Cicadas!!!!!!!

alright i'm sitting here at work bored as anything so i figured i would make a thread on Cicadas. The reason i came up with this is because i work in Potomac, Maryland and these damn bugs are sooo loud that i can't even hear the phone ring! it's like we are getting attacked by them or something...i heard on the news last night that this lady was driving with her windows down and one flew in her car, she flipped out and hit a pole. these bugs are taking over... :cwm27: i was just wondering if anybody else has the cicadas as bad as my area does?? does anyone have any crazy stories about these big bugs. what do you think about them? also i heard if you hold their wings they scream!

yeah, we have em in Wisconsin, down in Milwaukee.....but I don't live there anymore. I haven't heard a cidada since I moved up north. I guess they don't like the cooler weather. But, down in Milwaukee, we had an infestation one year in our neighborhood. My cats would catch them and bring them into our kitchen! it was crazy :screwy: also, i have to say, they are probably the scariest looking bug in the United States, in my opinion :uhoh:

yeah i know they are the ugliest lookin things ever. i can't stand them...i freak out going outside because once they get in your hair it's over, they are stuck in there until they die...GROSS! i just can't stand the noise they make.

I'm up here in Lewistown, PA right now and we have them, they don't bother me though, not the bugs nor the noise.

They taste good though.....

I'm up here in Lewistown, PA right now and we have them, they don't bother me though, not the bugs nor the noise.

They taste good though.....
/\ :eek: Ray you freak :lol2:

We get cicadas south of Pittsburgh, PA. My cat went to smell one once... just to check it out and see what fell out of the tree, and one of it's legs went up his nose and both he and the bug were freaking out. I thought I was gonna die of laughter.

They are really gross... and don't even get me started on how gross it is when you STEP on one. :puke:

They're everywhere here in Kansas, somebody was saying you guys don't get them every year in some parts, that there's a difference between yearly and the ones that come up every 17. If we get double this year we'll be screwed.

The ones we have here are the 17 year brood.

I live in cincinnati, this is supposed to be one of the worst places in the us for cicadas....they are all over the place...good news tho, they are easy to catch, and are GREAT fishing bait...the fish always bite when there's a cicada on the end of the hook, if you're a fisher, i suggest you stock up for the next 17 years!! :-D

We get cicadas south of Pittsburgh, PA. My cat went to smell one once... just to check it out and see what fell out of the tree, and one of it's legs went up his nose and both he and the bug were freaking out.


That is some Hi-larious stuff... :lol: :lol: :lol:

No cicadas in BC, thank god. I hate the little buggers. I heard they taste like asparagus... this true ray?

yea we got a bunch here too. While workin 5 floors up there are a bunch of cicadas flyin around hittin the windows and clinging on to the other building. Indiana is supposed to be hit the hardest by cicadas

I live in cincinnati, this is supposed to be one of the worst places in the us for cicadas....they are all over the place...good news tho, they are easy to catch, and are GREAT fishing bait...the fish always bite when there's a cicada on the end of the hook, if you're a fisher, i suggest you stock up for the next 17 years!! :-D
I'm from Cincy as well and they're kind of annoying. They're very loud in my yard and their dead little carcasses are all over the place.

Can someone post a pic of what they look like, us canadian folks, well maybe just me, haven't seen or heard of these things before

http://www.ent.iastate.edu/images/homoptera/cicada/17yrcicada.jpg
http://ipm.ncsu.edu/current_ipm/96PestNews/News1/cicad2.jpg

Indiana is supposed to be hit the hardest by cicadas


thats what I've heard too, but I have not seen or heard one yet.

yeah they are really bad here in milwaukee especially around july and august. i live next to the airport and sometimes i cant hear the planes cause they are so loud.

http://www.ent.iastate.edu/images/homoptera/cicada/17yrcicada.jpg
http://ipm.ncsu.edu/current_ipm/96PestNews/News1/cicad2.jpg
Thats it??? Maybe it's scarier in person

In Northern Virginia we have (on average) 1 million per acre. Our in the styx (where I live) I can't hear anything aside from them. We only get them every 17 years though so it's not that bad. But my internet is down at home so this is the only place I can get online sometimes so I have no distractions from them.

I hate these damn bugs.

They're only around once every 17 years??? what the sh!t fu*k type of bug is that :wtf: :lol:

What is the difference between a periodical cicada and annual cicada?
Cicadas in our area can easily be divided into two groups according to when they occur; those that appear every year (or annually) from the end of June to the middle of October and those that do not appear every year, but occur every13 or 17 years (or periodically) generally from the middle of May to the middle of June. There is also a difference in their appearance. Annual cicadas vary in size from a ¼ of an inch to almost three inches in size. They tend to be black, brown and green and have a green coloration along their wing margins. The periodical cicadas are generally all black with red eyes and orange wing margins and are generally an inch in length. Periodical and annual cicadas would rarely occur at the same time. Some annual species can begin calling as early as mid-June here in the Mid-Atlantic, however most species tend to call as individuals and not the famous huge chorus that the periodicals are known for. The annual cicadas would only begin to call after all the periodical cicadas have died off.


There's a bit more info for you Raz Kaz.

There's a bit more info for you Raz Kaz.
Thanks for the info. I still find it weird that they have 2 different kinds of these same insects. One that shows up yearly and the other once every 17 years. Only difference being theuir appearance. Still, not so scary looking as that wolf spider or the camel spider...

Cicadas aren't scary at all, anyone who is scared of em are prissy sissys. One of my co-workers is so prissy that she couldn't enter the building b/c there were a bunch at the door.

In Northern Virginia we have (on average) 1 million per acre. Our in the styx (where I live) I can't hear anything aside from them. We only get them every 17 years though so it's not that bad. But my internet is down at home so this is the only place I can get online sometimes so I have no distractions from them.

I hate these damn bugs.

Yea there are a bunch here, they are a nuisance. just right outside my work one women was talking on her cell phone, one cicada flew into her mouth LOL. She spit it out and started gaggin. They also like to stick to your tires for some reason, my cousin smooshed one on my car and the guts were all white, an hour later it became real white and a big area of my tires looked nasty, had to clean the gunk off.

I read an article that was particularly amusing about how cicadas are dangerous to children, it included descriptions of how kids often get injured running away from them or trying to kill them.
A few things that I remembered was a kid running into a wall trying to get away from a flying cicada, a kid chopping his toes off, trying to put one under a lawnmower, and a kid getting his hand smashed, when he tried to put one under the wheels of a moving car. Kids are dumb aren't they?

Ya, real dumb. I wish I still had my toes though...

Ya, real dumb. I wish I still had my toes though...
I feel ya man...damn those spontanious appearing walls
:banghead:

i also heard that they are bad for animals...it was in our local newspaper before the cicadas appeard and it said to watch out for your pets because they'll eat them and they can make your animal sick. they like to eat them because it taste like peanut butter so they keep eatting them and get REAL sick.

mmmmm, peanut butter :)

yeah i like peanut butter too, but you wont see me eatting no cicadas...better yet you wont see me eatting ANY bugs!