I WANT THEM ALL DEAD. ALL THEY DO IS MAKE NOISE AND FORNICATE!

Oh yes...they will die. Give me three weeks, and hopefully, they'll all be dead!


No, I'm not talking about teenagers, I'm talking about Cicadas...I don't like the darn things. They sit up in the trees, all day long, making this terrible, 60 decibel noise (sometimes louder). For background, northern Kentucky has seventeen-year Cicadas...they sit in the ground for 17 years, and then hatch, come up, make noise, mate, lay eggs, and die, all within the space of maybe a month....

You mean you really weren't talking about teenagers? :D

Don't forget the nasty moltings they leave all over the trees. Or is that just the Pennsylvanian variety?

lol, they are so annoying that you have made 2 posts about them. :D

I fixed that...and yes, they leave their shells, I'm pretty sure...ugh...the noise is enough...I can hear them right now...like a constant "sh" sound, and at a high enough frequency that they prove REALLY annoying...if I can, I'll get a recording for you all...

Oh, heard about them, supposed to be swarms of them all over the lower states. My mom told me about them, how they pretty much covered everything, with themselves or their shells.

Nasty things if you ask me [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I heard pretty much the same complaints about me and my friends when I was growing up... :D

Mmmmmm.... can't take this anywhere else. ;)

What are Cicadas?

*Does Google image search*

ARRRGGHHHH! Get them away! Foul beasts! I respect your determination to wipe them out, Ilander, but I think this may require more than one person. At 2:00PM tomorrow, look outside for a white truck... I will bring the shotguns...

JUST AS I SUSPECTED!
http://www.cicadaville.com/CicadaGiantwithkids.jpg

Ilander that is too funny. Like I said some where before. Come to Canada the extreme cold kills everything. But the downside is frostbite. :D

I saw Late night Show with David Letterman recently were he had a "Insect expert" that had made some dishes out of the shells, David said they tasted like Walnuts... [img]smile.gif[/img]

I think LadZekke was having the bugs visit too! I can imagine it's not much fun having them all over the yard when you leave your house! And I haven't heard them, but I'm told they get loud!

thank goodness i don't go under trees in the first place (ticks!) secondly i haven't heard any yet this spring, may be too cool here yet. soon tho i'm sure. but that is why i have a loud radio! and loud kids...geez...

LOL!

Mayor: Why aren't the cicadas all gone?

Police chief: They haven't finished their... uh... duty.

Mayor: Why? What's the problem?

Chief: Well, it's RevRuby's kids... they're making so much noise that the cicadas can't hear each other to try to mate, so they keep running in circles... :D

No offense intended, RR, but I've got kids too... and it could happen :D

Actually, my area was supposed to have a Lot show up, but there are none here.

(See what you can accomplish with a little sugar, lots of tiny pictures of pecan pie, and free bus tickets to Kentucky?)

yes, we should all get together here in the south, and drive them north!!!!

only my kids, i swear!

no stormy, we in the north have enough. in fact we have enough earwigs too so stop sending them!

how about I send you these friggin crickets then??

[ 06-01-2004, 07:13 PM: Message edited by: Stormymystic ]

When I lived in New Jersey, it was cicadas. Now that I live in San Antonio, it is crickets. The Pizza Hut by the house has bright lights, so they gather there; it looks like a sea of black with all of the crickets (one big mating orgy). I hate both of them equally, but cicadas edge out the crickets. In New Jersey I didn't have AC, so I would have the windows open and be unable to sleep from all of the noise.

that is why I hate the crickets, all I can hear is the high pitched chirping they do all spring and summer, they do make good bait though, love to catch them, and hook them [img]smile.gif[/img]

heh, since I live pretty far up north... as far as you can get... actually, the only loud animal around here are my neighbors cats... I swear I sometimes wake up at night and it sounds like someone is tearing the balls off Satan in a megaphone-factory...

