Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 (edited) https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/04/10/world/cicadas-2024-broods-xix-xiii-scn Edited April 14 by Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 They'd be scarier if they were here...and if the were six feet long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calamity Kris Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 I'm glad I don't live in the St. Louis area any more. That would be deafening. Gratefully, they aren't scheduled to be this far south.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 I was in an area which had an emergence on the East Coast a long time back. An amazing experience. Can't recall any problem issues with the bugs / humans. When it was over, there were big dead bugs everywhere, in some cases almost as if they had been washed up by a tide. Have some photos somewhere, slides because it was long before digital. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Insect chorus, I think it’s kinda cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 I remember an infestation. It was really loud for a couple weeks and then softer and softer until the fall when the remaining bachelors just died. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 We had a huge infestation in 1983-84 and it was loud!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 none of these invasions have to happen if we protect ourselves - we have imported so many that were meant to defend but have only presented new and bigger problems , i wonder when our boarders will be defended ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 When I lived in Concord, NC and worked in Charlotte I can recall all the trepidation over the Cicadas coming out of stasis(?). It’s funny, I recall them only buzzing / singing after temps girl into the 90’s. The noise didn’t bother me at all. Perhaps it was a noise frequency that my tinnitus could get along with. When I was a kid in PA my brother and I would climb trees looking for their molted exoskeletons (skin). I recall that we had about 20 of them collected. When my Mom discovered them she made us dispose of them. We hid them for the later use of scaring people with them. Did you know that if you put one of these on a random church lady’s shoulder she will squeal loud enough to stop the minister in mid sentence and disrupt the goings on in the church for a few minutes? Did you also know the best way to detect the two little boys that pulled an epic prank in church is to look for the two that just cannot contain their laughter? Did you also know that oak makes a much more formidable paddle than pine? Still makes me laugh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 So! When do we get issued the recipes for them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Slim SASS #24733 Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 Watab: I don't rent out any rooms at my house so I don't have any "boarders" to defend against any invaders, Cicadas or otherwise. You might want to read the story again also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 12 minutes ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said: So! When do we get issued the recipes for them? https://www.bonappetit.com/uncategorized/article/how-to-cook-cicadas-according-to-3-richmond-va-chefs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderRiverCowboy Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 I am still waiting on that winter of death I was promised years ago and has not occurred. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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