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Login/Join to Participateparanoid of gov't conspiracies
217 posts
Location: USA
so the cicadas (sorry if the spelling is terribly wrong) are suppose to be coming tomorrow and i was wondering where else in the US or the world do they come out every 17yrs also? i'm in Maryland and i've been asking everyone i know if it is only this region the whole country or contenent or everywhere that the cicadas come to? so where are you and do they come out every 17yrs there for you?
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
They sure make an appearance in TX...
Sporadically Prodigal
2,758 posts
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
not sure about this 17year cycle thing. We have cicadas every summer in Australia. love em.
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Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
yeah, i dont know anything about a cycle thing.
i quite like cicadas, as long as they arent like how they were when i went to Hall's Gap last year! it was deafening! you'd walk outsidea and hear nothing but cicadas! and then your ears would right for ages afterwards!
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
Wonder if she means Locusts?
Pooh-Bah
2,211 posts
Location: London, Wales (UK)
Cicada / Locusts - same difference!
Get them every year in Japan as well. Damn they are LOUD!
Come faeries, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame.
- W B Yeats
Apparently they aren't! This is maybe what she's talking about? Cicadas! While locusts are a type of grasshopper!
Pooh-Bah
2,211 posts
Location: London, Wales (UK)
Are they not? Blast my Japanese / English dictionary! Semi means locust and cicada so for the past 5 or so years, always thought they were the same thing
Come faeries, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame.
- W B Yeats
Quote:Maybe it was printed in China?
Blast my Japanese / English dictionary!
No worries! 
Pooh-Bah
2,211 posts
Location: London, Wales (UK)
Nope! Semi does actually mean locust and cicada in Japanese. Perhaps the Japanese decided they were similar enough to mean the same thing
Anyhow - back to the bugs!
Come faeries, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame.
- W B Yeats
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
i dont know about cicadas...but a grasshopper is a grasshopper...unless there are a hell of a lot of them, then they become locusts. my understanding is that they're the same type of grasshopper. maybe its the same with cicadas
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
the 17 year cicadas are at a max this year in the states - though those species of cidada (and any other) are always around every year, the 17 year population of flying adults spikes heavily this year - this is across the eastern seaboard from Georgia up and thru to the west to about Ohio or so I beleive.
Texas has the 13 year cycle ones most predominately, and while they do population spike at 13 years, the spike isn't nearly as large as for the 17 year ones.
BTW, 17 year cicadas spend 16.9 years underground as nymphs and a month or so above ground as adults flying around and mating. the 13 year ones do something similar or course, just with a 13 year period.
-v-
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HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Well, the map I saw showed that there is a patch right around here.
But I haven't seen/heard any today.
Oh! Wait! I've been stuck inside this god-forsaken hospital all friggin' day! Maybe that's why?
-Mike
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Llamas are larger than frogs.
319 posts
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Yeah, we're getting them here- they were supposed to come out last Friday, but I'm still not seing any... I think it just has to rain. people are going freakin INSANE
about them-there's an article in the paper, like, every day..there's a cicada limerick contest...the trees are all covered with netting stuff...it's crazy!!!!!!But I am a little freaked out about them "I know a good deal more than a boiled carrot."
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enthusiast
352 posts
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Being from the North of England I have no idea what you're on about. checked out that link though...
They tell you how to cook these grasshoppery locust things
do people seriously eat them?
One day i'll learn to resist gravity...
Llamas are larger than frogs.
319 posts
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
yeah...apparently they taste like asparagus.
I think someone makes a cicada cake, and there was this joke that there was a cicada pizza,too, but I'm pretty sure that wasn't true. "I know a good deal more than a boiled carrot."
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Are we there yet?
1,897 posts
Location: australia
ahh cicadas, the true sound of the australian summer!!
some years we have more than others, but I can't remember a year when we didn't have any:
pizzwackers
greengrocers
yellow mondays
black princes etc...
Are we there yet?
1,897 posts
Location: australia
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I think it just has to rain. people are going freakin INSANE about them-there's an article in the paper, like, every day..there's a cicada limerick contest...the trees are all covered with netting stuff...it's crazy!!!!!!But I am a little freaked out about them
What's to get freaked out about?
Have you ever caught one?
Ever had the drums start vibrating when a cicada is sitting in your hand?
Why cover the tree with netting?
Why freak out? I thought cicadas were fun little critters.....
paranoid of gov't conspiracies
217 posts
Location: USA
thanks for all the replies, so we are suppose to have cicadas here now but i have yet to see any, i do remember last time they were out tho when i was little i used to play w/ the shells anyway yeah i know that there are cicadas that come out every year but i was just wondering specifically about the "17 year ones".
Tantamount to fatuity
15,967 posts
Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
Quote:
Being from the North of England I have no idea what you're on about. checked out that link though...
I'm from the north of england and i know what they are.....but ten perhaps my being in SE Asia for the last 7 months has something to do with that.....
Noisy blinking creatures, kept us awake for many a night in India and Malaysia.
It was big scary lizards in the Philippines though......
Meh
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
like I said, the 17 year ones are always around - there are broods every year. it just happens that there is one brood that happens to be MUCH larger than all the rest, and this year is the year for that brood.
Cicadas are apparently quite tasty to almost any critter interested in such things - birds will totally gorge themselves on cicadas.
I don't see why people should be putting nets over trees. this will harm most other critters a lot more than it will cicadas. those people should be vigerously spanked! - unless they like being spanked, in which case they should be vigerously not spanked...
-v-
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Stream Entrant
2,829 posts
Location: Melbourne, Australia
In Australia, we were expecting a Locust plague of biblical proportions this year. Locusts hatch in the deserts of central Australia and devour everything in their path as the move south. Locusts FAQ.
We see / hear Cicadas during the summer. Here is a Cicada fact sheet.
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Llamas are larger than frogs.
319 posts
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Ade- "freaked out" is a bit too extreme of a term...it's just thinking about the huge swarms...flying into your hair and everything...having too walk over carpets of dead ones...playing soccer and kicking up a couple dozen along with the ball...drowned cicadas in the pool...like I said, I'm sure it won't be that bad, but still
I think the nets are to keep them from eating the trees-and it's only on new ones.
"I know a good deal more than a boiled carrot."
"Fire!" "Where?" "Nowhere, I was just illustrating the misuse of free speech."
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9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA
At Playa Del Fuego (Burningman Festival in Baltimore) there was Pad Thai with Cicadas.
Yum.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
paranoid of gov't conspiracies
217 posts
Location: USA
for all the hype and talk about the cicadas and how they would be everywhere, they really weren't, at least not where i was and they weren't a problem at all.
Mushroom Fueled Frenzy
139 posts
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Im down in philly, origionally from jersey. I can say every summer I see them around here.. I dont understand the whole 17 year thing. Perhaps every 17 years there is an influx of the little buggers, but they seem to be around every summer. Im to burnt out on engineering to think this through....
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
read my posts earlier in this thread and you'll get it.
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
Llamas are larger than frogs.
319 posts
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
There were quite a few here, but now they are mostly gone, they did stink up the place quite a bit, though.
"I know a good deal more than a boiled carrot."
"Fire!" "Where?" "Nowhere, I was just illustrating the misuse of free speech."
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