Cicadas

[Maulds]

Anyone else being over-run by these loud annoying insects?

 

[Darrell]

No.

 

[AnitaBeer]

Not yet, but I'm sure they will be annoying us soon enough.

 

[Aries]

OHHHHH NOOOOO! Not yet, but I hate those things!:yuk

 

[Maulds]

I bet there are easily 5,000 of them in my Bradford pear trees right now. They are so loud I could hear them over my lawnmower earlier.

 

[anathelia]

I bet there are easily 5,000 of them in my Bradford pear trees right now. They are so loud I could hear them over my lawnmower earlier.

Ugh, those motherfuckers live in the mesquite trees that EVERYONE uses in their landscaping around here.

They're SO annoying, and so loud. I always know it's summer time when those bastards are out. :willy_nilly:

 

[AUDRAA]

I dont think we have such a yucky bug up this way, gotta say Im kinda glad about it to

 

[Boomerang]

There are tons of them around. I am just glad school is out so I don't have to hear the girls screaming whenever they walk outside to the portable.

 

[TheFireMan]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are really bad at our hunting club this year. Ive never heard them so loud as what they are now. Its unreal.

 

[Aries]

Another bug that I heard is going to be bad this year is the Stink Bug!:yuk

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/21/us/21stinkbugs.html?_r=1

Mid-Atlantic Dreads Bad Summer of Foul, Hungry Stink Bugs
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS
Published: May 20, 2011

The voice on the answering machine at SBS Pest Control in Pittsburgh offers an unusual valediction.
“We hope your day,” it says, “is stink bug free.”

Ask people around Pittsburgh and much of the rest of the Mid-Atlantic region and they are likely to say there have been far too few stink-bug-free days of late, a harbinger of what promises to be another challenging summer, a year after tens of millions of the inchlong pests wreaked havoc on crops and homes.

As the temperatures rise and stink bugs emerge from their winter quarters, entomologists say, the infestation could prove even worse this year, with the bugs making their way into new areas of the country.

The brown marmorated stink bug is believed to have arrived here from Asia in the 1990s. It has made its way from Pennsylvania to at least 33 states, and has been spotted as far west as California and Washington. A continuing advance is inexorable, scientists say, because the bugs have no natural predators and can travel long distances — not by flying, but via a more convenient method: covertly hitching rides in vehicles.

The insect has caused tens of millions of dollars in damage, munching apples, peppers, corn and soybeans, and has proved to be a general irritant — in no small part because of its foul odor, which the bug secretes as a defense mechanism.

“The feeling in the bug world is this is the worst bug we’ve seen in 40 years,” said Michael J. Raupp, an entomologist at the University of Maryland. “It eats peaches and grapes and soybeans. It’s annihilated organic growers who can’t use pesticides. And guess what? After it eats your crops, it comes inside your home. I’ve never seen another bug do that.”

Steve Jacobs, an urban entomologist at Penn State University, said female stink bugs can lay as many as 270 eggs during a lifetime, which is less than a year. Last summer was particularly thick with stink bugs in sections of the Mid-Atlantic, he said, because two generations were alive concurrently.

“They do a tremendous amount of damage,” he said.

James McCoy, owner of SBS Pest Control, short for Stinkbugspecialist.com, said Pittsburgh was so rife with the insect that he did not bother with calls seeking help for termites, ants or roaches — the bread-and-butter triple play of pests that extermination companies typically go after.

“Everybody has stink bugs,” Mr. McCoy said. “We get one call out of 100 for the other stuff. No one here cares about the other stuff. It’s the stink bugs, and its getting worse every year here.”

 

[Jesslynne]

Not at all, haven't seen them here at all..
Though not knowing what it's like to hear them constantly, I like the sound they make really.

 

[brieze]

They're here. I actually like them.

 

[Peter Parka]

Glad we haven't got them over here, they did my fucking head in when I was in Australia though! :willy_nilly::willy_nilly::willy_nilly::willy_nilly::willy_nilly:

 

[Tuffdisc]

We don't have them here, would be great though

 

[skyblue]

Anyone else being over-run by these loud annoying insects?

i wish!!!!

Another bug that I heard is going to be bad this year is the Stink Bug!:yuk

shield bugs here:nod:

 

[HK]

I thought a cicada was a type of tree :ninja

 

[Boomerang]

I think I have hit about 5 with my windshield this week. Those big stupid bugs leave quite a mess.

Lately they seem to like hitching a ride on people's backs and shoulders. One was on my coworker yesterday and she is terrified of bugs. I tried snatching it off her before she noticed and the blasted thing screamed as loud as could be. Of course that sent my coworker running while a string of profanities came from her mouth.

 

[satinbutterfly]

We have the 17 year cicada here in Cincinnati and they swarm the place. Happened in 2008 (I think?) so it will be awhile before they come back... bastards. :yuk

 

[Aries]

We have the 17 year cicada here in Cincinnati and they swarm the place. Happened in 2008 (I think?) so it will be awhile before they come back... bastards. :yuk

Yup, we had them then too. Here's some info. on the 13 and 17 year cicada and when you can expect them again. I hate these things!:yuk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magicicada