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« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2021, 10:39:42 AM » |
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Oh to be a cicada, what bliss it must be to sleep for 17 years, wake up, crawl up in a tree and scream.
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« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2021, 10:45:14 AM » |
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Oh to be a cicada, what bliss it must be to sleep for 17 years, wake up, crawl up in a tree and scream.
Scream for females... lay your seed, then die |
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« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2021, 10:46:35 AM » |
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Oh to be a cicada, what bliss it must be to sleep for 17 years, wake up, crawl up in a tree and scream.
Scream for females... lay your seed, then die Story of my life  |
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« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2021, 10:47:50 AM » |
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cannot be too much worse than say the mayfly hatch some years along the Mississippi River causing roads along the river to be covered with them slip/sliding car/boat/cycle tires all over.
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« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2021, 11:02:13 AM » |
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worse yet a praying mantis. If I were a male mantis I would pray no female comes close to me
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« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2021, 11:03:05 AM » |
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cannot be too much worse than say the mayfly hatch some years along the Mississippi River causing roads along the river to be covered with them slip/sliding car/boat/cycle tires all over.
Burlington Iowa where I grew up they had to remove them with payloaders and dump trucks and it reeked. |
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« Reply #7 on: May 05, 2021, 11:04:13 AM » |
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This must be some sort of conspiracy - those noisy bugs were out in force all the way to and from Asheville InZane 2018. Does 17 cicadas years equal 3 human bean years?  |
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« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2021, 01:55:39 PM » |
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This must be some sort of conspiracy - those noisy bugs were out in force all the way to and from Asheville InZane 2018. Does 17 cicadas years equal 3 human bean years? Nihilists don't care. We care about nothing. It's exhausting. |
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« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2021, 06:43:20 PM » |
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This must be some sort of conspiracy - those noisy bugs were out in force all the way to and from Asheville InZane 2018. Does 17 cicadas years equal 3 human bean years? Nihilists don't care. We care about nothing. It's exhausting. Hahahaha |
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« Reply #10 on: May 05, 2021, 07:04:11 PM » |
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Speaking of these squawking tree bugs reminded me. At the Morgantown Inzane, I was riding with a guy or three, and one of them told me he thought his bike was making a funny noise, could I listen. I did and couldn't hear anything. So we all shut down, and then we all heard the tree bugs. I think that's what you've been hearing.
I think you're right.I haven't heard any yet, but I've got holes all over my property. The funny thing is, when they really get going, they get all synched up, just like riding with a bunch of Valks with chopped exhaust and cobras. First time I was riding with a bunch of those, I thought something was wrong with my bike.  (oo-ahh, ooo-ahhh, Wawawawa) ha ha it's easier to say than write Here's another question. How does someone decide their life's calling is to be an entomologist? (bug doctor) Now A gynecologist, I can understand. |
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« Reply #11 on: May 05, 2021, 07:23:17 PM » |
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Speaking of these squawking tree bugs reminded me. At the Morgantown Inzane, I was riding with a guy or three, and one of them told me he thought his bike was making a funny noise, could I listen. I did and couldn't hear anything. So we all shut down, and then we all heard the tree bugs. I think that's what you've been hearing.
I think you're right.I haven't heard any yet, but I've got holes all over my property. The funny thing is, when they really get going, they get all synched up, just like riding with a bunch of Valks with chopped exhaust and cobras. First time I was riding with a bunch of those, I thought something was wrong with my bike. (oo-ahh, ooo-ahhh, Wawawawa) ha ha it's easier to say than write Here's another question. How does someone decide their life's calling is to be an entomologist? (bug doctor) Now A gynecologist, I can understand. Thet became a bug doc cuz they failed human anatomy?  Just guessin!  RIDE SAFE. |
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« Reply #12 on: May 05, 2021, 07:33:41 PM » |
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Here's another question. How does someone decide their life's calling is to be an entomologist? (bug doctor) Now A gynecologist, I can understand.
I think I’d much prefer to be a bug doctor than a vaginaologist. |
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« Reply #13 on: May 06, 2021, 04:47:22 AM » |
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Maybe they wanted to study the cicadian rhythm?? |
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« Reply #14 on: May 06, 2021, 06:22:14 AM » |
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Looks like it'll be a bumper crop of the little critters this year... Sifting through a shovel load of dirt in a suburban backyard, Michael Raupp and Paula Shrewsbury find their quarry: a cicada nymph. And then another. And another. And four more. In maybe a third of a square foot of dirt, the University of Maryland entomologists find at least seven cicadas -- a rate just shy of a million per acre. A nearby yard yielded a rate closer to 1.5 million. https://www.foxnews.com/science/trillions-of-cicadas-about-to-emerge-across-us |
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Never ask a geek 'Why?',just nod your head and slowly back away... IBA# 22107 VRCC# 7976 VRCCDS# 226 1998 Valkyrie Standard 2008 Gold Wing Taxation is theft. μολὼν λαβέ |
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« Reply #15 on: May 06, 2021, 06:33:25 AM » |
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Six weeks later the tiny nymphs are going to tumble 80 feet from the treetops, bounce twice, burrow down into the soil, go back underground for another 17 years."This reminds me of my sex life (without the trees).
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« Reply #16 on: May 06, 2021, 08:07:49 AM » |
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I've found that below 45 mph, they bounce off the windshield with a thump. Above about 45 mph, it looks like you hit a tomato.
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« Reply #17 on: May 06, 2021, 08:36:53 AM » |
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Any of you ever seen a cicada wasp?
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