WHAT THE HECK IS THIS???
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I miss the cicadas. I'm probably almost alone in being disappointed that I'm going to have to wait another 14 years to have another big swarm come by. My apartment at the time was right next to a large park so I could hear the things going pretty much non-stop. Oh well.
hummm... so im listening to bugs sudicing eachother?? hott!
JK!JK!
99.9 percent of the time you hear any bug, that's whats going on..
if theyre not looking for another one, theyre trying to keep them away
hence crickets and other noisemaking bugs
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Wrong kinda locust for plagues I'm afraid. These little cicada live in the ground for years, sucking at the roots of trees. Then one day, burrow up to the light, shed their skin on the bark of a tree, and fly off to live about two weeks. Just time enough to mate and die. It's either a five or seven year cicada... Meaning it's been in the ground for five or seven years. I hear em at night around here.
yep. we've got seventeen year cicadas also by me. this year just happened to be that year. my area is a "newer" area, so there wasnt as many as the middle of town that has been there for decades, but they were still crawling all over the place. it was estimated that there were 500,000 to 1 million per heavily wooded acre. now thats nasty. every time you take a step its *crunch* *crunch**crunch*.
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I wish I was a fish I wish.
They come up every year around my house. They leave those exoskeletons all over the place.
They also don't have any mouth parts to eat anything with so they literally starve to death. Like someone else said they pretty much just hang around long enought to attract a mate, do the deed and die. Harmless really unless you catch one in the face on your Harley.
My cat used to get fat eating them.
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They also don't have any mouth parts to eat anything with so they literally starve to death. Like someone else said they pretty much just hang around long enought to attract a mate, do the deed and die. Harmless really unless you catch one in the face on your Harley.
My cat used to get fat eating them.
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