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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Monday, May 24, 2004 - 8:48 am
We spent most of Sat and Sun driving around Louisville looking at houses, trying to find somewhere to move when our lease is up. I had heard Cicadas were like locusts and figured those who couldn't put up with the should just wasn't used to "country and small town sounds". Boy was I WRONG! Things are totally TERRIBLE. The nose they make is just horrendous! I couldn't imagine having to listen to them from sunup to sundown. I about went crazy just the few hours we were in the Ville each day. They don't bite but they were everywhere, and if you walked through them flying it was disgusting. One place we stopped to look at I refused to go in because the sidewalk and grass were covered completley and I didn't want to hear them crunch. I don't want to touch them! Unless Tess and JBean want me to make and send them some cookies - I guess I could get enough for that. 
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 12:21 pm
Some pics of those noisy guys hatching.... http://aerdna.win.net/livejournal/cicadapage.htm
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Friday, May 28, 2004 - 10:33 am
Gee, I wish my scanner was working. They showed a picture in the paper, of an Air Force Master Sergeant standing at attention at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland yesterday, as President Bush boarded Air Force One. Well, on his neck is sitting a cicada, as pretty as you please! It says the Washington area has been inundated with them.
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Sunday, May 30, 2004 - 11:11 am
Saturday, May 29, 2004 17 uses for a dead cicada -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As the sound and the flurry fade, we're left with dead bugs. Here are 17 things to do with them By Peggy O'Farrell The Cincinnati Enquirer So you're up to your eyebrows in loud, proud, partying cicadas. Give it a few weeks and you'll be up to your eyebrows in cicada carcasses, which can last a surprisingly long time. Cicada guru Dr. Gene Kritsky has seen them last a year or two, especially those buried or sheltered from the elements. Emily Stoker 7, of Anderson Township, poses wearing a necklace she made using cicada exoskeletons from her friend Emily Edgington's back yard in Anderson Township. (Illustration by Brandi Stafford/ The Cincinnati Enquirer) To celebrate Brood X's eventual demise, here are 17 uses (one for each year until they come back) for a dead cicada: 1) Bait. They're free. They're plentiful. They freeze well. But we're begging you: Label the container in BIG letters. 2) Replacements for the missing markers in the Monopoly game. 3) Mulch. The hard shells, made of a material called chitin, can help block weed growth and hold in moisture. When the cicadas start to decay, they can be used as fertilizer - just like all organic material. 4) Countless crafts projects: A little hot glue, some glitter, some paint, and you've got folk art. We expect a primer from Martha Stewart any day. 5) Unique earrings. Attach to ready-made dangle earring findings, or use a needle and thread to string them into necklaces and belts, too. 6) Cat toys. Just be sure to vacuum under the furniture when playtime ends. 7) Math manipulatives. Help the kids learn counting skills.For instance, if I have 12 cicadas and the cat bats one under the sofa, how many are left? 8) Marking the baselines at Great American Ball Park. (It could shake up the Cubs next time.) 9) Make money. Type in "cicada" or "Brood X" on eBay and you'll find plenty of would-be entrepreneurs selling the bugs. One seller, from Corydon, Ind., sold four dried, unmounted specimens for $21.50. Don't laugh - there were nine bidders. (Note: Make sure the bugs are dead: to ship live bugs, you need a permit from the U.S. Agriculture Department or you're violating the Plant Pest Act of 1957.) 10) Cheap stuffing for cornhole bags. Stuff them in, stitch them up, and start tossing. Just make sure they're dead before you stuff: a bag sneaking off the board could give a player an unfair advantage. 11) Slightly stiff cicadas make excellent replacement birdies for a rousing game of badminton. And if an overzealous player shoots one onto the roof, the game goes on; there are plenty more to take its place. 12) Macrame beads. Work them into your next planter for an earthy touch. 13) Plastic alternative. The aforementioned chitin, the material that makes up the hard outer shell of cicadas, lobsters, cockroaches and other critters, is a structural polysaccharide and could be used as a biodegradable material to make containers that need to last only temporarily, Kritsky says. Sounds like another money-maker to us. 14) Collect some floral foam and branches and make a summer centerpiece for your table. Glue cicadas to plastic picks and pop them in. Watch your dinner guests jump in surprise when they spot them during the appetizer course. 15) Similarly, glue them together to make a wreath for the front door. 16) Decorate your cheap flip-flops by attaching cicadas with hot glue for a customized pair of summer 2004 sandals. 17) Silence. Blessed, lovely, wonderful silence. Multiply the silence generated by one big, dead bug, and you've got pre-cicada Cincinnati.

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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, May 30, 2004 - 2:49 pm
LOL, RB!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Sunday, May 30, 2004 - 2:51 pm
They actually aren't as bad this year as they were 17yrs ago. But it's still early.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, May 30, 2004 - 10:33 pm
Mocha, you know you are getting old when you can actually remember an occurence like the cicadas 17 years ago. Wait until you just turn around and another 17 years has gone by, and you recall Juju pointing this out, and you will swear it can't actually be 17 YEARS!!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, May 31, 2004 - 8:51 am
Oh dear.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, May 31, 2004 - 9:34 am
That pic looks like what we call June bugs out here. I HATE them! They fly and are the dumbest things, they fly right into your hair! It is the weirdest thing, June 1st at dusk they come! (on damn! thats today!) then in the morning they are gone until dusk the next night....this continues all thru June then July 1st they disappear. I'd like to know what their purpose is and why do they just come for one month? Another thing I have heard their life span is 24 hrs, why don't I see them all over the ground the next day? I am petrified of bugs and these scare me the most. As of tonight, I do not open the door or go outside after dusk! Dylan knows my fear and knows the rules!! lol...last year around July 2nd I went outside at night and he yelled 'Mommy!!! it's dark!!!' LOL
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, May 31, 2004 - 9:36 am
whew! I just realized I have one more day! I also realized Dylan has a game tomarrow night!!!!!! it should be over by 730 so I might be ok, if not, I will be sitting in the car!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, May 31, 2004 - 9:42 am
Those are actually how the dead cicadas that weren't fully formed look I think. The live flying ones look different. Bigger, black with red eyes and huge wings. And they are out in the dark and the light.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, May 31, 2004 - 10:27 am
I need Jmm! she would know all about june bugs! She can find info on anything!
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Jmm
Member
08-16-2002
| Monday, May 31, 2004 - 8:18 pm
Here you go, Pamy. June Bugs
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, May 31, 2004 - 8:35 pm
Ahhhh Mrs D rocks!!!!! Thanks!!!
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Starshine40
Member
07-30-2002
| Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 2:23 pm
Here's a link my son sent me with all kinds of info about the cicadas. He lives in Covington, KY just across the river from Cincinnati. http://www.fox19.com/Global/category.asp?C=52631&nav=0zHEMrHk
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