cicadas coming to East this year
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| http://cicadainvasion.blogspot.co.uk/20 ... icada.html |
| I have bugs. These are nasty. Lucky I won't be around there |
| I wish we had them in Calgary, I really enjoy the sound. Calgary is very quiet for wild life. I miss the sound of the wood pigeons from my home in the UK. |
| Wood pigeons are a pain in the arse |
| What on earth are you doing with them, and for them to be so uncomfortable? |
| ugh, I just heard that on the news this week. Like everyone else, I despise the invasion. Noisy nasty bugs. |
 Quote: What on earth are you doing with them, and for them to be so uncomfortable? |
| Bag up the cicadas and send them to Tanja! Lord, I hate those things. They are so freakin' creepy. Fortunately I live in an area where the homes are less than 17 years old, so the ground was turned up and the eggs haven't had time to mature. |
Paula O. wrote: Bag up the cicadas and send them to Tanja! Lord, I hate those things. They are so freakin' creepy. Fortunately I live in an area where the homes are less than 17 years old, so the ground was turned up and the eggs haven't had time to mature. I am a little odd, I get distressed when people kill insects or anything, I will always rescue ones found indoors and put them outside. |
In Texas we say cicadas are the sound of hot. But we tend to call them locusts.  |
| If you hate them then never go to New Zealand it just wouldn't sound the same without them, they never bother you unlike the sand flies! |
| Sand files ? |
| In Texas they are probably locusts, not cicadas. Locusts are short horned grasshoppers. They do not have the long 19 year life cycle as does this guy coming to the NE this summer. Locusts eat with a mouth..and eat everything! Cicadas are sippers, they insert a feeding tube and suck up their dinners. Their shed exoskeletons are often found on tree trunks. The two aren't even closely related though I guess only entomologists care about that. Indeed, New Zealand has numerous species of cicadas and it must truly be noisy there in summer. Sand flies. Found in sandy areas, member of the Diptera family......flies......and bite and draw blood! No-see-ums are different than sandflies and not "quite" as nasty. Sand fleas are more closely related to shrimp and live in the sand, biting whoever sits their butt down on the sand. |
| Phew not coming to Canada. There is a sound bit what a racket. Other than the noise they make, which can hit 90 decibels, and the obviously frightening sight of a sky blackened with the insects, cicadas are relatively harmless. In fact, they are known to aerate soil and provide a plentiful food source to birds and other creatures. http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/17-year-cicada-hatch-to-bring-billions-of-bugs-to-u-s-east-coast-1.1238606 |
| Lucky Canada! Yeah, 17, not 19 years, typo. I still enjoy the sound of locusts in summer......lulls me to sleep. We get cicadas here but not in swarms like back East with such tree cover. While they do aerate the soil, they can be hard on the plants if in great number. Kinda cute and ugly at the same time. |
| We won't have tons of them like the US but in along the bordering provinces we will have some. I think they're cool lol |
We had a cicada year several years ago. They are OK - not fun, but certainly not bad. They don't bite, so that gives them a big plus in my book!  |
| Sorry but they are bugs. Ahhhhhh |
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