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| Cicada-geddon: emergence of insects compared to a 'horror movie' | |
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| Topic Started: Feb 16 2016, 01:05 PM (139 Views) | |
| Kahu | Feb 16 2016, 01:05 PM Post #1 |
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Cicada-geddon: emergence of insects compared to a 'horror movie' Posted Image Cicadas have been "pouring out of the ground" thanks to the warm, dry weather in Wellington, Victoria University professor of entomology and ecology Phil Lester said. "It's been a really nice warm spell and that will promote their emergence... right now they'll be crawling out of the ground and going onto the trees, and the pressure is on to mate." He said the loud singing was the desperate call of the male cicadas trying to attract a mate. Source Link |
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| Trotsky | Feb 17 2016, 12:42 AM Post #2 |
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I have been through several of the 17 year cicada would-be blooms. I get all hyped up and have yet to see or hear a single cicada. Like Haley's comet, it is not something I am destined to see. |
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| FuzzyO | Feb 17 2016, 01:53 AM Post #3 |
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That's odd, even in urban settings here we certainly have them. |
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| Trotsky | Feb 17 2016, 04:21 AM Post #4 |
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Last time around, I was even trolling the parks of Northern NJ. Despite dire warnings of their incredible noisiness likely sounding like a plane taking off, I detected nothing. My hearing is okay, I can hear a fly or a mosquito buzzing nearby but never a cicada. (And Mr. Halley can take a flying leap with his comet. I waited with baited breath from when I was a kid in 1950 until 1986 to see NOTHING. And I will not be around in 2061 for the next show or no-show. It can smack into the Earth for all I care. signs081 ) So Alan, are you seeing thousands of cicada "pouring out of the ground?" Edited by Trotsky, Feb 17 2016, 04:33 AM.
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| Dana | Feb 17 2016, 06:39 AM Post #5 |
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WWS Hummingbird Guru & Wildlife photographer extrordinaire
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I hear cicadas every summer but have yet to see one as they are always high up in the evergreen trees, here. The house I grew up in, in Toronto, had a front porch with rocking chairs on it. During the junebug season, every few years, it would be hard not to crunch them under the runners of the chairs as we rocked. |
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| Durgan | Feb 17 2016, 08:16 AM Post #6 |
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I don't ever remember seeing the Cicada-geddon. I have encountered the Box elder bugs, Boisea trivittatus, in large numbers in Port Dover at a friends place a few years ago. Apparently harmless. And fish flies traveling through Illinois on year. They were about six inches deep on the ground under motel street lights. They exuded a sewer odor as they rotted. |
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| FuzzyO | Feb 17 2016, 08:51 AM Post #7 |
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June bugs! I remember one year the cats gorged on them night after night, regurgitating them in the mornings, but tucking in again and again. I guess they taste good. |
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| Kahu | Feb 17 2016, 09:00 AM Post #8 |
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We don't have the 17 year cicada cycle ... our 40 odd species of cicadas come out every year, from the sea shore to the alpine areas. NZ Cicadas It's just more noticeable this year because it's been so warm. |
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| Durgan | Feb 17 2016, 12:17 PM Post #9 |
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June bugs or more correct beetle encompasses many similar insects. The name is local and applies to many beetles. My concern is the: Japanese Beetle and European Crane Fly - adult is a "Texas" mosquito. Posted Image Both are not natives to NA but are serious spreading pests. One year the European Crane Fly , leather jacket larvae destroyed almost all my seedlings. I scooped them up by the handful. Posted Image Posted Image Salvation was grackles and black birds which visited my garden in large flocks of around a 100 about four rimes a day. I watched one bird eat about 15 in about one minute through binoculars from inside the house. Edited by Durgan, Feb 17 2016, 12:27 PM.
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