Cicada Apocalypse
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Annihilator
Hellion
We have been spared here so far, not seen a one. but this guy hasn't. check out the dead ones around the tree.
Old_Me
SAINT
tell you what, i'd not be leaving my garage door open. reminds of my car repair days when a cricket or 2 would get into the repair bays.....what an annoying sound they were.....We have been spared here so far, not seen a one. but this guy hasn't. check out the dead ones around the tree.
i'd be having all my windows, and doors shut, and the radio, or stereo playing loud.
i know, put huge speakers outside, and play an opera LOUD.......those SOBs would be flying to Russia.
Jfal
Hellcat
Odd...I remember growing up near Milwaukee and would hear cicadas in summer-time, but they sounded a bit different than the ones in the video. I also worked in Chicago-area summer of 1991 and the cicadas were intensely loud...and sounded different than the video. Maybe it is/was a different strain of cicada? Maybe I remember there are different strains and some sound different. Yes, I'm way too lazy to google it. That many dead bugs will stink after a day or 2...
Talyn
SAINT
I ate "one" once when I was a kid back east during an outbreak in the early-70's.
Roasted it over a camp fire & it tasted like eating a burnt rubber tire. One & done.
There are different species of them coast to coast but the ones out west here are a none issue compared to the hordes back east.
Roasted it over a camp fire & it tasted like eating a burnt rubber tire. One & done.
There are different species of them coast to coast but the ones out west here are a none issue compared to the hordes back east.
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SaltyMonkey
Guest
I’ve heard them here about 100 yards away. Annoying? Yes, but it’s temporary. To be honest I’d rather hear them than the sound of cars constantly going by.
Bassbob
Emissary
They have worn out their welcome here.
I saved one today. I was *** up with my head in a hole working a gas service and while I was looking for my Lyco machine This cicada was screaming at me. In the hole it just echoed. I spied him. First thought was to smash him to shut him up. It was a fleeting thought. I picked him up, clawed my way back up out of the hole and tossed him in the air. He flew off and told me thanks as he was leaving.
Nevertheless, I am tired of them. It's not the noise, I hear that constantly anyway. I'm just tired of them slamming into my head, crawling up my pant leg and head butting the windshield of my car.
I saved one today. I was *** up with my head in a hole working a gas service and while I was looking for my Lyco machine This cicada was screaming at me. In the hole it just echoed. I spied him. First thought was to smash him to shut him up. It was a fleeting thought. I picked him up, clawed my way back up out of the hole and tossed him in the air. He flew off and told me thanks as he was leaving.
Nevertheless, I am tired of them. It's not the noise, I hear that constantly anyway. I'm just tired of them slamming into my head, crawling up my pant leg and head butting the windshield of my car.
belladonna
Ronin
Thankfully we don't get them up here...but we do get an overabundance of crickets in late summer. We usually get at least one in the house and several in the garage.
