Cicada Mania!

For me.

I had a great cicada time, little bar in jersey city called the golden cicada, great little bar just up from our campground.
 
4barrel said:
This is what gets rid of them. They start out as a white grub worm and live in the ground for years. These are in my area. I though they were here years ago but the dr. told me my ears were ringing.:)
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People get frightened by cicada killer wasps because they're so big, but they're pretty harmles unless you sound like a cicada or you try to grab one.

It's a brutal battle to see. The cicada killer wasp grabs the cicada and starts stinging it multiple times. The cicada struggles to get away and screams until the toxin takes effect. The sting paralyzs the cicada, but doesn't kill it. The wasp takes the living, but paralyzed cicada back to the den to be consumed later.
 
Ziggy2525 said:
The cicada killer wasp grabs the cicada and starts stinging it multiple times. The cicada struggles to get away and screams until the toxin takes effect. The sting paralyzs the cicada, but doesn't kill it. The wasp takes the living, but paralyzed cicada back to the den to be consumed later.
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This is the basic plot of 90% of the creature horror movies. Throw in a young Signory Weaver and you have a $100 million blockbuster.
 
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Ziggy2525 said:
The cicada killer wasp grabs the cicada and starts stinging it multiple times. The cicada struggles to get away and screams until the toxin takes effect. The sting paralyzs the cicada, but doesn't kill it. The wasp takes the living, but paralyzed cicada back to the den to be consumed later.
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My buddy married one of those once.
 
What a..

Ziggy2525 said:
People get frightened by cicada killer wasps because they're so big, but they're pretty harmles unless you sound like a cicada or you try to grab one.

It's a brutal battle to see. The cicada killer wasp grabs the cicada and starts stinging it multiple times. The cicada struggles to get away and screams until the toxin takes effect. The sting paralyzs the cicada, but doesn't kill it. The wasp takes the living, but paralyzed cicada back to the den to be consumed later.
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What a horror show.:eek:


Cicada killers need to swarm at the same time cicadas do.:confused:
 
Had them in Baltimore in 1953 when I was 10 years old. We'd catch them and tie sewing thread to a leg and fly them in circles around us; dogfights until we tangled thread, move toward the house and watch them smack into the brick wall, launch them from slingshots, stomp them. They provided hours of amusement for a bunch of little boys.
 
The 17yr. Locust arrived a couple of weeks ago here in central Ohio, the ground under our maple tree in our backyard looked like someone had fired several thousand .38 cal., slugs into the ground. There were no locusts in sight, or heard. There has been no activity since. This seems strange to me. Surely that won't be the last of the predicted hatch. Any comments?
 
Rustyt1953 said:
They will definitely sneak into the house as I have three youngins here that can't close doors and having nine cats, I can pretty much write the drapes and blinds off.
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You could duct tape every window and door shut and they'd still find a way in.

My first house in Harwell "Cinti" had an old gas fireplace we never used. Multitudes came thru there. Our cat loved it.
 
Cobroller said:
Don't have to wait 17 years, I hear that cicada noise every waking hour. Wear ear protection folks.
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It's weird, I had it too for a couple of years. When it first happened, it was the middle of winter, and I heard what sure sounded like Cicadas singing. I knew that wasn't possible, so I soon realized it was tinnitus and the speed of the singing was my pulse. It was only in my right ear. I went to the ENT doc due to hearing loss in my right ear that required "popping" to solve for a very short time, and ended up having a tube put in my eardrum. No more Cicadas, but no more useful hearing in my right ear. All in all, I wish the Cicada singing would come back. The tube has to fall out soon, it's going on 18 months.
 
So, how do they taste? Bon Appetit says cicadas are similar to soft-shell crab, "but with subtle overtones of boiled peanuts, the kind only a backroads gas station can really do right."
My interest is now piqued.
Question? Does the entire population show up every 17 years or are they speced out with a different crop showing up each year? This has alwaysd bothered me.....
 
I've been paying attention for the last two hatches. First time, driving up I-71 about 20 miles South of Mansfield, Ohio the woods gets close to both sides of the freeway. Along that stretch of road the Cicadas were so loud, you couldn't hear the noisy truck laboring to get up the hills!

Last time, I was shooting Sporting Clays right on the Marrow/Richland county line. with ear plugs on, you could be standing by a guy with a 12 gauge a not hear it go off, you had to watch it or feel the concussion!

The smallest clay is 60mm, that course liked to launch them full speed coming over the crest of a hill. then they would be silhouetted against the sky. The wasps would try to catch them. It was normally an easy shot, but during Cicada season we livened things up. How many wasps could you bag in one shot and still break the clay! (I thought I had 2, but the score keeper credited me with 3!)
 
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