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Hire migrants to collect them, mill them, create foods for prisons, school lunches, congressmen. We could empty the prisons, blow up homeschooling, and clear congress permanently.
Insurrection J13!
With a little luck their noise will mask the ringing in my ears haha
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The article in the beginning says that the insects are hibernating. Go down a ways and it says that they are not hibernating while they are in the ground.
Somebody didn’t do his research when they wrote this
Evidently there is a market for them....................
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/14-fun-facts-about-cicadas-180977361/
By emerging all at once in densities of up to 1.5 million per acre, cicadas manage to overwhelm predators, from songbirds to skunks, who quickly get too full to take another bite of the buzzing buffet.
Noisy bugs. Not like they’re Shark-cadas or anything.
(dibs on the movie rights for Shark Week)
Had no idea what they were until I visited relatives in Indiana - horrible. Chiggers too, which we do not have in California.
Will not be visiting if there is a “super bloom” of these little monsters.
The year they dedicated the WW2 Memorial, it was difficult to get a hotel room in DC so had to go about an hours ride into VA. That year it was horrible, you couldn’t walk down the sidewalk without stepping on dead or dying cicadas. Now at the age of 71, I have the same sound in my ears as back then, but it permit now.
By looking at the maps of the areas the two broods are located, this is all a bunch of hogwash because there will be very little overlap.
I was a kid in VA 1959-1963 and we had an emergence then. It was fascinating to a 9 year old. We moved south and out of range in 1963 so I never saw them again.
Looks like I will see them next year here in Kentucky.
Of the critters that prey on cicadas, the best are Sphecius speciosus, often simply referred to as the cicada killer or the cicada hawk, is a large, solitary digger wasp species, specifically the eastern cicada killer.
It might be possible to have a mass breeding and release just as the cicadas come out. Likewise a release of birds and eastern Red Bats, though I imagine these are much harder to breed in substantial numbers.
food source
harvest time
best in gravy
Just don't eat too many.