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East About To Be Overrun By Billions Of Cicadas
Associated Press ^ | May 6,2013 | Seth Borenstein

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: cicadas; eastcoast; insects
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To: CatherineofAragon

“Your heart is kind.”

Or my brains are damaged.

:D


181 posted on 05/06/2013 6:17:50 PM PDT by Salamander
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To: Norm Lenhart

Can’t find a harness to fit ‘im, though.

[no shoulders]


182 posted on 05/06/2013 6:18:41 PM PDT by Salamander
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To: Daffynition

LOL


183 posted on 05/06/2013 6:19:57 PM PDT by Salamander
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To: Average Al

Back when the Vietnamese were coming into this country, a large group came to NJ, settled down and some opened restaurants. Then cats started disappearing from neighborhoods! Sure enough, the BOH found them in the restaurants. The Vietnamese saw the cats and thought they were just animals prowling around. They didn’t understand the idea of “pets”! Gads!


184 posted on 05/06/2013 6:26:57 PM PDT by Exit148
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To: Exit148

My husband saw a group of orientals in the parking lot of a cattle sale barn. They were butchering a calf that they had just bought at the sale barn, in the trunk of their car.


185 posted on 05/06/2013 6:31:18 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: CatherineofAragon
Burqua ?

lol  (and ducking ;-)

186 posted on 05/06/2013 6:31:47 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: ansel12
.. this is like the apocalypse

On an optimistic note, verily it is written : no apocalypse til Cubs win the Series


you can relax awhile . . .

187 posted on 05/06/2013 6:34:31 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Salamander

No way.


188 posted on 05/06/2013 6:36:20 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon
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To: Average Al

Same here... some years more than others but I see them every year.

LLS


189 posted on 05/06/2013 6:37:10 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: tomkat

LOL!!

I ululate in your general direction!


190 posted on 05/06/2013 6:37:56 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon
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To: Biggirl

Cool, I’ve loved watching the Cicadas ever since I was a kid. I live in Baltimore, house for sale, moving to a non-Cicada area (FL) as soon as it sells. I am actually hoping it doesn’t sell too fast just so I can be here for my last Cicada summer!!!


191 posted on 05/06/2013 6:43:09 PM PDT by VastRWCon (LARGE PRINT GIVE IT, small print take it away.)
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To: CatherineofAragon

Used to know two brothers who would take Cicadas or big grasshoppers and put them under a cork with about three feet of line to the hook. They used a small split shot weight which would let the bait surface and then sink again. They caught a lot of big fish doing that.


192 posted on 05/06/2013 6:45:28 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: abner
Seriesly .. the damned things are everywhere !


             

193 posted on 05/06/2013 6:48:03 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: CatherineofAragon
promises, promises . . .              :^)
194 posted on 05/06/2013 7:01:24 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: allmendream

The Cicadas hit DC in 70, 87 (I got married that year) then again in 2004 they won’t be here till 2021.


195 posted on 05/06/2013 7:33:06 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: Jack Hammer
"Just more illegal immigrants. No doubt the Obama administration will offer them citizenship."

These Cicadas are natives and natural born American critters and naturally follow the condition of their fathers and succeed to all their rights.

They have been here long before the American revolution and the author even noted that Thomas Jefferson once wrote about an invasion of this very brood at Monticello, his home in Virginia.

Cicadas are more American than the creature child of the Kenyan in the white house.

196 posted on 05/06/2013 8:27:51 PM PDT by Godebert (No Person Except a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN!)
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To: tomkat

(wink)


197 posted on 05/06/2013 9:06:07 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon
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To: F15Eagle

I guess there are various kinds of locusts. Lucky us.


198 posted on 05/06/2013 9:17:27 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely expressed as advice)
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To: Norm Lenhart
There is a naked dude in the bug’s eye reflection....

You just had to make us all look, didn't you? Now you've gone and ruined a perfectly good thread with something so gross, we need eye bleach to get rid of it!

Thank you, Mr. Lenhart!!

(ok, so it wasn't such a big deal, but you know I have to give you crap for it :-)

199 posted on 05/06/2013 9:54:34 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Godebert

Good point!


200 posted on 05/07/2013 12:10:04 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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