name of bug

Norma · Post by **Norma** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 11:45 am

A while back there was a thread about a large bug that only appears every 17 years...What was it called (my daughter wants to research...she's into bugs)?

starman · Post by **starman** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 11:51 am

That would be cicada I think.

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 11:52 am

It's a cicada. It isn't that they only APPEAR every 17 years (there are cicadas in the South every summer), but that their life cycle keeps them underground as larvae for years before they emerge as adults. This particular group of adults is a particularly large one, and emerges in a 17-year-cycle...so this year there are considerably more cicadas than there are in normal years...huge numbers of them, really.

Redwolf

DebbieM · Post by **DebbieM** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 11:55 am

They were cicadas. I did a search -- the link to that topic on C&F is:

http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php ... sc&start=0

There's even diagrams for making an origame cicada later in the topic.

Debbie

Musical_Midnight · Post by **Musical_Midnight** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 11:55 am

Norma wrote:A while back there was a thread about a large bug that only appears every 17 years...What was it called (my daughter wants to research...she's into bugs)?

Although I probably wasn't here for that thread, I think it's the Cicada.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 12:30 pm

Let me see...I'll just open the back door and check. (loud, incessant, high-pitched hum from the trees, abandoned brown husks all over the back of the house, several red-eyed flyers crashed headfirst into the car.)
Yes. that would be Cicada. Pronounced Sih-KAY-duh.

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 12:32 pm

Not to be confused with the Secada:

missy · Post by **missy** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 1:11 pm

here's a link for you from right in the heart of "brood X"

http://www.cincinnati.com/freetime/cicadas/

you CANNOT carry on a conversation outside right now. Luckily, they stop at night!
We have about 3 weeks more of this to go. One of our boxers eats them, the other stamps on them.
Since I have a 17 year old son, I have a real handy "reminder" of when these things come back.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 1:43 pm

missy wrote: Since I have a 17 year old son, I have a real handy "reminder" of when these things come back.

My oldest daughter was also an infant during the last emergence...I do remember her sitting in her car seat while cicadas screamed from the trees in Northern Virginia.

Chuck_Clark · Post by **Chuck_Clark** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 4:32 pm

I'm beginning to feel ignored by Mother Nature.

In another thread, Jane talked about the flooding in the Chicago subbies. Forty miles south of here, to the West in Iowa and East in Indiana, more flooding. Here we're about normal to a little low on annual rainfall.

Tornados struck Tuesday night in all directions - we never even hear a single peal of thunder.

Cicadas are a scourge everywhere. here I'm seeing even less cicada shells than usual (none to be exact).

I guess being the forgotten child isn't that bad after all.

missy · Post by **missy** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 5:30 pm

awww, Chuck, I'll be nice to ya and send you, oh, a few thousand or so. I know I can find THAT many just in my back yard!!!

We've gone to having "cicada checks" whenever we enter the house or the building at work. The little buggers hitch a ride in on your clothing. When you go to get them off, the males start yelling at you.

chas · Post by **chas** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 6:57 pm

Chuck_Clark wrote:Cicadas are a scourge everywhere.

Cicadas aren't a scourge at all unless you're an orchard owner or have other small trees. So, the grub shells (leftovers from molting) have been stinking for about a week, I get a few splats on my windshield every day, and it sounds like someone has a slipping fan belt about a block away. Constantly.

I would call a scourge the summers in New England when the gypsy moths are going nuts. Entire hillsides defoliated, trains stuck in valleys and cars not able to get up driveways because of the slippery biomass of the caterpillars -- that's a scourge.

I look on the positive side. As a result of the cicadas, my yard got a free aeration. My 3-year-old has a new hobby.

tommyk · Post by **tommyk** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 7:01 pm

There are many different kinds of cidadae; we get them every year 'round "these" parts. It's the "Cicada Magi" genus species which are the 17 year variety.

Byll · Post by **Byll** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 7:28 pm

You and me, Chuck. We have almost no cicadas in our little corner of the world. I would like to know the reason...I don't know any bug guys...
Cheers.
Byll

vomitbunny · Post by **vomitbunny** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 7:58 pm

I havn't seen or heard any here. I remember them up in Tennessee, and I was expecting huge flocks of them. Supposidly they are really good to eat. I thought at the least they'd make good doggie treats.

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