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Cicada invasion: After 17 years underground, billions to emerge this spring
ABC News ^
| 4-10-2020
| Michelle Stoddart
Posted on 04/10/2021 2:06:52 PM PDT by deport
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To: deport
By Summer we may be calling them protein. Always look to God’s bounty.
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posted on
04/10/2021 2:46:29 PM PDT
by
Starstruck
( Since I'm old I don't whether I'm senile or brilliant. Or happily both.)
To: fidelis
The first time I saw a Cicada killer hornet it shocked me because of its size. It was well over an inch, with a very long stinger. I watch one hornet slaughter the cicadas in my yard.
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posted on
04/10/2021 2:50:49 PM PDT
by
fini
To: deport
Doesn’t this happen every year?
To: fini
I had the same reaction. They’re huge and fierce looking.
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posted on
04/10/2021 2:58:16 PM PDT
by
fidelis
(Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
To: deport
Last time we had the 7 year ones they were loud and swarmed. They would get on my shirt and cling.
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posted on
04/10/2021 3:00:39 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(The Republican Party is DEAD! It took 160 years but The Whigs Struck Back!)
To: Mariner
Plant fluids. They’re pretty much just above ground to reproduce.
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posted on
04/10/2021 3:05:16 PM PDT
by
gundog
(It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: fidelis
If that hornet stung me, I would probably cry like a little girl.
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posted on
04/10/2021 3:06:45 PM PDT
by
fini
To: deport
Won’t be as bad as “Brood Z”, when they leave the ground looking for living flesh to eat.
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posted on
04/10/2021 3:14:13 PM PDT
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Poor kids are just as bright, just as talented, as white kids." - Joe Biden Aug 8, 2019)
To: deport
I saw Cicadas emerging one spring morning. As soon as it was daylight , birds swarmed in and picked off practically each and every one of them except the one that was in the guard shack with me.
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posted on
04/10/2021 3:15:38 PM PDT
by
csvset
(tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
To: fwdude
I love the sound, too. I grew up in NYC, and I remember there was a 17 yr locust hatching there one summer. I lived across from Riverside Park, so the sound was deafening...but beautiful in its own way. Those of waves of sound have always meant summer to me.
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posted on
04/10/2021 3:15:46 PM PDT
by
livius
To: deport
No they don’t ...they don’t have mouths.
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posted on
04/10/2021 3:26:52 PM PDT
by
rockabyebaby
(THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP)
To: deport
They won’t even recognize America.
And besides, the old neighborhood’s been torn down and replaced.
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posted on
04/10/2021 3:40:09 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
To: deport
I saw a video on the internet of a chef cooking them. I wonder if the WH will cook some up for UN, Moo, and the other enviro freaks that advocate eating bugs and worms? Would be brilliant to have the UN clowns eating bugs while the rest ate steak and lobster.
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posted on
04/10/2021 3:41:11 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
To: Mariner
My dog eats them. Bass love them. My nephew eats them. But he is a little weird.
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posted on
04/10/2021 3:45:11 PM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
(wwg1wga Godwins; what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them.. )
To: fwdude
Cicadia sex? LOL
I hope they don ‘t bother birds, other wildlife, or my cat.
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posted on
04/10/2021 3:47:04 PM PDT
by
Veto!
(Political Correctness Offends Me)
To: SamAdams76
After 17 years underground. I can relate.
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posted on
04/10/2021 3:47:58 PM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
(wwg1wga Godwins; what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them.. )
To: fidelis
Those guys will flourish this year. There numbers dwindle each year though the cycle. This is the boost needed they love this year.
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posted on
04/10/2021 3:53:24 PM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
(wwg1wga Godwins; what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them.. )
To: deport
“What the hell do they eat?”
******
“They eat vegetation”
And... they are edible.
“Hmmmm tastes like chicken” - Cody Lundin
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posted on
04/10/2021 4:07:32 PM PDT
by
Clutch Martin
(The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
To: csvset
Hereabouts these are interesting things that happen somewhere else.
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posted on
04/10/2021 4:11:28 PM PDT
by
arthurus
( covfefe nmi)
To: fwdude
“Essentially nothing”
Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
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posted on
04/10/2021 4:11:38 PM PDT
by
KingLudd
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