Posted on 06/01/2013 11:10:41 AM PDT by SamAdams76
So I'm sitting on my picnic table on a hot 90 degree day, sipping a beer and lazily surfing about the Internet, when it suddenly occurred to me that no sex-starved cicadas are joining me.
Not that I'm complaining, mind you, but I just got to wondering whatever happened to all that fuss about the billion or so cicadas that were to invade the Northeast this spring?
About a month ago, there was a plethora of articles heralding the imminent arrival of clouds of sexually repressed insects climbing out of the cold ground after 17 years of hibernation for their much heralded mating cycle.
All that we were waiting for was the ground to warm up to 64 degrees and they were to come on out and terrorize us for a week or two. Well the ground under my feet is a toasty 100 degrees plus and all I have to show for it is sunburned feet, ants and some mosquito bites.
Well, that's all I have to say. Not complaining or anything. Just wondering, that's all. There sure was a lot of fuss made about this back in late April/early May when the ground was still cold. Guess it must have been a slow news cycle and they needed something to get us excited about.
I suppose I'll file this cicada invasion in the same folder with other "disasters and spectacles" that never quite panned out. Halley's Comet, global warming, ice age, famine, overpopulation, Y2K, 401k, Mayan calendar, nuclear war, etc., etc.
Not supposed to be in MA. Last one in 2008 hit the Cape(a different wave)
Sequester.
Come on down to Virginia. They are pretty talkative around here.
Well, I wouldn’t call it FearNet material, but there are plenty of them around in Northern Virginia to the extent that you have to watch where you step if you don’t want to be scraping your shoes.
My friend in Westfield, NJ. is complaining loudly about them. They’re everywhere! And loud as all git out!
They haven’t started buzzing in Tucson yet. They will though, every year here we get the buzz of satan.
Global Worming.
Heavy winds blew them to Europe.
Although they never quite said so, I got the impression that they only got as far north as Connecticut.
Just as they were about to come out, the word spread among them that Obama had won the last election, so they decided they were better off staying buried.
Seriously — if you look at the maps, for some reason, the invasion wasn’t projected to make it past the northern Connecticut border.
not a peep here in West-NY
After Jason Collins came out and got all the media coverage, the cicadas decided that they would look silly by coming out so soon after.
Must be global warming. Uh, make that climate change. Uh George Bush. Never mind.
No Cicadas yet at my house on LI. And we've had three 90 degree days in a row. It was cold before that though.
I think they have all drowned and been washed down the Mississippi in the Midwest.
I don’t think that’s a complete brood II map.
Their unemployment ran out and they all signed up for disability.
Come to my house here in Virginia. We’re surrounded by trees, and the sound is like a loud, constant tuning fork. You can hear it over the TV.
I happen to be bug-phobic, and I am sitting here wondering how I’m going to get through an outdoor wedding later today.
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