Posted on 05/06/2013 2:29:22 PM PDT by Biggirl
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. The insects will arrive in such numbers that people from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered roughly 600-to-1. Maybe more.
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I think you are getting mooned!
Hello everyone this is your action news reporter with all the news that’s news across the nation! Pardon me sir did you see what happened?
Yea I seen it!....
“Buried for 17 years and they came out to PARTY and raise a ruckus!”
More accurately “Buried for 17 years and they came out to PARTY AND REPRODUCE and raise a ruckus!”
HA!
That is SO cute!
Read the whole article and Washington gets them, too. Bet they all go for Hussein as every insect does - bet his whole body is covered. They know what he is made of.
That is awesome.
Every time we had ‘em when I was a kid, I’d collect up the skins and randomly attach them to my family without their knowledge.
Mom would go to work or shopping with them cheerily attached to her sweater.
Dad had them perched jauntily on his hat.
The horses wore them like tiny jockeys in their manes.
They’d show up with dollhouse furniture in little tableaus on the porch or sidewalks, seemingly engaged in some social function.
Sometimes I’d spray paint them gold or silver first, just in case the occasion warranted something a little more formal.
[hillbilly kid with no playmates..you make up yer own fun]
;]
They won’t.
The don’t eat when they’re above ground.
[their minds are elsewhere]
The chitin in their exoskeletons can cause intestinal blockage.
Might wanna rein his snacking in a bit.
:)
I was still living in Baltimore in 2004. In my neighborhood in NE Baltimore, it wasn’t that bad which was surprising since it was an old neighborhood with big yards and lots and lots of trees, at the time I even recall an entomologist on the local news saying that they would be more plentiful in areas were the ground hadn’t been disturbed much during the last 17 years, i.e. not in newer developments or where there was a lot of paving and places where there were not a lot of older trees.
But out in Timonium were I worked….ye gads, they were everywhere! They’d fly at full speed and smash into my 3rd floor office window all day long, every day I’d find at least a couple of them in my car, in the elevator, but the worst was when one would hitch a ride. There was nothing like sitting down at my desk after coming back from lunch and all of a sudden feel something on the back of my neck or in my hair and feel and hear the loud fluttering of wings. I wasn’t afraid of them per se, I know they are harmless and I do think they are kind of cool, but it would startle the heck out of me and I’d jump up and let out a loud shriek and it wasn’t just us gals in the office who reacted that way either : ),
Yeah, that's brood X (10), a.k.a. the "great eastern brood," and in the MD area it's WAY bigger than brood II (2) this year. I still vividly remember brood 10 from 1970 when I was in elementary school - really scary at that time - and from 1987. I moved from central to northern MD later, and in 2004 there were only a few pockets of brood 10 in this area. I don't really remember any other significant broods besides brood 10 in MD - the *really* big one - which as you say isn't due again until 2021.
Check out the periodical cicada broods web page. It's really interesting. It shows the 12 active 17 year broods and the 4 active 13 year broods, and which cycle each is on. It includes which year each brood comes out, how many, and a map of where each cyclical brood pops up. The ones popping up this year are brood II (2).
Plus, the map for the much larger "great eastern brood" X (10) due again in 2021.
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Glad to know that.
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