17 year cicadas are baaaaaaccckkkkk!!!!!!!

In The Sticks

In The Sticks

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Move over, COVID! The CICADAS are here!!!!

Every 17 years these things emerge from underground to terrorize us night and day for a month or so. It is something out of science fiction, and now we got these bugs on top of The Bug.

Girls scream in horror!
Dogs gorge themselves until they get sick!

Here's a clip from a partial brood emerging early a few years ago:

 

In The Sticks said:
Move over, COVID! The CICADAS are here!!!!

Every 17 years these things emerge from underground to terrorize us night and day for a month or so. It is something out of science fiction, and now we got these bugs on top of The Bug.

Girls scream in horror!
Dogs gorge themselves until they get sick!

Here's a clip from a partial brood emerging early a few years ago:

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we have them in the area near our home in Southern Spain... I love the sound of cicadas on a warm summers night ... . .

We don't have them here !
 

hollydolly said:
we have them in the area near our home in Southern Spain... I love the sound of cicadas on a warm summers night ... . .

We don't have them here !
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We have cicadas here year round, too, but not the invading hordes that these species are.

I have friends move from elsewhere in the country and they have no idea where the constant Sci Fi noise is coming from. Lord knows that this will do to them!
 
We don't get them here in Northwestern Ontario.

Every few years we get invaded by the caterpillars called army worms. Even the birds won't eat them. And then they cover the highways and are run over by cars and they smell to high heaven. On the railroad tracks they cause the wheels to slip.
They even cover the sides of houses. They consume the leaves of trees. In some areas they strip the tree.

And then in the fall they become moths and are all over the street lights.

The moth and the flame and they play a dangerous game.
 
And we are again blessed with Florida's famous Love Bugs. The season is just beginning but does not appear to be as bad as it was last year.

They don't bite but will ruin the finish on your car unless washed off immediately.
 
I’ve never , ever seen them where we live either or anywhere for that matter, which is why I looked it up and the information said that they are in places in Canada. Love bugs we do get.
 
Aneeda72 said:
Horse flies, yuck
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We used to vacation across from Assateague Island on the coast of Maryland. Assateague and Chincoteague (across the border in Virginia) have a wild horse population. Camping at Assateague state park is a horrid experience because of those flies. It's an act of self-abuse. Heck, we would camp across the bay from there and the flies would migrate for their pound of flesh.
 
Pinky said:
Our first dog had a chunk taken out of his face by a horse-fly. He forever had a little scar there, on his forehead where the fur didn't grow back.
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When we first moved to the country I used to take our shepherd on long walks and they bit her ears so badly that she had bald patches that would bleed. They were so bad there’d be a bunch chomping on her ears all at once. Most of the fur grew back though. Once I saw that I made some natural repellent on her and it kept most of them away. There are horrible things that bite hard. Horseflies in our area are horrible for about 2 weeks. Then they seem to disappear
 
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Well, if we're going to discuss returning pests (that aren't relatives), I'll submit the State Bird of Texas.

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