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Tue Oct-04-05 08:11 AM
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OK, they aren't really locusts; they're cicadas.
In my home state (SC), in late summer/early fall, as kids we'd find the "locust" shells on trees and on the ground. I understand the insects pupate underground, come above ground and shed their skins.
Do you find these in your state/country?
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Tue Oct-04-05 08:18 AM
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Always makes me look around for baby Aliens.
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Tue Oct-04-05 08:20 AM
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2. Yes in TX, too. We notice them because they're so loud! nt |
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Tue Oct-04-05 08:45 AM
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12. They are extremely loud! |
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Tue Oct-04-05 09:21 AM
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16. oooowwweeeeeeee, ooooowwwwwweeeeee ! |
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Tue Oct-04-05 08:21 AM
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3. Yes in north and central Alabama |
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I've seen them all my life.
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Tue Oct-04-05 08:21 AM
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4. Show your kids something neat |
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If you peek through the eyes of the shell, you'll notice that they magnify what you're looking at (short range). Way cool.
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Tue Oct-04-05 08:31 AM
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Tue Oct-04-05 08:24 AM
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5. This has worried me.... |
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When I was a kid, we would find them everywhere....
20 years later when I wanted to show them to my own kids, we couldn't find any. :(
this was in NE Colorado and SE Nebraska.
Where did they go? I'm afraid the pesticides have killed them off. :(
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Tue Oct-04-05 08:27 AM
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7. You might remember the 17-year kind. They only |
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crawl up from the ground, oh, every 17 years or so.
Some areas have ordinary ol' cicadas, some have 17-year, some have both (and others).
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Tue Oct-04-05 08:32 AM
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9. That would be my guess too. nt |
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Tue Oct-04-05 08:25 AM
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The sounds of late summer.
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Tue Oct-04-05 08:43 AM
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10. All through the midwest and down into Mexico |
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There is nothing better than a sweet summer afternoon nap with cicadas and songbirds and a house critter or two curled up in your lap.
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Tue Oct-04-05 08:44 AM
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They really grossed me out as a child.
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Tue Oct-04-05 08:52 AM
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13. Since I get to listen to them all summer |
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I'd be surprised if i didn't.
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Tue Oct-04-05 09:05 AM
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14. Just had some in Arkansas. They seem to be gone again. |
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Tue Oct-04-05 09:24 AM
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17. I love the cicada song |
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finding their alien shells all over the place is a little less romantic.
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Tue Oct-04-05 09:44 AM
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18. Wouldn't be summer in OK without them. |
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It's the noise that I miss when I travel, believe it or not!
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Tue Oct-04-05 10:02 AM
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19. The kids and I enjoy finding those. The live ones are more fun, though. |
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Lots of 'em around these parts. What's even more fun, though, is to find and observe the live cicadas. We'll occasionally come across a live one in the process of shedding it's shell, or just crawling around doing it's thing. They seem to like lantana for some reason. Anyway, we've found several live ones this year. We'll observe them and even pick them up and let them crawl around on our hands and arms. It tickles quite a bit.
Cicadas are COOL!
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