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Billions of cicadas will ascend upon the northeastern States as another 17-year cycle concludes
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| 4/16/16
| Travis M. Andrews
Posted on 04/16/2016 6:51:56 AM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
This particular group of insects has a 17-year-life cycle that begins underground and culminates in the air as they swell and swarm and scream and sing, issuing deafening cries as the males desperately seek mates.17 years reproductive cycle... deafening cries while seeking mates..
This behavior is not confined to locusts.
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posted on
04/16/2016 6:54:43 AM PDT
by
Pearls Before Swine
(The would-be Empress has no clothes. My eyes!)
To: Pearls Before Swine
You mean like OWS and SJW and #blm at a Trump disruption event? :>)
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posted on
04/16/2016 6:57:19 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
If we could put an end to it who would notice?
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posted on
04/16/2016 6:59:57 AM PDT
by
equaviator
(There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
To: rktman
I was thinking more along the lines of teenagers at a hip-hop concert.
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posted on
04/16/2016 7:02:42 AM PDT
by
Pearls Before Swine
(The would-be Empress has no clothes. My eyes!)
To: Pearls Before Swine
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posted on
04/16/2016 7:03:28 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: equaviator
-—If we could put an end to it who would notice?-—
Just curious, just how do you do that...?
As a side note, I’m not real sure it’s a good thing to play God with mother nature...
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posted on
04/16/2016 7:05:55 AM PDT
by
Popman
(Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
Seen them once here on the farm since I bought it, that was several years ago.
Different type here I’m sure, as I am in Nor. Cal.
Cool critter, the trout love them.
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posted on
04/16/2016 7:06:51 AM PDT
by
5th MEB
(Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
They’re huge too, not like grasshoppers or locusts. More like a massive cockroach, only without all the waving antennae.
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posted on
04/16/2016 7:09:26 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: Popman
My question is “WHY WOULD ANYBODY WANT TO DO THAT”, they don’t seem to bother anything.
It’s just one of those comforting, cyclical, natural things that happens in the world.
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posted on
04/16/2016 7:11:16 AM PDT
by
5th MEB
(Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
Anyone have some good cicada recipes to share?
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posted on
04/16/2016 7:11:32 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Hey now baby, get into my big black car, I just want to show you what my politics are.)
To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
We’ve had it here in Cincy; up close, they are cute and look like a nerd with thick glasses. When they fail and end up on their back, I can’t help but turn them over...alas, they die like 24 hrs later or less.
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posted on
04/16/2016 7:12:15 AM PDT
by
CincyRichieRich
(Trump is the ticket or the republic ends.)
To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
I remember that from the early-mid 1980’s.Trees in full bloom in May,stripped bare by July.I was working evenings at the hospital then and would walk home from the train station on a quiet,tree-lined,suburban street at around midnight.You could actually *hear* the bugs munching on the leaves!
To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
I remember vacationing in the Ozarks with kids in 1982. The things were sometimes two and three bodies thick along the paths. No fish were biting since they were gorged on the cicadas. The noise was deafening. I don’t remember 1999 so much. Lots of stuff going on that summer. This looking to be another drought year although that probably won’t affect the emergence.
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posted on
04/16/2016 7:14:17 AM PDT
by
Mercat
(Boredom is a problem on the inside. And happiness, too, is an inside job.)
To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
The big cohort of cicadas doesn’t return to the mid-Atlantic region until 2021.
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posted on
04/16/2016 7:15:26 AM PDT
by
Interesting Times
(WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
Oh,I guess it's a different bug they're talking about.But there's another bug,called gypsy moths (IIRC),that strike here periodically and do just what I described.
To: rktman
....You mean at a BIG Trump rally?
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posted on
04/16/2016 7:18:01 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: Popman
You’re asking me? I didn’t claim to know how to do that. I didn’t even hint at it.
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posted on
04/16/2016 7:19:15 AM PDT
by
equaviator
(There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
To: Pearls Before Swine
I was thinking more along the lines of teenagers at a hip-hop concert. I dont understand the analogy.
No one sings at a Hip Hop concert.
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posted on
04/16/2016 7:19:22 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: Mercat
No draught in northern Texas.
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posted on
04/16/2016 7:26:25 AM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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