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Old Aug 8, 2020 | 02:32 PM
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It a locust! A plague is coming, a plague is coming!
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Old Aug 8, 2020 | 02:49 PM
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Not another !!
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Old Aug 8, 2020 | 03:04 PM
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It a locust! A plague is coming, a plague is coming!
We grew up calling them locust but my mother would always correct me! Thanks mom!

Locust are grasshoppers.
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Old Aug 8, 2020 | 03:39 PM
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grasshoppers are sauterelles....
Way to go Scoots...
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Old Aug 8, 2020 | 05:37 PM
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Cicadas would have been my guess. I saw (and heard) plenty of them growing up in the country in western New York State.
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Old Aug 9, 2020 | 03:32 AM
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Dave, cicadas emerge every 17 years.
pay it some respect, it's old.
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Old Aug 9, 2020 | 06:23 AM
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Cicada!

They are big and ugly but harmless.
Not all are harmless, some of the 3,000 varieties can hurt you hearing!



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Old Aug 9, 2020 | 06:33 AM
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Originally Posted by dlq04
Not all are harmless, some of the 3,000 varieties can hurt you hearing!


Not going to hurt me as I don't get near those ugly things!!
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Old Aug 9, 2020 | 10:40 AM
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It's not 'A' cicada that's loud, it's a hundred cicadas all calling for a mate that's really loud.
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Old Aug 9, 2020 | 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by boltonblue
It's not 'A' cicada that's loud, it's a hundred cicadas all calling for a mate that's really loud.
Get close enough to one and they are damn loud!
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