This Spring: A trillion cicadas to arrive!

[Rustyt1953]

According to the FDA and USDA I unknowingly consume over a pound of bugs every year. Also science has proven that flies "download" every time they land.

Shellfish are nothing more than aquatic shop-vacs.

Look up "Normal microbiota".

 

[johngalt]

Ah yes, memories of being pelted in the face on the Loveland bike trail!

 

[Rustyt1953]

Ah yes, memories of being pelted in the face on the Loveland bike trail!

And driving your car over Pop Rocks and Rice Krispies.

 

[soFlaNative]

Crabs anyone?

 

[Rustyt1953]

Crabs anyone?

Not since my hippie days.

 

[pharman]

Food for fish in your pond!

Take a regular size brown lunch bag and fill the bag with these critters...crinkle the bag shut loosely...throw bag in your pond and let the pond water slowly open the bag...your fish will go NUTS eating them...especially if you have catfish or largemouth bass..it is a sight to behold...looks like an attack of a bunch of piranhas...

 

[CH4]

A trillion?
Who counted them?

 

[SMSgt]

Wouldn't eat rice bugs, won't eat cicadas. Nope.

 

[sophie]

Haven’t heard a Locust in years now.

 

[jbull380]

WEF food. Eat zee bugs.

 

[ladder13]

Cicada’s and love bugs oh my.

 

[jbull380]

I have really bad tinnitus. I hear locusts 24/7.

 

[Golddollar]

A vendor friend brought some grasshoppers or crickets sauteed in butter and garlic to a gun show. He was eating them and offered them to me. They were actually pretty good.

 

[arjay]

I hear them 24/7. It's how my tinnitus presents itself. Welcome to my world.

Mines a very faint ringing lol (thank god!)

 

[boykinlp]

Here in South Carolina we last had a hatch in 2011 I think. At the time, I was driving a box truck making deliveries to convenience stores. I’ll never forget all of them smashing into my truck as I drove. I also remember that the first thing every morning a store employee would have to sweep up the hundreds of cicadas that had flown into the store’s front windows the night before and died. I’m not looking forward to seeing them again. Of course, since I am retired, I don’t HAVE to see many of them!!
Larry

 

[Rustyt1953]

They are incredibly loud. Sleep is nigh on impossible.

The only thing louder during their emergence is the air raid siren that comes from Ruthie when they land in her hair.

 

[kozmic]

After looking at the national debt should we really be scared of a measly trillion cicadas?

 

[NYlakesider]

After looking at the national debt should we really be scared of a measly trillion cicadas?

Well I would rather a major invasion of cicadas than stink bugs!-

 

[ladder13]

After looking at the national debt should we really be scared of a measly trillion cicadas?

If they have student debt, yes.

 

[oldbrownhat]

My gf remembered a cicada swarm when she was doing her post-doc in Iowa City in the early 2000s. She found them fascinating. (OTOH, when she was young in Australia, she and her mom drove through a locust swarm, which was a whole 'nother thing entirely. Clogged up everything.)

She just sent me this online pic from a ceramicist in NH who has created art nouveau pottery for Cicada Sunday, which is apparently this Sunday.