How F'n annoying are Cicadas?


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no smart guy.

I don't have to worry about insects, but seagulls annoy me.

that alright, me sharin that..with you? :rolleyes:

maybe we don't wanna hear your stories :p

anyways, I am completely skeeved out by bugs. If I see a million of these things, forget it, california here I come.

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Ooh, a mod power struggle. To the victor goes the spoils!

nah

its all in the family, we take our anger out on peeps that egg us on....like you :shifty:

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Yeah, we have the little mongrels here in Australia. I haven't heard/seen of them in a long time. Why do they come back on the 17 yr ratio? How was that worked out. I played those WAV's, and one just sounds bloody annoying, imagine what a billion would sound like.

Final comment; It sucks to be you!  :woot:

Takes 17 years for the eggs that they lay to hatch. I guess its no different then 9 months for humans to give birth, this one is just longer.

Althought annoying as hell, its kind neat.

The best-known of these is the 17-Year Cicada (Magicicada), which lives only in the United States. After 17 years of dormancy underground, this species emerges for 5 weeks of activity in the sunlight, and then dies. With the exception of the termite queen, this cicada is probably the longest living insect. The 17-year Cicada is often incorrectly called the 17-year Locust. True locusts are grasshoppers.

Life Cycle

From June through September, adult males sit in treetops throughout much of North America producing rhythmic ticks, buzzes or whines to attract females. These "songs" result from the vibration of their drum-like abdominal membranes (timbals).

Different species of cicadas can be recognized by differences in their songs, behavior and morphology. Males of each species make three distinct types of sound -- courtship, disturbance and congregational, which varies according to daily weather fluctuations.

After mating, females deposit eggs in slits they cut into twigs and branches. One female lays from 200 to 600 eggs and such activity can sometimes injure ornamentals. Eggs hatch into nymphs, which drop to the ground and burrow into the soil as much as 6 feet. Here they suck juices from roots of perennial trees and shrubs. Depending upon the species, cicada nymphs remain underground from 1 to 17 years.

Then by instinct they leave their burrows to climb the trunk of a tree. Their skins split open, and mature cicadas emerge. Emergence almost always occurs on the same night, although the eggs were laid over a period of weeks years earlier. With the cicada's song, the cycle begins anew.

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nah

its all in the family, we take our anger out on peeps that egg us on....like you :shifty:

Bring it on...

No wait, maybe not a good decision. :D

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We have em every year. Used to play with them and collect them as kids. "Green Grocers" were the common ones but there was also "Black Prince's" (fairly rare), "Yellow Mondays", "Gray Ghost" and a few others.....cant remember atm.

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maybe we don't wanna hear your stories :p

anyways, I am completely skeeved out by bugs. If I see a million of these things, forget it, california here I come.

From what I've heard on CNN, NYC isn't supposed to see a lot of them. Lucky us. :happy:

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.....Worst part is they are blind and will jump all over you. They are nasty too. But they sometimes make me feel sexy cause I know when they do jump on me, they are humpin me.

ewwww....you got some weird fetishes there man....you need to see a doctor!!! :rofl:

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These are the most miserable creatures on the face of the earth :wacko: I first heard them several years ago when I moved to Texas... I didn't know WTF they were at the time, they scared me and all I knew at the time is that they were ugly as crap and and loud as heck and they were swarming in the trees around my house. I hope they are not coming back... I'm scared they will eat me in my sleep :cry:

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Well there literally a couple billion in my development woods. These things are so loud. Its almost deafening(sp?).

Worst part is they are blind and will jump all over you. They are nasty too. But they sometimes make me feel sexy cause I know when they do jump on me, they are humpin me.

:rolleyes: Why don't you just eat them ?

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I also live in Maryland near DC, and they are really bad here. There are dead ones all over the sidewalks and they swarm around trees. The noise is horrible, its almost like a constant loud humming. Kinda gross but they don't bite or anything.

One of the news channels here had a segment about people that ate them and gave recipies.

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In Australia we used to get them in swarms too, but its basically become part of the culture...every kid here will go collecting cicada shells or the cicadas themselves while they're growing up. We've got "Greengrocers" here which spend an 8 year cycle underground but they appear every summer around November.

They dont just hump and have sex, they actually spend 90% of the time drinking tree sap, then that noise they make is actually the males calling to females, basically a "come have sex with me". They're completely harmless though and half the species will be eaten by birds before they're a few days old.

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why every 17 years? and when they come back, how does it happen? don't they ALL die when they are supposed to?....or are there a few left and so they wait 17 years?? these things are nuts!!!!! :devil:

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Yeah we got em here in WV a few years ago when I was 17. I live in a heavily wooded area, and they're rediculously loud. I was standing out in the woods one night at around 8pm, and you could hear thousands coming up out of the ground at the same time... creepy noise. Won't happen again till I'm 34. :laugh:

edit: oh, and there's a difference between the 17 year ones and the normal ones. the normal ones are pretty sparse but they're around all the time.

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