[ 06-01-2004, 09:42 PM: Message edited by: Jorath Calar ]

Hahaha....cicadas are just harmless insects....sometimes when they chirp they are just predicting the rain.

I second the motion of the Southerners herding all the cicadas and crickets to the North. Yankees!! [img]tongue.gif[/img] :D

hey not all northerners are yankees, altho i am proudly a yankee. but i think my husband would take offense.

btw her is an idahoan spud

[ 06-01-2004, 10:41 PM: Message edited by: RevRuby ]

have no idea what you just said there rev [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[ 06-01-2004, 10:47 PM: Message edited by: Stormymystic ]

I have the impression that that was her husband...and Dron, they haven't even shown up at your house yet! Their all up her, tormenting Cincinatians...serves 'em right I suppose... :::grumbles something obscene about Porkopolis:::

I was walking with my sister to my car yesterday (I was going to drive her somewhere), and literally had to shout to be heard above them...It's just like static, only louder...like what the alarm-clock radio blares when someone has screwed up the dial...

Ilander I know what you are going through. There are litterly millions all over my neighborhood. When I was riding my bike downhill one nearly went into my mouth then another slammed into my neck and I almost fell off my bike. And when I flicked them off one of them made a loud screeching noise! I thought they were cool at first but I agree they are annoying! And they smell like crap when they die. There is a graveyard in my backyard and it's filled with the dead stench of cicadas.

<font color=pink>The problem in my neighborhood is earwigs. A couple weeks ago I wandered home from a concert at 2am to the sliding glass door down here. There was lots of...crunching beneath my feet, and after turning on the light I saw the ground was black with the little bastards. SO sick...I was trying to give my horse water on another occasion, wondering why nothing was coming out of the hose...well after shaking it, a lot of earwigs came out, and THEN the water...yuck! Sometimes I catch them walking on the wall, they even fall on me from the ceiling...ick ick!</font>

Wanna kill the birds? I recommend one of these bad boys:

http://www.villainsupply.com/heavyarms.html
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Or, if those are too big for you (wuss) I recommend one of these:
http://www.villainsupply.com/smallarms.html
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I apologize for giving the impression that NJ and NY shipped all of their cicadas to the south. NJ is remarkably cicada-free however.

(And I definately don't apologise for the the Yankees stuffing some Baltimore Birds last night 8-7. Go Yankees!!!)

You've just cured me of drinking straight from the hose, LB... [img]graemlins/1puke.gif[/img]

Muhahah!! good one, and true, I hear the damn BASE every night. (Let me rant on this--- guys--base is OLD. very 90's. And you'll be VERY deaf by the time you are 35. seriously.) rant off. [img]smile.gif[/img]

I lived in Louisville, Kentucky--Big city, and I remember when I was young, hmmm 1987, yes... 17 years ago... I remember those things. Are they the things that start up, go rhaaaaaraaaa rhaaaaraaabuzzzzzzz, and stop for a sec, then start back up? I remember my Dad showing me the bug shells they left on the tree, and I kept one. Don't have it now. [img]smile.gif[/img] But yeah, I remember those. I was always wondering where they were, I would always look for them on the tree bark every summer since, and never saw any. 17 years... long time to go without sex. gawd. ;)

Muhahah!! good one, and true, I hear the damn BASE every night. (Let me rant on this--- guys--base is OLD. very 90's. And you'll be VERY deaf by the time you are 35. seriously.) rant off. [img]smile.gif[/img]
</font>[/QUOTE]<font color=pink>Come to San Diego, there isn't a Honda Civic on the road without some powerful bass blaring out the window :D Oh, that goes for trucks and SUVs too, including mine ;) </font>

ok that was me typing, "her" was a typo it should say "he" he is an idahoan spud. dissect the word idahoan "idaho"an he is from idaho the state famous for potatoes aka spuds.

earwigs...ewwe....i hate those things so much, i am convinced that bugs are out to get me, especially them!!!!!!!! they haunt me.