Cicadas

[MoKelly]

The thought is that the 7/13/17 year cicada swarms evolved to overwhelm predators with a mass hatching, mating, and egg laying that allow large numbers of cicadas to successfully complete their lifecycle. Rather hard to definitively prove, but there are very few areas where all three types overlap.

While the mass hatch event is on, yes, the predators go wild. Given the high protein and fat content of cicadas (and most insects), it would be like a McDonalds with free food, figuratively speaking.

All the best,

Peter

Thanks. That is interesting. Nature is amazing.

MoKelly

 

[txndncowboy]

Try June bugs-they hurt.
Cicadas fly so poorly I have been hit by them many times, always a fun thump to scare the wits out of you while working on the car or landscape.

If you ride a motorcycle you'll discover dragonflies hurt like the dickens too. About like a rock.

 

[Jstpssng]

If you ride a motorcycle you'll discover dragonflies hurt like the dickens too. About like a rock.

So does a bee when he gets into your helmet.

 

[Hay Dude]

We got those cicada-killer wasps that hunt them around here.
Guess the wasps will have a trophy season and use all their “cicada tags”. lol

 

[p0opstlnksal0t]

We see those every spring in Houston. Never noticed a year that had more or less than other years

 

[Diggin It]

This is what they sound like. I probably won't be bothered by them as it sounds exactly like my tinnitus.

That's me. I probably can't hear them over the 17 batches of 17 year versions inside my head.

 

[czechsonofagun]

Kohoutek?

Where does that come from?

 

[lman]

Years ago I heard crickets in the summer, now I them year round, even when there's snow on the ground.

 

[MossRoad]

Where does that come from?

Comet Kahoutek was hyped up to be the most brilliant comet since sliced bread and it was a bust. Very anticlimactic.

Now the news is abuzz (I threw in a pun there) with cicadas.

Has anyone seen them yet?

If so, where?

 

[/pine]

...Has anyone seen them yet?

If so, where?...

The day I started the thread there was a report from several counties in N GA that up to 1.5mm cicadas were emerging per acre...

They’re here: Cicadas are coming out of the ground as part of Brood X

We warned you the cicadas are coming. And now we have proof they are here.

www.wsbtv.com

 

[czechsonofagun]

Comet Kahoutek was hyped up to be the most brilliant comet since sliced bread and it was a bust. Very anticlimactic.

Now the news is abuzz (I threw in a pun there) with cicadas.

Has anyone seen them yet?

If so, where?

Thank you. It just Kohoutek means little rooster in Czech language and there are quite few people with Kohoutek as last name.

 

[ChuckT]

Thank you. I did not know that Kohoutek was a Czech word. (My paternal family line is Czech in origin).

 

[Diggin It]

When life bugs you ....


.... eat it.

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2021-05-19/a-pizza-recipe-with-artichoke-mozzarella-and-cicadas

Freaked by cicada swarms? You could just stick a fork in 'em

NEW YORK (AP) — Cicadas are poised to infest whole swaths of American backyards this summer. Maybe it's time they invaded your kitchen.

apnews.com

 

[kenmbz]

We have not seen/heard many here, but across the Delaware in NJ, Friend says her chickens are have a field day with the swarm in the yard.