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.

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.

Dig this.

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.

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

Harmless???

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!

I knew it! Somehow, I always did!