Who's being invaded by underground creatures today?

Count me in they were all over the sidewalk this morning. Supposed to get a lot worse. However, they aren't quite as big as the ones back home in Houston. And their black with red eyes. I think the cicada sound in the trees is peaceful.

 

They fly around, mate, lay eggs, then die, don't go back underground. Apparently the smell of decaying bugs is pretty rank for a couple of days. Thankfully we don't deal with this swarm here.

Haven't seen as many cicadas in Houston the past few years as opposed to when I was a kid. I have no idea why.

 

A locust (sp). Those things are all over the Houston area. They are loud.

 

Proactive measures would have taken care of this problem....

 

I don't live in Houston anymore but they were all over the place when I was a kid, as well. They leave those exoskeletons (shells) strapped to the pines.

 

They are not locusts. Locusts look like very large grasshoppers. Cicadas are commonly mislabeled as such.

 

yeah...they're here in Houston...but nothing like what happens on the east coast every 17 years.

 

They're <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brood_X">Brood X</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada">Cicadas</a>. The <a href="http://www.cincinnati.com/freetime/cicadas/">Cincinnati Enquirer has a great page on them</a>.

 

cicada

\Ci*ca"da\ (s[i^]*k[=a]"d[.a]), n.; pl. E. Cicadas (-d[.a]z), L. Cicad[ae] (-d[=e]). [L.] (Zo["o]l.) Any species of the genus Cicada. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species (C. septendecim) is called the seventeen year locust.

 

<a href="http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2004/May04/r051104" target="_blank">all you need to know about Cicada</a>

 

I used to hate that sound in Houston. The song of the cicadas used to be my summer alarm clock. Their exoskeletons made great battles with my action figures. I haven't lived in Houston for 12 years, so I actually miss that sound every morning. I can still hear it in my head every now and then if it's exceptionally hot and humid outside. I have to take a moment to realize that it is my imagination.

 

What about cicada killers? Those things are huge! I had one crawl up my shorts while drving once. (I think it would be a great name for a blues band too "The Cicada Killers")

 

My front yard back home is full of those. I've seen much bigger than that one, my dad calls them C-130's. He used to be in the airforce.

 

Suppose to get some here soon, either today or tommorow, gotta get my baseball bat ready

 

Yea Cincy is suppose to get hit hard, and theres a Blink 182 concert in Cincy next thursday a few of my friends are going to. I live about an hour north from cincy so it should be a new experience, i wasnt old enough to remember the last time it happened

 

are cicadas also called june bugs? i used to see alot of cicadas but i just called them june bugs

 

No you dumbass. June bugs are small beetles; nowhere even close to a cicada.



Sorry.