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Brood X Cicadas Are Emerging at Last
Scientific American ^
| 5-10-21
| Kate Wong and Cherie Sinnen
Posted on 05/10/2021 9:07:24 AM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome
Brood Y will mostly stay underground (in the basement, so to speak).
The ones that do exert the energy to come up will expect a tiny blue ribbon for showing up.
They will spend much of their time in yard trees, watching TVs and PC screens through the home’s windows.
They will mate at a fraction of the normal rate.
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posted on
05/10/2021 9:55:00 AM PDT
by
polymuser
(A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
To: dynachrome
More bugs for the kitties to bring to mama.
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posted on
05/10/2021 9:55:19 AM PDT
by
bgill
To: dynachrome
Seems like skillful digging carnivores would completely wipe out cicada nymphs before they break the surface.
Maybe they taste bad or something?
To: dynachrome
My CA sister and her family came to Texas for a visit in the summer when the cicada's are at their melodious best.
My brother-in-law got out of the car and said, "What is that maraca's?"
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posted on
05/10/2021 10:01:20 AM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
To: dynachrome
My dogs think they are delicious.
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posted on
05/10/2021 10:17:01 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
To: zeestephen
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posted on
05/10/2021 10:30:19 AM PDT
by
lizma2
To: dynachrome
They were at my college graduation in 1970. Bob Dylan was an honor graduate there. He later commemorated the occasion with “The Day of the Locusts.”
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posted on
05/10/2021 10:37:13 AM PDT
by
ReleaseTheHounds
("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher )
To: dware
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posted on
05/10/2021 10:39:10 AM PDT
by
bigbob
To: bigbob
Enjoy the mayfly swarms!Lol. I don't mind them. They make the flies I tie work better!
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posted on
05/10/2021 10:46:21 AM PDT
by
dware
(Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
To: Blood of Tyrants
I remembered seeing starlings in a previous cycle who were too stuffed with cicada larvae to fly.
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posted on
05/10/2021 10:57:01 AM PDT
by
gitmo
(If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
To: Slyfox
When my son was a young’un he asked me why those things were laughing at him.
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posted on
05/10/2021 10:58:24 AM PDT
by
gitmo
(If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
To: pfflier
Within days people will be going nuts from the sound.
After the last year, I'm thinking most people don't have much left in the way of nuts to go.
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posted on
05/10/2021 11:23:07 AM PDT
by
chrisser
To: pfflier
I love the sound. To me that is the sound of summer!
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posted on
05/10/2021 11:25:16 AM PDT
by
Stormy_MS1
(CHINA VIRUS!!)
To: Stormy_MS1
I never heard them until my dad was assigned to Altus AFB, Oklahoma in the 1960’s. Then I wondered what is that constant screeching? When I saw the discarded shells on the trees they looked prehistoric.
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posted on
05/10/2021 11:30:00 AM PDT
by
pfflier
To: dynachrome
Bad time to ride a motorcycle!
Good time to own a car wash.
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posted on
05/10/2021 11:32:42 AM PDT
by
volunbeer
(Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
To: pfflier
well, the new windows also come with a unique “close” feature now...
:)
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posted on
05/10/2021 11:43:50 AM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: pfflier
years ago I was in South Carolina in the woods looking at property. I heard that sound and was wondering if I had gone into the setting for a horror film. Really eerie until I found out what it was.
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posted on
05/10/2021 12:22:46 PM PDT
by
dirtymac
( Now Is The Time For All Good Men To ComeTo The Aid Of Their Country! NOW)
To: lee martell
Are they called Brood X because they have dropped their slave names, like the Nation of Islam adherents?
To: Verginius Rufus
To: gitmo
That's funny.
I was never bothered by them. They eat other bugs, therefore they are my friend.
My real hatred is with mosquitoes. I own three Dynatraps.
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posted on
05/10/2021 7:23:57 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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