Swarming my yard

[r0GuE]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Gatorboy
Thanks for clarifying. I guess out of site, out of mind. I never figured they were living a life beneath the trees, but I guess they're like any other sub-earth dweller. I told my Son he would be twenty years old the next time he sees them...I don't think he cared /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Kevin )</font>

1994 (give or take a year) there were trillions of those things in Jim Thorpe PA. We camping at a mountain bike weekend. They were EVERYWHERE and the were LOUD AS HECK!!!
Maybe it goes by area???? It wasn't 17 years ago, thats for sure.

 

[ljh2]

Rogue,
There are several different kinds of periodic cicada. The ones you had were probably the 13 year type.

 

[Gatorboy]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( It wasn't 17 years ago, thats for sure. )</font>

This website (scroll a third down) shows each of the Broods and when they emerge and in what portions of the country. This year is Brood X.

They emerge in portions of PA during Broods II, V, VIII, X, XIV. Brood II was in '96.

 

[fivestring]

Bait up those hooks!
The bass are waitin for dinner!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Boondox]

I heard on the news this morning that some poor fellow decided to try eating them. Said they were okay, but he had an allergic reaction to them the same as his shellfish allergy! Who would have thunk!!? Pete

 

[EddieWalker]

I looked at the link Gatorboy listed and saw all the ones listed, but not the ones we had last year.

Do they also have green ones? These are huge and you find the empty shell of them on trees, wall and lawn furniture with a slit open on the back.

Everyone around this part of East Texas calls them Locust, but the locust I'm used to are just large grass hoppers, not these monsters.

 

[jinman]

When I was a kid we used to catch them and tie sewing thread around their heads behind those big protruding eyes. Then, we'd let out about 10' of thread and let them fly in circles. ...redneck remote control, I guess. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[PineRidge]

I haven't seen or heard any yet in Northeast Ohio. Maybe we will get lucky and won't see any. I know my bass would like them though.