[AT] O/T 17 year locusts

[Mike Sloane]

Actually, aside from the noise and mess, they are completely harmless. 
They emerge, mate, lay their eggs on the ends of tree branches, and die. 
That is where the mess comes in - lots and lots of very big dead bugs.

Mike

Ralph Goff wrote:

> 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/
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Cullom <jhcullom at adelphia.net>
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> Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 4:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] O/T 17 year locusts
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> 
>>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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