Trillions of Cicadas about to infest 15 SE States
May 5, 2021 13:42:26 #
Generation X is coming. https://www.foxnews.com/science/trillions-of-cicadas-about-to-emerge-across-us
May 5, 2021 13:43:56 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
Generation X is coming. https://www.foxnews.com/science/trillions-of-cicadas-about-to-emerge-across-us
Yes, Nature at its finest.
Seeing it on the news is as close as I want to get.
EDIT: I think they're here already. I tried to watch the video and got, "Something went wrong."
May 5, 2021 13:46:09 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Yes, Nature at its finest.
Seeing it on the news is as close as I want to get.
EDIT: I think they're here already. I tried to watch the video and got, "Something went wrong."
Seeing it on the news is as close as I want to get.
EDIT: I think they're here already. I tried to watch the video and got, "Something went wrong."
Me too. I think I see a shortage of ear plugs in the next few weeks
May 5, 2021 14:01:52 #
In the Chicago area I remember this happening twice. The forest preserves were loaded with them and they were very noisy. Dead ones were lying all over my yard.
May 6, 2021 09:31:05 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Same here but it didn't tell me that until after sitting through the commercial. EDIT: I think they're here already. I tried to watch the video and got, "Something went wrong."
May 6, 2021 10:11:08 #
This will be accompanied by an increase in wasps which prey on cicadas. That's what happened back in 1987 (I think) when I owned a house in a suburban area. The wasps were all over the place and building nests in my garage.
May 6, 2021 10:13:09 #
We get them here in norther AZ every year. I find a lot of the husks attached to various vertical surfaces. It's almost time for them to emerge this year. I don't hear or see them in my neighborhood because we don't have any of the trees that they like. But my sisters house has a lot of the trees that they like to suckle root sap from and mate in. She has it bad over there. The noise drives me and my sister crazy.
May 6, 2021 10:33:51 #
Today, the Washington Post had some dining suggestions for cicadas - sautéed as a snack sounded interesting.
May 6, 2021 14:07:37 #
May 6, 2021 15:37:32 #
bw79st wrote:
This will be accompanied by an increase in wasps which prey on cicadas. That's what happened back in 1987 (I think) when I owned a house in a suburban area. The wasps were all over the place and building nests in my garage.
1987 sounds about right. I first experienced them living in Washington, DC in 1970. Walking on the sidewalk, I made a crunch, crunch sound. With a 17 year life cycle, 1987 would have been next, then 2004 and now I 2011. Living in the northeast, though, I've sometimes heard them in the woods but never experienced anything like the 1970 outbreak in DC.
May 6, 2021 23:44:38 #
And, of course, there is an app:
https://cicadasafari.org/
Fun fact from that article:
• Periodical cicadas are best eaten when they are still white, and they taste like cold canned asparagus. Like all insects, cicadas have a good balance of vitamins, are low in fat, and, especially the females, are high in protein.
Marshall
https://cicadasafari.org/
Fun fact from that article:
• Periodical cicadas are best eaten when they are still white, and they taste like cold canned asparagus. Like all insects, cicadas have a good balance of vitamins, are low in fat, and, especially the females, are high in protein.
Marshall
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