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Cicada Swarm 2013: A Pictorial Guide To The Bug Plague
http://www.ibtimes.com/cicada-swarm-2013-pictorial-guide-bug-plague-looming-over-east-coast-photos-1 ^ | May 08 2013

Posted on 05/10/2013 7:56:30 AM PDT by JoeProBono

All around the Northeast -- from Pennsylvania to Maryland to Connecticut -- billions of cicadas are starting to emerge from the ground after 17 years of underground adolescence mostly spent feeding on the fluid inside tree roots.

While this emergence is the biggest in the Northeastern U.S. in a long while, the Southern states have had recent visits too. There are about 15 distinct broods of cicadas that emerge regularly in the U.S. In 2011, the Great Southern Brood popped up across the American Southeast.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Gardening
KEYWORDS: cicada; outbreak; pests; sourcetitlenoturl
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To: JoeProBono

When I was a kid we used to tie thread around them and fly them. We couldn’t afford those motorized model planes.


21 posted on 05/10/2013 10:13:18 AM PDT by Starstruck (Don't rest. We came close to the 2nd Amendment being field tested.)
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22 posted on 05/10/2013 10:24:55 AM PDT by JoeProBono (Free Quix)
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Yeah...we were so poor we had to wrap our bare feet in barbed-wire so we could walk to school in the ice.


23 posted on 05/10/2013 10:30:38 AM PDT by Cuttnhorse
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To: JoeProBono

I’ve been stung by bees, wasps, hornets, yellowjackets etc. I’ve never been stung by one of those Cicada Killers but they look like they could do the job.


24 posted on 05/10/2013 10:33:56 AM PDT by Starstruck (Don't rest. We came close to the 2nd Amendment being field tested.)
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Yeah...we were so poor we had to wrap our bare feet in barbed-wire so we could walk to school in the ice.

You had barbed wire? We had to visit the thorn tree:)

25 posted on 05/10/2013 10:36:23 AM PDT by Starstruck (Don't rest. We came close to the 2nd Amendment being field tested.)
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To: JoeProBono

I love the hear them, it’s a sound of life!


26 posted on 05/10/2013 11:23:21 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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I like the sound when fishing. Reminds me of my grandfather. When sitting at my house, not so much.

I REALLY love the sound of the whipper-will bird (may not be the real name). Very calm and peaceful to me.


27 posted on 05/10/2013 11:27:46 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Dole are sure losers. No more!)
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To: Ransomed
Huh. I just did a web search and they are little sap suckers. You were right.

At least they do not swarm around me when I go outside and bite my sap!

28 posted on 05/10/2013 12:43:20 PM PDT by Slyfox (The red face of shame is proof that the conscience is still operational.)
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To: JoeProBono

I wish I had stayed off this thread, LOL


29 posted on 05/10/2013 2:13:20 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: momtothree

I looked at the pics (BAD ENOUGH)——did I miss the video?

No, no....never mind.

(You’re evil, LOL)


30 posted on 05/10/2013 2:16:24 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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31 posted on 05/10/2013 2:22:54 PM PDT by JoeProBono (Free Quix)
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ARGH


32 posted on 05/10/2013 2:42:17 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: Starstruck

Tree, Tree??...we had to plug our one light bulb into a current bush.


33 posted on 05/10/2013 5:08:18 PM PDT by Cuttnhorse
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