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After 17 years underground, billions of cicadas emerging
KC Star ^
| 5/20/07
| TARA BURGHART
Posted on 05/20/2007 9:59:37 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: Pharmboy
Are those your personal pictures?
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posted on
05/21/2007 12:23:55 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(You have to defile a mummy completely, or they come back to life. You know that.)
To: hole_n_one
Will these bad boys make it to Texas?
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posted on
05/21/2007 12:26:32 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(You have to defile a mummy completely, or they come back to life. You know that.)
To: Xenalyte
We had them around here a few years back. The dog loved them. I thought the noise was kinda cool. They get louder when the sun is out. Everytime a cloud would pass over, they would calm down.
63
posted on
05/21/2007 12:28:33 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: AppyPappy
I think they might be cool to see once. Preferably from inside.
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posted on
05/21/2007 12:29:45 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(You have to defile a mummy completely, or they come back to life. You know that.)
To: AppyPappy
Did your dog munch on ‘em?
65
posted on
05/21/2007 12:29:58 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(You have to defile a mummy completely, or they come back to life. You know that.)
To: Xenalyte
If they are, Pharmboy looks a lot like bugs in batter.
Who’d a thunk it?
66
posted on
05/21/2007 12:30:05 PM PDT
by
listenhillary
(Democrats are sacrificing civilization for political power)
To: Xenalyte
67
posted on
05/21/2007 12:30:55 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: hole_n_one
In 2004 you couldn’t hear anything but these 17 year cicadas when they got ramped up around sunset(East TN). They seem to always be on time.
To: Vision
I lived in Maryland once and remember the cicadas. They say they taste like asperagus. My kids used to wack ‘em with a tennis racket.
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posted on
05/21/2007 12:35:10 PM PDT
by
rbosque
(L)
To: Vision
Maryland’s 17 year hatching happened a few years ago. I live in the midwest within 300 miles of Chicago and the 17 year locust cycle occurred just 3 years ago or so here. If you live through it, it is not something you forget. It's noisy, the dead carcuses stink of rotting flesh, your house is covered with the larvae shell, you have gizzard goop on your windshield the size of a baseball. It's just nasty.
Makes me wonder how local the cycle is...
70
posted on
05/21/2007 12:37:18 PM PDT
by
IamConservative
(I could never be a liar; there's too much to remember.)
To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
Strange that there was no mention that when the 17-year cicadas emerge they strip the trees down to bear branches.
They also weaken the branches of trees because the females burrow into branches to lay their eggs. When we had the 17-year cicadas here in the mid-Atlantic three years ago, we spent hours picking up broken branches off the ground.
To: Xenalyte
Yeccchhh. Not me...found them on the net. The guy has a whole slew of them.
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:05:44 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
([She turned me into a] Newt! in '08)
To: boop
Do they have a lot of iodine in them?
73
posted on
05/21/2007 1:09:22 PM PDT
by
Scotsman will be Free
(11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
To: hole_n_one
More illegal aliens coming here to have babies!
74
posted on
05/21/2007 1:16:00 PM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
To: SittinYonder; wysiwyg
We lived in the country when our first child was young. He pointed out to me that we had 2 sets of grasshopper-like bugs. The first set to hatch out he called the wee-ooo bugs because of the sound they made. The second set he called the oooo-wee bugs. At age 3 or so the kid was right, they were different bugs and made different noise but I had never noticed. He has grown up to be a very smart man who notices everything.
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:17:02 PM PDT
by
Ditter
To: Gideon Reader
Yes. I expect Arlen Specter to quote Scottish law to back that up.
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:26:05 PM PDT
by
alarm rider
(Why should I not vote my conscience?)
To: boop
Did you find a link between shellfish allergy and the cicida or was there another factor that may have caused the patient to be alergic. Other allergies? Did the patient have arthritis or family history of arthritis?
I remember reading about that patient, probably here on FR by you?
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