Cicadas

I remember the last time they came and I can't believe it has been 17 years already... man time flies when you get older...

But this is the year and they are coming.. anyone else expecting them?

http://saltthesandbox.org/cicada_hunt/SeventeenYearLocust.htm

http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/entomology/444-276/444-276.html

 

Remember the old wives tale (Ray Bradbury used it in Dandelion Wine) that if you count the number of times a cicada buzzes in 15 seconds and add 39 to that number, you will get the exact temperature at that moment.... I remember doing this.. :ashamed001

 

When the majority of them have hatched, they sound like the flying saucers did in the old sci-fi movies. Initially very interesting, but after a few days, the sound gets on your nerves.


Marty

 

I hate the sound those things make, I hope they don't come to Colorado..

 

Wait a minute, I remember when these things were around last time and no way has it been 17 years allready. Whoa!!!! Now I feel old!!!!

 

Our major cicada event was two years back, and they were all over! Since then a couple of wooded areas that they were in got "developed," so we might see as many the next time around.

We do smaller emergences of them every year. When I lived in the southwest, every year seemed to be a major cicada year.

 

We had them here in Maryland about 4 years now. came and gone, thankgawd.