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LOUD! bugs this year
kyplumber
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What are these bugs I am hearing!?!?! This is the first time I have heard them, I asked my dad and he said they are "cadia"?? bugs and they come 7 or ten years or something anyone have any info as to what these things are that are driving me nuts..
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Cicada or as some call them Locust. They have been in here for about 3 weeks now(S of Louisville Ky)and i have some people up in the mountains that say they are real bad this year.
I am in the "mountains" of eastern KY, and they ARE LOUDDDDD its driving me nuts. Man alive they are loud it sounds like 10,000 kids screaming in the woods.
quote:Originally posted by brickmaster1248
Cicada or as some call them Locust. They have been in here for about 3 weeks now(S of Louisville Ky)and i have some people up in the mountains that say they are real bad this year.
I am in the "mountains" of eastern KY, and they ARE LOUDDDDD its driving me nuts. Man alive they are loud it sounds like 10,000 kids screaming in the woods.
better get used to it! for awhile anyways
There's just a little lazy summer in every day...
We would get up in the morning and there would be dozens of the "shells" on our tires.
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No really they're eatible.
I was at Dale Hollow lake a couple weeks ago and they are Cicadas. And they were very loud.
We would get up in the morning and there would be dozens of the "shells" on our tires.
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No really they're eatible.
i knew a guy that would bite their heads off and eat them raw
while they are 17 year locust, they do show up every year in some places, they are not all on the same 17 year cycle, we used to tie thread to one foot, and fly them around
They crawl out of the ground looking like this.
Then they break out.
Here it is resting, waiting for its wings to dry so it can fly away.
Here is a thread from a few days ago. I posted a map of where this particular species of cicadas is, also a good link there with photos of these bugs etc.
There are 14 different species of 17 year cicadas, so this species won't bother you again until 2025. Next year, another species will hatch in several other states, etc.
Mostly located east of the Mississippi River.
http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=306699&SearchTerms=locust
I always thought the zithering of the annual cicada on a warm summer afternoon was a comforting, sleepy sort of sound.
I like to listen to those small swamp frogs when they sing at times. But they can get annoying.
I like the little critters. They are nice to listen to at times and they do not seem as bad this year as they did the last time they were out. Also make great Catfish and Bass bait.
They are three types of them. Some come out every seven years, some at eight to ten. The ones that come out every eight to ten years around here are not much bigger than a house fly and make no noise at all. Then we have the ones out now that come out about every fourteen.
When they peak. They can make mowing, weed eating or doing anything with a small engine miserable swam ya like you have kicked a Yellow Jackets nest.
When we were kids, we would catch them and tie thread to their legs. Then we would fly them around until they got tired, let them go and go catch a fresh one!
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