Ready for the oncoming swarm?
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DalekBrittany
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Yes, I said swarm. Is everyone in the east coast ready for the swarm of cicadas this spring? They are saying 1 billion cicadas per square mile.
Have you heard about this? Are you now freaking out if you haven't? Is there anything you are doing to prepare your lawn and trees? Discuss
Me, I'm used to cicadas (grew up in the south) as far as noise, but I don't know if there have ever been that many at once...
Have you heard about this? Are you now freaking out if you haven't? Is there anything you are doing to prepare your lawn and trees? Discuss
Me, I'm used to cicadas (grew up in the south) as far as noise, but I don't know if there have ever been that many at once...
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I'm not 100% positive but I believe these type of hatches are on a cycle.. But this sounds like it could be of biblical proportions....literally.. The plague of the locusts....0
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What part of the east coast?0
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They were pretty bad last year here in NC, but I do love hearing them0
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I'm not 100% positive but I believe these type of hatches are on a cycle.. But this sounds like it could be of biblical proportions....literally.. The plague of the locusts....
Yes, most species of cicadas hatch on a 17 year cycle. I don't see how they can predict how many are in the ground ready to hatch?0 -
Last time I saw one was in Central Park. This will be interesting.0
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Oh good lord. I hope this is all just fear-mongering, and not real. Because if it's real, I might have to migrate west. Or north. Or anywhere that isn't SC.0
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Flamethrower, baby!0
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Dafuq is a cicada?0
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Dafuq is a cicada?
grasshopper like bug, makes a loud noise. I'd post a gif but I'm too damn lazy0 -
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Dafuq is a cicada?0
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I'm not 100% positive but I believe these type of hatches are on a cycle.. But this sounds like it could be of biblical proportions....literally.. The plague of the locusts....
Yes, most species of cicadas hatch on a 17 year cycle. I don't see how they can predict how many are in the ground ready to hatch?
there is a secondary species that is on a 13 year cycle. that's one predicted to come this year...I guess based upon the size and length of the last swarm?
I can't imagine the years where the 13 year and the 17 year cycle coincidence! I hate those little buggers.0 -
I was in Japan a few years ago with their major swarm. There were millions of dead bodies in the streets. It was ........ crunchy.0
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Ugggg those are annoying, they were so bad in 2011 I couldn't walk in my grass without crunching their little exoskelotons. And SOOO loud!! :grumble: I don't see SC listed for this Brood, so hopefully I won't get them as bad, but I'm right on the NC/SC border so who knows.0
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There are different types, there is a type on a 13-year cycle and some on an annual cycle. They can predict it because it happened here 17 years ago and they know the breeding patterns, I suppose.
Unfortunately, it is real. If anyone was up here back in '96 they might remember it, these are from the same brood...will be interested in seeing those stories.
A cicada is a very noisy flying bug, cousin to the cricket. The live underground near the root systems of trees.
They can be a menace to fragile or young trees, so you may want to wrap them in foil...:)0 -
I don't remember SEEING many last year but remember them being more loud than usual.
Goodie. :noway:0 -
That's like the pine beetles that invaded souther alberta a few years ago. It was disgusting, there were so many beetle bodies in the gutters and sidewalks that it looked like tar.0
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