The swarm is coming!

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  1. anpgp

    anpgp Dragon Wrasse

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    I stepped outside today and all I hear is this loud buzzing filling the entire woods. I knew this year was supposed to be bad for cicadas but man alive the intensity of them outside right now is a little creepy. I wish I could record it and play it on here. I've heard some crazy things in the woods before but this one takes the cake.
     
    anpgp, May 27, 2011
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  2. Corailline

    Corailline Super Moderator

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    It is a dry heat, yeah right !
    Sounds like bad sound effects from an old sci-fi movie. I just read that the noise can actually do hearing damage. Starts here in AZ next month.
     
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  3. rc_mcwaters3

    rc_mcwaters3 Clown Trigger

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    year round here and they are bad this year but they only come out like every 10-11 years i belive
     
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  4. dowtish

    dowtish Horrid Stonefish

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    They have taken over here in TN. I like the part in the horror movie when I drive my truck and massacre hundreds of them.;) But I somehow think it's stupidity on their part, they are not very good fliers, considering they just spent well over the last decade in the ground, it kinda makes sense.
     
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  5. dowtish

    dowtish Horrid Stonefish

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    it's 13 and 17 year cycles
     
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  6. rc_mcwaters3

    rc_mcwaters3 Clown Trigger

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    ahhhhhhhhh ;D ;D ;D ;D i knew it was somthing like that LOL
     
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  7. anpgp

    anpgp Dragon Wrasse

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    Yeah, they are year round here too, but what's going on outside right now is just pure buzzing madness!
     
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  8. dowtish

    dowtish Horrid Stonefish

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  9. Dingo

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    thats odd, we had ours like maybe 4-5 years ago...
    anyways, totally random but 409 cleaning solution kills them on the spot.

    also have you heard about the people who eat them!!? EWWW
     
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  10. anpgp

    anpgp Dragon Wrasse

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    Ummm, do you have a fleet of firetrucks full of 409? 6 acres of wooded land can hold a lot of cicadas!
     
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