We miss out on the 17 year cicadas here, but I understand they are hitting some surrounding counties...here we get the 13 year ones, they last hit us in '98...they're ugly & dumb as rocks, but they don't hurt anything (except maybe some very young & tender trees & bushes that the females lay their eggs in)...I've seen birds stuff themselves so full of cicadas they can't fly, & dogs think of 'em as "puppy popcorn"...
Oh, & Lixy...I've always thought the shells they leave behind are the coolest thing about 'em...I always wondered what they were as a kid, & at least that part doesn't make any noise...
When i refer to cicadas as dumb, it's because they fly mindlessly into everything & everybody...one of them got under the waistband of a lady I know, & she had to take her pants off in front of a whole crowd of people to get rid of the lil bastard...

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