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CICADA that is! Peculiar and very noisy critter. This is their year...2004! Dunno what they are? Read a bit about them below. I've included a few pics of their deluge at my house as well.

Cicada

They don't hurt you. I even let one walk on me. I was curious if it would bite...but it didn't even try. They molt and then sit for an hour or so...flickering their wings, to dry them I guess, and then fly away to the woods. There has to be millions of them in the woods at the edge of our property. At times, their mating sound is ear drum shattering!

Another pic of what they left behind at my house.....

Maybe they're looking for Pixies-Place. I understand all they want to do is fuck!










(smart critter ;) )

Very interesting...I have been reading up a little bit about cicadas...as I understand it they have been in the ground for 17 years this time, and this "infestation" is touted as being the worst ever!

Nature has a place for everything, but darned if I can figure what these are for! My understanding is that they stay in the ground til it is time for them to come out... they fly around, eat and breed and then 6 weeks later they die. Then in a decade, their "children" come out to play!

Mr. Lix was laughing at me one day. I saw one caught up in a spider web and I watched for a few minutes as it struggled to get out. I kept thinking to myself that it had just spent an hour or so struggling to get out of it's shell and now it's come to this end after waiting some 17 years to be free???!! I couldn't leave it in the web to struggle and die. I freed it and Mr. Lix said, "There are millions of them and only the strong survive...what the hell are you doing?" I shrugged, thinking...it'll probably get eaten by a bird before it gets to the woods, but at least I gave it one more chance to mate!

I eventually washed as many of the shells off the tree as I could. It just looked icky.....

Good for you lixy! I would have felt the same way. I'm surprised they are not extinct with all the chemicals we use on our lawns now. Someday they might be.

Take lots of pics Lixy. There will be kids in 16 years that won't believe you when you tell them what's coming. ;)

For those of us who have them (well a variety of them) alllll the time it's cute watching all the hub bub. My kids like to come to me wearing the shells.

They don't have time to come to Pixies PF! They are having a fuck fest in the woods at the moment! Well...can't hear them so much today cause it's raining and on the chilly side and they don't seem to be so horny when the weather isn't clear and hot. Curious, huh?

They are really cool Chey! I love interacting with things that happen only rarely. I studied the one I had walking on me on an up close and personal basis. I was in awe of it's eyes. And...as close as I was to it, it may have been in awe of mine as well! LOL!

Another (less) rare thing will happen this Wednesday folks! Click below for a link to Star Gazer, with Jack Horkheimer...then scroll down the page to May 24, 2004 - May 30, 2004..."The Biggest Full Moon Of The Year Rides Across The Sky"...and click the RealPlayer vid to see the happenings that'll be going on!

Star Gazer

And...the last of my cicada pics...they left no leaf bare, but left their shells everywhere!

LOL CGT! Hubby sprayed the lawn just yesterday, as a matter of fact. We have ants this year like they are going out of style! I made him wait though, till most of the cicada's had done their thing and flew off to the woods! He thinks I'm a kook too!

I do have lots of pics PF! I just edited a few for here. I wish I could get you all some audio on these bugs. It's infuckincredible!

OMG Lil! The shells are rather clingy things...ain't they? Yuck! I prefer the live bugs to touching the shells. I put my gardening gloves on and knock them off things when I find a laden spot. *shivers* Ewwwwwww!

***If you tried to click the StarGazer link before and didn't get anything...I think I fixed it now***

Lixy, fried Cicado are a treat in some parts of the world.

I've heard that Scarecrow! I think folks round these parts eat them like that! I'd have to be pretty hungry to give em a try...but hey...I'll try just about anything at least once!

*crunch*

BTW...do they filet them and take the wings off before they fry them? LOL!

*^5's Sharni*

I dunno what it is about em...but they got my full attention and I like em too! I think Mr. Lixy just likes running them over with the tractor/mower though...*smacks him upside the head*...lol!

yuck...bugs!!!!