[AT] O/T 17 year locusts

[Dave Rotigel]

Hi Ralph,
    Cicadas are not related to grasshoppers and do not eat crops. You can
fine out all about them at: http://www.cicadaville.com/
    Dave
PS,
http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/Michigan_Cicadas/Periodical/Index.html
is also a VERY good site for information on cicadas!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] O/T 17 year locusts


> I hope those cicadas you guys have there do not eat like our hordes of
> grasshoppers did last summer. I think they might be related but I don't
> recall much sound from the hoppers. Now crickets are a different story (or
> song). Crickets have a real rythmic chirping that some people do find
> annoying. I hardly notice them and they don't bother me at all.
> So far I don't think this year's crop of grasshoppers have hatched , at
> least I haven't seen any yet. The predictions are not good though. With
the
> high population last year they laid plenty of eggs just waiting in the
> ground to hatch. The cool spring has delayed them but any day now I expect
> to see the little green hoppers starting to feed on the new crops growing
in
> the fields.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
> http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Cullom <jhcullom at adelphia.net>
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 4:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] O/T 17 year locusts
>
>
> > They've been around Baltimore/Washington for the last month. Thousands
of
> > 'em, & you can hear them from inside your car traveling down the highway
> > with the windows up & the radio on. They make 2 kinds of noise, the
> familiar
> > hissing sound & also a kind of high pitched whistle, like in the old
> > Japanese monster movies with the overgrown bugs. But now with the cooler
> > weather we've been having, they've pretty much died off. Haven't had a
one
> > up here in Westminster though. I work in the fire department in
Baltimore
> > County, & we've had 2 car wrecks blamed on the cicadas flying in &
> startling
> > the drivers.
> > John
> > Westminster, Md.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Cecil E Monson" <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
> > > I watched a little golf this afternoon which was being played
> > > somewhere in Ohio. The noise from the 17 year locusts - cicadas - made
> > > it difficult to hear what was being said sometimes. I guess this is
> > > the year for these things to show up but we don't have any yet. Does
> > > anyone anywhere but Ohio already have them up and making noise?  Or
> > > are they only by that one golf course and nowhere else?  ;-)
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