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Heyltslori
Member
09-15-2001
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 5:35 am
I've been reading about this, and while I am SO glad not to be living near where they are coming, I do find it interesting. Are any of you seeing them yet? How bad is it?
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 5:36 am
what are they? I haven't heard of this
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 5:48 am
We have cicadas, (for some reason I have always called them cady digs???) but not sure what brood x is.
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Heyltslori
Member
09-15-2001
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 6:07 am
Here is a link. Apparently every 17 years a brood of cicadas invades part of the eastern states. Sounds like a horror movie to me! lol CLICK
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Jed245
Member
11-01-2002
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 6:24 am
Lori we call them lotcus(sp?) here. The are GREAT fishing bait. :o) heheh. Noisy little things that fly around. Most of the time you'll find them bunched in the thousands on trees in the woods. Or bushes near your house. They really don't usually fly into you, but, if you walk into a tree or bush that's covered with them you won't be able to see for a few minutes. Not that they blind you or anything. Just a few hundred bugs flying around your head tend to blur vision. :o) I live in a prime place for cicadas. We don't usaually even see very many of them if any at all. But, we HEAR them!! heheh :o) It's a very irritating sound more of a rattling then a buzz. During the heat of the day and well into the night it's almost a constant buzz. I was 14 last time we had them, great fishing year. :o) They really don't do any kind of damage to anything.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 6:34 am
We have them every year. More of a nuisance than anything. They usually hit about the time the June bugs come.
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Essence
Member
01-12-2002
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 6:41 am
They are awful. I was a sophmore in highschool the last time they came out. They swarm everywhere, they get into your home, your car... anywhere. The noise is unbearable too. They aren't harmful and don't bite, they are just a real nuisance.. especially if you're afraid of bugs like I am. This particular type only lasts for about 6 weeks and don't come back for another 17 years. They are expected out anytime now. Lots of people have covered their young trees with cheesecloth or some other protective covering to keep them from being damaged.
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Jed245
Member
11-01-2002
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 8:30 am
OH yeah trees hehe... They do mess up trees a little bit. :o) Essence is right the noise is really really bad. If you have a job where you sleep in the early evening or during the day like I do. Then your likely gonna have some problems with these lil things. But, like I said.... great fishing bait. :o)
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Cassie
Member
07-15-2000
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 9:05 am
We get them every year here as well. (Call them locusts too, Jed.) But they're more like 3-4" long and look really mean, but they're not. The noise goes on and on and on, especially at night and never becomes "white noise." What we do get here every 7 or so years is a plague of caterpillars. (and I DO mean a plague!) When you come out in the morning, the tires on your car are covered with them wall-to-wall and the walls of the house are covered too. As you walk, they drop off things onto you. And if you step on them, ewww...putrid green stuff squirts everywhere. I hate it when they come around. One of my neighbors is phobic about them (calls them "The Worms" lol) and has to leave town for 3 or so weeks when they come.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 10:20 am
Of all years to move to Louisville we had to pick the year the bugs come. *L* Sure glad we're not moving to the country until August!
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 3:20 pm
They can grow to the size of a cow! 
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 4:05 pm
Cows? That's ok then I'm used to cows. *L* Used to Locusts too but not hoards of them. Hey Ketchuplover have you seen the new flavor of Pringles? Ketchup Blasted. *L*
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Weinermr
Member
08-18-2001
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 4:19 pm
They call them cicowdas.
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 4:46 pm
Katydids & cicadas are two different things I think. Locust is another word for a swarm of katydids, cos they are grasshoppers. Cicadas are winged but aren't grasshoppers....lol..confusing? Lol, Ketch & Weinermr. If those things can fly, we're in BIG trouble!
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 5:19 pm
Rupert is right. Locusts are really grasshoppers. I did a report on Brood X for my update a few weeks ago. Brood X is on a 17 year cycle and will number in the billions. There are other cycles of cicadas on 17, 13 or 10 year schedules (and more). This is the biggest. They will invade the mid Atlantic and go all the way to Tennessee; Indiana in the north and with a few sprinkles in Michigan and Missouri.
And the pesky little critter....

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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 5:23 pm
No cicadas here yet. The newspeople are predicting next week. Nasty things too and loud.
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 5:34 pm
Yes...very loud and I dunno why but it always sounds like the noise is coming from the telephone wires! Is that where them critters hang out?
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Ddr
Member
08-19-2001
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 5:53 pm
I think we have these in Louisiana. Growing up we always called them "wee-wees" because of the sound they made. 
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 6:14 pm
Roflmao...a wee-wee is sumpin' else entirely here, Ddr 
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 6:20 pm
Ddr, you do have one of the cycles of cicadas down in Louisiana. Perhaps more. Fortunately for you, you don't have this one.......yet.
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 6:26 pm
Found one you do have, Ddr.....Brood XXIII which is on a 13 year cycle. Don't you feel special?
due again in the year 2015
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 6:32 pm
My mom had these last year and it was almost impossible to sit outside and have a conversation. Ya'll know how we like to sit on the front porch and talk and it was almost impossible with the noise that these critters make.
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Ddr
Member
08-19-2001
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 8:03 pm
Thanks Tess!
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 8:20 pm
On the news they said Louisville was being "terrorized" by cidadas. They showed one house where the guy was tip-toeing around trying to miss them, and still got a few. They were all over his yard and porch. Luckily none where I live...yet. I don't like bugs. 
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 8:25 pm
hmmm, anything like gnats? one fly buzzing around me is annoying enough :>). this must be foreign to California? (okay, no smart-ass answers....like, "yeah, abby, just like brains" lol)
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