Has anyone in VA ever heard of this CICADA invasion?

[Buliwyf]

Supposedly every 17 years they come out in swarms for a month straight, while they mate and fly around etc.

supposedly I hear sometimes plows are needed to scoop them off the streets.

This May is the 17th year.

YUCK!:(

[Bossman]

Yes we get them in NY as well. "The Magicicada Genus of North America has a 17 or 13 year life cycle (the largest of any insect). Other Geniuses of cicadas have life cycles of a variety of years (never more than 17 and usually a primary number). The Tibicen or "dog day" cicada has a life cycle of only a couple of years."

They are really very loud and you wind up finding their shells all over the trees when they shed. Very annoying.....

http://members.fortunecity.com/cicadaman1999/id17.htm

[Bossman]

YECH......

[Folic_Acid]

My wife (then girlfriend) was living in Nashville in 1998 when they invaded there, and let me tell you, they were AWFUL. There were so many of them, you could hear their humming in your car with the windows closed. They even had planes that refused to take off because they were worried the cicadas would damaged the jets. And yes, they make piles big enough to need scoops and shovels to get rid of them. It's a real mess.

Damn, if they're in VA and NY, then I guess that means they'll be in PA, too.

-Bagginses

HEHEHE a TY beanie of a cicada

http://www.incrediblegifts.com/twitcictybea.html

And just a lot of info on them

http://www.dancentury.com/cicada/

[Chacal]

Stuka grounded in May. Safety first.

[shockwave203]

oh man, I hope you don't get invaded. 2 years ago, we were invaded with grasshoppers. There were so many, that you couldn't see parts of the road in some areas.

Cars were sliding off streets and into ditches because grasshopper guts made the highways so slippery. It was dicusting, hope you don't have to go through anything similiar.

"And there will be a plague of Cicadas... let my people go..."

[Weasel Meat]

Originally posted by Buliwyf
Supposedly every 17 years they come out in swarms for a month straight, while they mate and fly around etc.

supposedly I hear sometimes plows are needed to scoop them off the streets.

This May is the 17th year.

YUCK!:(

Yep this is the year when they come out again... I was too young to remember the last time they came out (only 3), but I hear that it was bad.

[Jeffro]

GOD i hate those bugs...

I really hate them when that invasion happens...

[Weasel Meat]

Also expect more moles in your front yard because they eat the cicadas

An article from Cincinnati... http://www.citybeat.com/2004-01-07/socincinnati.shtml

"The plague is so awful that the Cincinnati Park Board is currently requiring brides to sign a "cicada release form" before they'll rent out facilities for May and June weddings. Outdoor functions of all sorts will certainly be trashed by the loathsome creatures -- dive bombing the potato salad, strafing the salami sandwiches and generally inducing nausea to the faint of stomach."


Look out Ryan they are coming here around may 21..

"They'll be here on or around May 21, and you'll find them all the way up to Dayton," promises Dr. Gene Kritsky, a biology professor at Mount St. Joe.

They deliver a hell of a bite too.... They have a slow-moving proboscis similar to a horse-fly or dear-fly..but if you have it in your hand to long, man they can give you a wallop.

Saw a big guy (ex-biker) get hit by one once when we were doing a 130kmh (about 75mph) on motorcycles... Left a bruise the size of a grape-fruit on his shoulder.

They're great for scaring the ba-jeezus out of chicks though

Keek.

[Ryan]

"They'll be here on or around May 21, and you'll find them all the way up to Dayton," promises Dr. Gene Kritsky, a biology professor at Mount St. Joe.

UGH!!!

[Radram]

no prob, only the females have mouths, the males only live to procreate then die within a few days. they will probably offer money for mutations that happen during the season. i made about 100 dollars when i was 14 finding dead or alive bugs with red eyes and or different markings on them