Posted on 04/05/2024 11:40:01 AM PDT by nuconvert
A map of where two periodical cicada broods have been observed across the eastern U.S. shows the areas in which they are likely to emerge in the next few weeks.
Experts are predicting that the two populations, which have been hibernating underground for over a decade, will appear at the same time, carpeting an area from southern Wisconsin to the Carolinas with as many as a hundred trillion bugs.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
So what are the implications for farmers and crops?
Why are they suddenly trying to create a hysteria about a bug that we have dealt with for decades. I remember them as a child in the 1950s. Nothing to panic about as they do not sting or bite.
I remember sitting in my 1973 high school classes hearing the noise of Brood XIX.
This is going to be an interesting year in American, with the explosive cicada broods, a solar eclipse, probably a volatile tornado/severe storm season, and finishing off with a contentious election.
Adult cicadas don't eat. They just emerge from the ground to mate for a week or so and then they're done.
Coconut-fried tree shrimp for everybody!
We used to call them seventeen year locusts. Now they’re Brood 19. And we have just had Covid 19. Coincidence? 🤡
Bill Gates says: Collect all the cicadas, grill them, and eat them. They are good for you. (Just like the CoVid vaccines.(
Why are they suddenly trying to create a hysteria about a bug that we have dealt with for decades. I remember them as a child in the 1950s. Nothing to panic about as they do not sting or bite.
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And from what I have seen, they are not nearly as strong as they used to be, except in rural areas. When I was young, when they emerged, they were LOUD and everywhere. Less and less each time since. I suspect that in the city and suburb it’s all the lawn chemicals and lack of old-growth trees.
Attended the dedication of the WWII Memorial, it was impossible to get a room in DC so got hotel room in Virginia about 25 miles outside of DC. The dead and dying cicadas were so thick you could not walk on the ground without stepping on them.
“Und you vill eat zee bugs und you vill like it!”
Sadly they won’t be in my area but I intend to display solidarity with them by standing in my yard and screaming for six weeks.
OK.
I wasn’t sure if thy were like grasshoppers that ate everything they saw.
I remember a Cicada emergence in the 70’s. There were birds walking around so stuffed they couldn’t fly. Their wings were sticking out beside them.
Air fryer recipes to follow?
They occur ever year, to one degree, or another. The boom years are lousy with them.
Why are the masses freaking out over the innocuous Cicadas? It's not ever worth the bits and bytes on a screen. They're even fun to play with. People need to get a grip.
Understandable.
Grasshoppers actually have a different lifecycle than cicadas. Grasshoppers are hemimetabolous insects, with 3 life cyles: egg, nymph, and adult. The nymphs and adults, the vast majority of their lives, both eat plants.
Cicadas have these same life cycles too, but the nymphs remain underground for years, harmlessly feeding on tree roots. By the time they emerge, they’re about done.
will they be allowed to vote, though?
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Yes they will; democrats are already printing completed ballots suitable for mail in voting.
Yes, yes get your dinner plates ready. All you can eat.
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