CICADAAAAAAAAAS!

[Dennis S]

Does anyone else have them? These are in south Arkansas right now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magicicada

[jdc]

eww.

[Dennis S]

Here's a map:



It didn't have a legend, so I don't know what the green part is.

[Zoidberg]

Dennis S wrote:
Here's a map:
It didn't have a legend, so I don't know what the green part is.

That's the areas where they're expected to arm themselves.

[binky]

We had them in the Chicago area about six years ago. They were so numerous that people would run from their cars to get inside only to find one or two hanging on to their clothes. Dogs went crazy eating them. But then towards the end of summer, the numbers dwindled, and you would see one or two flying around. Seemed like a sad and lonely sight these lone survivors that didn't mate at the end of season. A columnist in the Chicago tribune printed a humorous "ten lessons we learned from the cicadas":

http://passionatelycurious.typepad.com/p...aning.html

Bink.

[Buzz]

I think the tribes had to eat them on a Survivor challenge...

or somebody had to eat 'em on a reality show, Big Brother, Fear Factor...

[cbelt3]

We usually get some of them every year.... but every now and then we get a HUGE hatching. The carapaces they leave behind are awesome. Big.. Alien.. BUG !

[haikuman]

I often hear them when walking in the Cemetery here in the RPI at first I thought I was walking with the ghosts *(:>* Sometimes I still think I walk with them also ... *(:>*

Rudie

[Markiscool]

My parents have them outside at their house. The noise gets so bad you can't sit out on the deck. They hit Alabama in huge numbers every 13 years and are horrible the entire time they are here. The noise is like a warning that they are coming in to prepare.

-M