Brood X [First cicada thread of the year?]

Backwoodsman ^ | 4-2-04 | Rev. J.D. Hooker

[MamaLucci]

Since the summer that I turned 8 years old, I've had "issues" about locusts. (((((shudder)))))

[sharktrager]

Not the first. One a few eeks ago.

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[corkoman]

i was in Baltimore last time they swarmed - loud - and that was indeed 17 years ago. sigh, I am old.....

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Periodical Cicadas to Emerge in May - 3/12/04

[Vigilantcitizen]

Gonna be some fat, happy bass and bream.

[A Jovial Cad]

Great article! Thanks for posting it. I've long been fascinated by Cicada Broods. Last summer a 13 year brood emerged here. It's funny, but whenever I would call attention to their mating calls and mention that we where hearing a rare occurence, people would insist that the cicada's sang every year. I would explain that actually they were just remembering those sounds from the *last* time a brood emerged, and in these parts that would have been 13 years ago (there is only one brood in our state). They would be truly amazed, but when they thought long and hard about it would concede that they couldn't really remember hearing them last summer, or the one before that, but just assumed they came out every year.
Again, thanks for posting this excellent article.

[RandallFlagg]

HAAA!!! Funny story time:

My Wife, Sons and I drove down to Dallas to visit friends last year and on the way back, we stopped to get gas at about 2AM. At this station, there were bugs all over the place, buzzing around the lights. As we were filling, I saw a cicada and picked it up by the wings. I told my Wife, "Ya know, these bugs are in Guinness as the loudest in the world?" She gave me, "The Look," and told me to put it down.

I threw it in the hopes that it would fly away, which it did.

But it came back....

The next few minutes were spent with my Wife and I running like idiots around the gas station thile we were being buzzed and divebombed by this little beast. She was screaming and, of course, I was laughing hysterically. It finally went Kamakaze on me and slammed me (HARD) on my head. I said, "OW!" and SHE started to laugh.

When five more of them showed up (Apparently they annoy in packs), we left. Our Sons got a big kick out of watching Mommy and Daddy that night.

Them Texas bugs get HUGH!

[TASMANIANRED]

I was listening to the radio last week when the cicada's were mentioned. They went throught the list of nothing to worry about, non toxic, don't eat plants, etc. At the end they said it would be wise not to let your dog eat too many of them.

I have 2pups 5 and 6 months old. My lab is as good as a seagull swooping and picking something off the lawn without missing a step. I have fished dozens of rocks out of her mouth. I dread having to stick my hand half way up to my elbow down her mouth to fish a half crunched ugly beady eyed fat bug out of her mouth.

The 17 year cicada's were out the year I graduated from high school. They were so thick you couldn't walk without crunching at least some. Their fat little bodies made a most unpleasant pop. It is not cool to have bug guts on your shoes all day. Rolling a car along the street leading to the parking lot sounded like bubble wrap popping. I was ill till graduation.

[Severa]

Ugh *shudder* I remember the last time these little bastards were around. Our class was on a field trip in Frankfort, KY. We had stopped for an outside picnic when we got hit with a mini-swarm. Scared the hell out of us all.

[Happygal]

I LOVE bass.

But in Ireland rod fishermen can only catch bass, and only two at a time...and have to throw small bass back (understandably).

But that makes Bass an expensive enough commodity in Ireland.

Bream? I'd never eaten Bream until I went to Portugal.
(Don't get them in Ireland)

Gorgeous!
I ate Bass and Bream (and with the exception of one night when I had a Portugese Stone Steak)..for fourteen nights. I thought I might as well enjoy what I can't have at home!

I'm going to make a return trip to the Algarve just for the Golden Bream and the cheap Bass!!!!

[Lael]

throughout just about all of the United States east of the Mississippi

Don't count Arizona, New Mexico, or any of the Mountain States out.

The author didn't mention it, but look at the two Species...the 17 year, and the 10 year.

Merely by the process of inspection, sometimes the 17 year, and the 13 year Climax occur in the SAME year!

Then, it is Katie Bar the Door!!!

[arjay]

When I lived in Lubbock, Tx I spent a lot of time shooting Cicadas with a BB gun. I guess one could not get away with that now.

[SJackson]

Cicada, bass, bream, Golden bream, stone steak.

Are we discussing bugs, fish or ????

If you only keep bass when you catch them two at a time you're going to make some freepers jealous.

[John F. Kerry]

Imagine what it must be like to remain underground for 17 years and then emerge!

JFK

[Happygal]

I don't like bugs...but I like my fish! ;-)

I don't know what you mean about making people jealous for keeping them when you catch two at a time. I'm Irish for chrissakes...gimme a break!

[Charliehorse]

We live in Texas and we have locust every year. Our youngest boy teased his little sister ( who was deathly afraid of insects) one day by placing a dozen locust in her doll cloths box. He hid under the bed and watched her scream and run from the room when she opened the box and the locust flew out at her.

[Viking2002]

Time to inventory my tournament bag and make sure I have an ample supply of #4 hooks.

[pgkdan]

They're expecting cicadas in Baltimore and DC this summer...we had them last year in the Roanoke Valley. My wife and I spend a week at Claytor Lake every summer and we were there right in the middle of the swarm. I had no idea they were about. We pulled in about 4:00, about the time they started to calm down every day and I didn't notice them. But the next morning we woke up to what sounded like a chainsaw in the living room of our cabin! They were that loud!! There had to be a billion of the ugly noisome creatures in the trees around the cabin. You couldn't take a walk outside without 10 or 20 of the things landing on you, getting in your hair and down you shirt. I know they fed the fish well, but I hated the damned things.