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Cicadas are preparing to uproot my yard *PICS*

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Originally posted by: Slacker
[Cliff Claven voice] Heres a little known fact about the Cicada, if you pull both wings off, their head pops off! [/Cliff Claven voice]



More fun with cicadas
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Also used to put them in the old metal Band-Aid boxes and pretend we were shaving with an electric razor! LOL -ptflamingo

bwahahahahhahahah!
 
Originally posted by: Shelly21
Originally posted by: sonambulo
get some huge nets and seal them over the lawn. when the cicadas die, you can fry 'em up and eat 'em(no joke).
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True story.
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dang you are a southerner aren't you?

But true, they are one of the best insects to eat. If anyone is ever out in the wild without food, find ya some cicadas.
 
Wow, holes in the lawns down here in Houston usually indicate crawdads. But I do have childhood memories of cicadas when I lived in upstate NY.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Shelly21
Originally posted by: sonambulo
get some huge nets and seal them over the lawn. when the cicadas die, you can fry 'em up and eat 'em(no joke).
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True story.
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dang you are a southerner aren't you?

But true, they are one of the best insects to eat. If anyone is ever out in the wild without food, find ya some cicadas.
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No sir, I'm English, but I grew up in Ohio. I knew about cicadas becuase one of my southern friend was telling me about the once in a lifetime cicadas swarm.
 
They are fun to stab through the ass with a fishing hook, then cast into the air, holding down the reel button. They will pull the line waaaay out, then you can reel them back in 😀

At least, that's what I did a few times as a kid. 😀
 
looks like someone aired the lawn (with that big steel drum thing)

some people may know what i am talking about... heh
 
I like the sounds the make - it's like the frogs that create so much noise here in FL after a large rain, I find the sound to be calming.

Geeze, no use in killing them, they're harmless bugs :roll: They're beneficial to trees because they act as natural tree pruners, which means that trees will grow back fuller and stronger in the years to follow. Fruit trees have MUCH higher fruit yields in the years the proceed these events. They also airate the ground, lessening soil compaction which greatly helps plants. They might be a nuisance to you, but they help the environment and ecosystem out greatly.
 
I work in the landscape industry in the Princeton area of NJ. I am finding tons of cicadas in the ground when I dig holes for a tree. Going to be a noisy summer..
 
I remember them in Baltimore when I was a kid. Our home movies from that summer are filled with loud, obnoxious background noise of cicadas. I think they're really annoying.
 
Originally posted by: rbloedow
I like the sounds the make - it's like the frogs that create so much noise here in FL after a large rain, I find the sound to be calming.

Geeze, no use in killing them, they're harmless bugs :roll: They're beneficial to trees because they act as natural tree pruners, which means that trees will grow back fuller and stronger in the years to follow. Fruit trees have MUCH higher fruit yields in the years the proceed these events. They also airate the ground, lessening soil compaction which greatly helps plants. They might be a nuisance to you, but they help the environment and ecosystem out greatly.
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I find the whole process fascinating to watch and I like the noise as well. It just amazes me that they only get a month to live after spending 17 years in the ground.
 
ok, if you're going to cook cicadas make sure you get tenerals (the really young ones just emerging from the ground. their shells have not yet hardened). a good substitute is a mature female. their abdomens are filled with fat whereas males have an empty abdomen.

an easy one from shanghai:

Ingredients
Cicadas, anises, salt, rice wine, mashed garlic, celery, turnip greens.

Recipe
1. Boil the cicadas and anises in salted rice wine for five minutes, then remove the cicadas.
2. Sauté the mashed garlic, adding water and rice wine to make a paste.
3. Deep-fry the cicadas, then skewer them with bamboo picks. Arrange them on a plate with the turnip greens, celery, and garlic paste to look like the cicadas are climbing out of a mud pie onto green foliage.

Bon appetit!

edit:

more here:http://directory.google.com/Top/Home/Cooking/Wild_Foods/Insects/?tc=1
 
Hm, well the last "17 years" happened to chicago about 13 or 14 years ago, so they must do tag team by region. Man those things make a huge mess everywhere. Very cool though. The eyes glow from behind and when they are dying/dead the eyes go dim.
 
Somehow i've lived in the chicago area for quite a while now on and off and have never seen the full brunt of these beasts.
 
are those the same ones that make that distinctive mating call noises in japan and korea? I've never heard them here in US
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Shelly21
Originally posted by: sonambulo
get some huge nets and seal them over the lawn. when the cicadas die, you can fry 'em up and eat 'em(no joke).
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True story.
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dang you are a southerner aren't you?

But true, they are one of the best insects to eat. If anyone is ever out in the wild without food, find ya some cicadas.
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Yup, they're good with grits too. 😀
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
Somehow i've lived in the chicago area for quite a while now on and off and have never seen the full brunt of these beasts.
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Pretty sure it was '91, might have been '90. The noise rolls in waves and the sidewalks are black and crunchy. I remember thinking it was odd, because the movie Lucas (from a couple years prior) was set in the burbs and had the critters putting in a cameo - which obviously didn't jibe with the whole 17 year cycle.
 
Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
Originally posted by: sonambulo
get some huge nets and seal them over the lawn. when the cicadas die, you can fry 'em up and eat 'em(no joke).
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You guys are crazy.

Bay Area, CA > *

We got beaches and hot wimmens... ...and illegals 🙁
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I live in the bay area too.
 
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