that’s a freaky cool GIF
Actually, I don’t think they are all that bad. They eat other insects, they don’t carry West Nile and they “play the maracas” in between meals.
I love to hang the empty shells on my clothes and then wait for one of my daughters to see it while inside the house.
We had brood #1 in 2012, this one is brood #2 to my understanding. Eyeballs and wings rained out of the trees from the squirrels and birds feasting. They split the ends of twigs to lay their eggs, we had that derecho wind come through last summer and a lot of those weakened/dead branches came down.
Freegards
Check out the cool little video.. I think you’ll like it! (chuckle, snort, chuckle...)
These just came out like 5 years ago.
I’m seriously reconsidering a trip to PA this June. Ick.
Natures pruner. Lay their eggs in live branches that are around pencil diameter. The branch dies at that point. The branch falls to the ground carrying the eggs with it.
cicadakabobs- the other white meat
My wife and I were on vacation in the blue ridge mountains a couple of years ago when the 7 year cicadas came out. It started on the second day of our vacation very soon after sunrise. It sounded like someone was in our cabin with a huge chain saw! It went on the rest of the week...all day long. They about drove me nuts!
When I was a kid we used to tie thread around them and fly them. We couldn’t afford those motorized model planes.
I’ve been stung by bees, wasps, hornets, yellowjackets etc. I’ve never been stung by one of those Cicada Killers but they look like they could do the job.
I love the hear them, it’s a sound of life!
I wish I had stayed off this thread, LOL