The infestation has begun!!
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Spankee, great photo's!
When I was a kid I caught a bunch of them as they came out of the ground. I took them all in the house and put them on the curtains. It was so cool to watch them slowly climb the curtains and come out of their shells. I love to see and hear them.
When I was a kid I caught a bunch of them as they came out of the ground. I took them all in the house and put them on the curtains. It was so cool to watch them slowly climb the curtains and come out of their shells. I love to see and hear them.
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I think they stay around till mid to the end of June. It takes a couple hours for them to metamorph into the winged bugs. I saw a bunch of them just crawling from the ground looking like beetles headed towards the wall so they can climb up.
I went to a friends daughters Bday party today and there was a guy there eating them alive!! He had a beer in one handand a cup full of live cicadas in the other! Just popped them in his mouth and started chewing away. I would try them cooked but raw?? He said it was a good source of protein.
I went to a friends daughters Bday party today and there was a guy there eating them alive!! He had a beer in one handand a cup full of live cicadas in the other! Just popped them in his mouth and started chewing away. I would try them cooked but raw?? He said it was a good source of protein.
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From time to time, we get science based programs on these things and thus, they represent a thing of curiosity and wonder for me. I'm curious to know what they mean to those who live with them. Do they do damage to the vegitation like locust do? What kind of environmental harm do they do?
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Yet for all their noise and annoyance, they are fairly benign beasts, biting neither people nor pets. All they ask of life is a tall tree to sing from and to live under. For cicadas spend most of their lives not in trees, but in the ground under them, drinking sweet sap from the roots and slowly growing and waiting for their brief, noisy days in the sun.
In places where there are millions of periodic cicadas, the insects can cause some short-term damage to tender twigs, and even kill young trees.
"Everything eats them.... Many birds feed on the insects, one kind of wasp stuns them and hauls them into underground lairs. Skunks and raccoons will dine on them, given a chance.
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by SilverKnight
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.
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.
