Cicada Invasion! (Insect-Related Thread)

[bad_roo]

I bet you could have some fun with a wiffle ball bat right now.

[EPSkis]

Here ~ Some pics. I don't think the pics do them justice, as the ones I saw were an EASY 2 1/2" - 3" long.

http://www.msj.edu/cicada/images/index_02.gif

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...29_cicadas.jpg

http://biology.clc.uc.edu/graphics/c...0on%20tree.jpg

By-the-by:

Cicada Stir-Fry Ingredients:
minced onion, coriander (cilantro), fresh gingerroot
sliced carrots, chopped cauliflower and/or broccoli
water chestnuts and/or other vegetables of your choice
bean sprouts and snow peas
blanched, teneral cicadas
In a wok or other suitable pan, heat a couple tablespoons of vegetable oil. Add ingredients in the order listed above when those in the most recent addition are partially cooked. Serve over whole-grain (“brown”) rice and add soy sauce to taste.

[Woodsy]

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com.../mdf564678.jpg

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com...ania_re105.jpg

get the oung onesan old $5 thrift store wooden tennis racket.

I had loadsof fun in TN during a hatch with my parents.

yu can kill 100s at a time swinging it.

dumb insects, they used to impale themselves on my mom's rosebushes

dog ate so many he was sick, cat too.

[char]

Originally posted by Big E
They're not very bright, that's for sure. I saw one take off from a bush and fly directly, head-on into a giant red door. And the strongest concentration of them at my folks' was around their metal street light.

Thats why there is 1.5 mil/acre. Evolution at work.

[13]

Holy crap...

Get some pics, willya Ice?

[powderwhore]

The Mormon Crickets are invading Utah again this year.

http://www.learnersonline.com/weekly...8/072202-4.jpg



http://deseretnews.com/photos/1788963.jpg



http://deseretnews.com/photos/cricket0405.jpg

[splat]

Don't fuck with the trilliums.

[Tippster]

"Mormon" Crickets? Man, those kids on Mission have gotten good....

Ice,

MD9 has his reasons for a full-face Helmet - I have mine. I hit one riding home yesterday at about 40mph. The fucker almost covered the whole shield! I guess I'll be wearing the full leathers and sweating my ass off a while longer.

Roo - aiiight. I say dumb shit every now and then... My point was that this area is very 'buggy" in a normal year - especially compared to higher elevations like CO and UT.

[lax]

lest see some pics of your yards with them

[ak_powder_monkey]

I wish we had big ass hatches of big ass bugs here so we'd get bigger ass trout, we only get a jillion little stinging bugs

[Aldo]

Well, that was a real letdown. I guess I'll have to wait another 17 years. Hollow threats, all of em, Cicada, Al-qaeda, ralph nada

[glademaster]

Yeah, i was hoping for a real bumper crop of Cicadas. Now I guess I won't see my first invasion till I'm like 32, damn that sucks. Stupid bugs not descending on in Apocolyptic fashion.....

[teledave]

I think there should be a different hatch coming in 3-4 years. Although each brood only hatches every 17 years, there are 3 or 4 different broods so really the fuckers hatch about 4 years or so. This WAS supposed to be the motherlode brrod but it didn't seem any bigger than normal to me.

[road trip]

You guys were in the wrong place! Princeton, NJ = Cicada Central