Well I arrive home tonight at around 1am and what do I see on the walls of my house?? The beginning of the once every 17 years infestation. I grabbed my camera and snapped some cool photos of the cicadas emerging from there wingless state.

I personally dont mind these things and I remember back when I was 10 years old when they came out then. They are everywhere!! 1.5 million per acre they say. My dogs eat them like chicken nuggets!
What do you guys think of them?

 

eek, so they must be everywhere eh? They look pretty big, or is it just the great camera work?

 

They are GIGANTIC.....check it out JK....they are about an inch or two in size.

 

Spankee, your dog is nuts!

 

those things look gross, and must cause quite a mess on the front of your car!!

 

If you think they create a mess on a car, run into one on a motorcycle and you don't have a full face helmet!!

Our ground temperature isn't high enough just yet for them to come out, needs to be around 64*F.

 

KILL IT!!!! I FREAKIN HATE BUGS!

 

aliens

 

I hope that Fear Factor collects a bunch of them and uses them on their show! I wanna see how many of these suckers the "players" can eat.

 

sick man sick! Its like Aliens.......We need to go starship troopers on them....

I found this read to be funny.

There are three parts to the song a male cicada sings when he's looking for a little love, explains entomologist Michael Raupp, gently squeezing a wriggling insect between his thumb and forefinger.

First there's the "How ya' doin'?" tune, followed by "Do you come here often?" But the last is key to closing the deal, the one every male belts out loud because a cicada's got to be a bit forward when he's got only one chance every 17 years to mate.


"It's the, 'This bar's closing down, do you want to come home and see my etchings?' song," Raupp said.