General Cycling Discussion - Cicadas!!

anyone scared?

Of Cicadas why? There just noisy

I hate those things....

GIMME A TORCH!!! BURN BURN BURN!!!!!! :fight:

They taste like asparagus

They taste like asparagus

In a few days they will probably be saying the same thing about you.

I'm not really scared... but I think they will make for some interesting summer biking experiences...

They taste like asparagus

Shoot, they taste way better than asparagus. :D

Nope.

Cicadas are awesome.

They're even better when they slam into your face at 25-30 MPH.

I can't wait!

They're coming up! My backyard has plenty of holes in it already.

I keep wandering the yard looking for them but I haven't seen any yet. I have my camera ready and everything.

You should hear the tree frogs we have every year down here.

MK - Get the hose out and soak an area of ground that you are positive was under a tree 17 years ago. That will bring 'em up.

I went outside after I posted last night, and BOTH cicadias and the tree frogs were chirping and honking like mad.

Yeah, we have a few starting to pop out in my backyard. After last nights rain I suspect the inavasion is soon.

I am just tired of hearing the news stations talking about the damn things.

Think PROTEIN..... far more protein than those teeny tiny no-seeums.....

Last time the cicadas were out, I was on the C&O canal in Wash DC. Woke up one morning and was staring eye to eye with one. I was in a Clip Flashlight, inpenatrable tent for crying out loud. Have no idea how it got in there. Shell thingy on one side and a white flying thing right next to it with red eyes, on my ceiling!

At night I could hear them crawling around or something under my tent.

Last time the cicadas were out, I was on the C&O canal in Wash DC. Woke up one morning and was staring eye to eye with one. I was in a Clip Flashlight, inpenatrable tent for crying out loud. Have no idea how it got in there. Shell thingy on one side and a white flying thing right next to it with red eyes, on my ceiling!

At night I could hear them crawling around or something under my tent.


Creepy lil bastards, aren't they.

How is "Cicadas" pronounced?

Si (as in 'silk') - Kay - dah

Accent is on the 2nd syllable

How is "Cicadas" pronounced?

sick-A-does edit---nevermind, 165's is a bit more correct.

Check out Dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cicadas) for a more formal pronunciation key.

During summers in Texas it always seemed to raise the temperature ten degrees when they started their screeching. They would sing in waves, first one treeful and then the next, and the next...

I confess to a slight case of entomophobia, so imagine my discomfort one day when one flew into the car and set about buzzing and skipping to and fro on my dashboard. The public at large was imperiled for some few minutes until I was able to eject the ugly little brute.

I know they aren't dangerous, but they still give me the creeps.

The AP wire service had a story out yesterday about this guy that ended up in the hospital due to his encounter with cicadas. It seems that he ate too many of them (about 30 or so). After adding various spices and flavors etc. he sat down to a cicada supper. It turns out that some people are allergic to cicadas, as our chef was. So, before offering up a buggy delight to your dinner guests, ask if they've ever had allergic reactions to cicadas (ingested).

One of my European bike tours was in the Provence area..We stayed in the village of Bonnieux. ( Great cycling-daily biked hills to ruined castle of Marquis de Saud, on the easiest approach to Mt. Ventoux, with its' stinking lavender fields, & as far west as to a corkscrew museum)..But anyway...The European version of the Cicadas exists in prolific numbers..Loved listening to them from the patio..Noisy little bXstardz. Took over at dusk...
Would see them in the pool in the am...
But my wife was so intriqued with them...We bought several bars of soap made in their image..Mad at wife, using last Cicadas soap up right now.. My favorite bar of bug soap.
Anyone wants to see how gorgeous this country is...See the movie "Swimming Pool." was filmed in our town of Bonnieux( in valley called Luberon.).Awesome biking full of Cicadas.. (forget French spelling). I can hear the Cicadas every time I wash my hands.

...crunch munch munch "Not too bad once you get past the legs..."

What movie? :D

Yeah, it's probably the end of the world. (just like Y2K, every earthquake, and hurricane, and whenever a lunatic preacher says so)

Anyone want to sign their house over to me?

I think they are really aliens coming to infest our brains!!!! AGHHH AGHHHHHH AAAAGGHHHHHHH!!!!!! (I know a guy that if he reads this. He will believe it. Because it's ON THE INTERNET) He will be telling me one of these things and believe it 110%. I laugh so hard that I have to bite a hole in my lip and almost pi$$ down my leg.

anyone scared?
when the cicadas start singing here in Iowa, it means it's about 6 weeks til the first frost.

These brood X cicadas are slightly smaller than the yearly ones in Iowa. The brood X ones are a dark blue with brilliant red eyes as contrasted to the greenish ones in Iowa. Their song is also different, a bit lower and more of an oscillating hum, rather than the buzz saw sound. And, the brood X ones are every where -- they leave an oily stain on the roads where they get crushed and, rather than an occassional shell on a tree trunk, there are hundreds of shells on every tree.

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/images/I34717-2004May17L

http://media.washingtonpost.com/920/webcams/snowcam.jpg

Dig this (http://www.machall.com/index.php?strip_id=271).

Cicadas are alright by me. It's those damn banana spiders that I can't stand! Those, and the biggo black and red grasshoppers in Louisiana; they're like small birds!

Oh come now, ain't nothing wrong with the Romalea guttata. Lubber grasshoppers can provide hours of fun if you're keen on racing them. :p

anyone scared?

Be scared ... be VERY scared: (link below)

Harmless??? (http://www.cicadaville.com)

They started singing today!!!!!!!!

I feel fortunate to have lived long enough that this will be the third hatching I have seen! If any of you like to fish, they are great fish bait!

Be scared ... be VERY scared: (link below)

Harmless??? (http://www.cicadaville.com)

I knew it! Somehow, I always did! :eek: