KennyM]

Do a search on Cicada. The site called Cicada Mania has good facts. Locust and Kay-t-dids are different bugs.

 

[Jumbo Jet]

If someone comes up with a chemical to kill them... I'm game for about 500 gallons...



It's called DDT if you could get it. You just have to apply at the right time.



It would kill ALL the bugs, birds, etc.



Someone needs to relax the rules and let us spray the whole country with DDT at least once every ten years or so! Too many bugs! Too many dang Canadian geese too!

 

[Jdimig]

well there's more than one way to kill some geese!

ive seen a couple cicadas around my house, probablly be seeing alot more soon

 

[Hammer]

These things are a PIA to the truckers out there. Constant smashing against the windshields sounding like they want to come right thru(actually sounds like your being hit with golfballs). They are also not fun if you would happen to get to drive thru a swarm of them buzzing aroud either,can you say MESS. I would have to agree with young Will,and add me to the barrels of destruction... ... ... ... ... . Andy

 

[GIT-R-DONE]

I liked the vets description of them "they look like chicken nuggets to your pet, a whole yard full of them"

"Chicken Nuggets" Yummy!!!

Why is it everything always tastes like CHICKEN ?

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

Out on our property in S. W. Oregon, there are what appears to be cicadas every summer - pretty noisy out in the sagebrush...

 

[MDietrich]

In NW Iowa they start making their sound in August. As a kid I would hate to hear it because it meant school was just around the corner.

 

[JDinterman]

I'm at my parents house in Wesy Virginia this weekend and those things are everywhere! My dad told me there are supposed to be like 1 million per acre coming out of the ground

 

[rbattelle]

I am not looking forward to this invasion. Don't particularly care for bugs... never have, never will.

 

[Little Bill]

We've got cicada killers around. They are the B-52s of the bee world, big enough to carry a cicada.





http://ww2. lafayette. edu/~hollidac/cicadakillerhome.html

 

[Spooled-up]

Any day now.....



My neighbor was talking to some 79+ year old ladies and they said that the roads actually get slippery from all the dead bugs. They keep brooms by their doors to sweep them away to keep them out of the house.



The local news said they produce a roar of around 75 db if I remember right. Louder than city traffic, but not as loud as a passing train.



We've had enough rain to soften the ground up around here, guess we're just waiting for the 62 degree ground temp and the invasion begins!

 

[RBSOB]

We lived in Arlington Va. just outside D. C. during the last [1987] cycle. Never seen or heard anything like it. Millions of these things per acre! Sounds like chainsaws running at night and we shoveled the walkway in the morning rather than mash thru them! In some areas they will be dense enough to accumulate on the roads and they will also cause accidents by getting into vehicles and "upsetting" drivers. They are relatively harmless to humans and most vegatation, but there are just soooo many of them! Not much you can do, it will pass quickly and then you can tell your children about it until 2021!!! Have fun in the MID Atlantic area, Jim G. in CT