Focking cicadas!

[pimptastic69 0]

Gawd these things are nasty. Can't even walk out in the damn yard without being molestored by these vile creatures.

 

Their dead carcasses are piled up 3 or 4 inches deep at the base of my trees. Smells like focking dead fish everywhere. Best of all, apparently they're attracted to noises like lawn mowers and chain saws- which is just awesome since I need to cut up a bunch of fallen tree limbs (covered in cicadas) and mow the lawn.

[SUXBNME 1,499]

Gawd these things are nasty. Can't even walk out in the damn yard without being molestored by these vile creatures.

 

Their dead carcasses are piled up 3 or 4 inches deep at the base of my trees. Smells like focking dead fish everywhere. Best of all, apparently they're attracted to noises like lawn mowers and chain saws- which is just awesome since I need to cut up a bunch of fallen tree limbs (covered in cicadas) and mow the lawn.

 

Tell your mom / sister / wife / etc..to close her legs

[naomi 356]

This was the background sound almost every night when I lived in South Carolina.

[Me_2006 14]

Are they the things that leave the brown shells attached to trees and junk? Like they shed their skin or something and it keeps the shape of their body except with a little hole in it? If so we had some here when I was like 4.

[Me_2006 14]

Are they the things that leave the brown shells attached to trees and junk? Like they shed their skin or something and it keeps the shape of their body except with a little hole in it? If so we had some here when I was like 4.

Nevermind. I think those are some kind of beatle or something.

[IGotWorms 4,058]

That sounds like mexican crabs to me.

[Chronic Husker 85]

From what I hear, Rustor loves cicadas.

[SUXBNME 1,499]

Nevermind. I think those are some kind of beatle or something.

 

John? Paul? Ringo? The other one? The 5th one?

 

Oh...You meant beetle.

Good luck with your life in the outside world

[pimptastic69 0]

Are they the things that leave the brown shells attached to trees and junk? Like they shed their skin or something and it keeps the shape of their body except with a little hole in it? If so we had some here when I was like 4.

 

Those are the bastards in question. Only there is a hundred billion trillion of them floating around. You have to turn on your freakin windshield wipers while driving just to keep the fockers off your car.

[Me_2006 14]

John? Paul? Ringo? The other one? The 5th one?

 

Oh...You meant beetle.

Good luck with your life in the outside world

mange.

pron.

bored.

your.

 

 

 

should i go on?

[SUXBNME 1,499]

mange.

pron.

bored.

your.

 

 

 

should i go on?

 

I did not use "your" incorrectly, so fock off.

Also, please link to when "beetle" became "beatle" in geek speak. TIA

 

[MisanthropicAnthropoid 0]

This was the background sound almost every night when I lived in South Carolina.

 

It hasn't really been too bad for my three years there. Where in SC were you, out of curiosity?

[naomi 356]

It hasn't really been too bad for my three years there. Where in SC were you, out of curiosity?

Upstate out in the country around Spartanburg in an area called Pauline/Glennsprings. 6 months in 03. Where are you?

[MisanthropicAnthropoid 0]

Upstate out in the country around Spartanburg in an area called Pauline/Glennsprings. 6 months in 03. Where are you?

 

Due West for college, ever heard of it? (It's about halfway between Greenwood and Anderson).

[naomi 356]

Due West for college, ever heard of it? (It's about halfway between Greenwood and Anderson).

Never heard of it. The closest colleges I knew about were Wofford, USCS and BJU. Anderson is familiar. Greenwood isn't though. How do you like it out there?

[MisanthropicAnthropoid 0]

Never heard of it. The closest colleges I knew about were Wofford, USCS and BJU. Anderson is familiar. Greenwood isn't though. How do you like it out there?

 

We do draw quite a few students from Spartanburg (but mostly from Greenville), but I'm not surprised you've never heard of it. There are people in Greenwood (20 miles away) who haven't heard of it.

 

I love the college. It's small, academically strong, serious about being Christian, and not legalistic. As far as the area, it's not bad, but I don't think I could live there. I miss the mountains.

[naomi 356]

We do draw quite a few students from Spartanburg (but mostly from Greenville), but I'm not surprised you've never heard of it. There are people in Greenwood (20 miles away) who haven't heard of it.

 

I love the college. It's small, academically strong, serious about being Christian, and not legalistic. As far as the area, it's not bad, but I don't think I could live there. I miss the mountains.

Sounds like a nice school. My parents moved out there (we have family that moved out about a decade ago) and then moved back. Didn't fit in, but then again it was the kind of place where our neighbors were actually KKK members. Not everyone was like that but aside from our family, no one could be related to. Even though we're white and of western European descent, it's weird to go from a place where there's a lot of diversity to the opposite.

[cmh6476 1,024]

Just ventured south probably 70 miles and these things are all over the place

[BunnysBastatrds 2,435]

 If you’re talking about locust molting on the side of your hous, they are not ciadas.The big ones that are black and yellow that look like grass hoppers are. And they do stink. Once a year they show up and they are stoopid. 
 

 I was in my backyard yesterday and sawr something I’ve never seen before. Kind freaked me out. A cottonwood borer.

 

 But twice the size of this little guy. I was getting rid of a neighbors poison Ivy vine growing into my yard (I’m not allergic to oak or ivy) and see this. So I picked him up with the pooper scooper and tossed him into the neighbors yard. Live long and prosper 

[Maximum Overkill 1,985]

I'm dealing with these stupid Japanese Beetles right now. These things are relentless. 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,435]

10 hours ago, Maximum Overkill said:

I'm dealing with these stupid Japanese Beetles right now. These things are relentless. 

 Did you know that 1/4 of all insect species around the world are beetles?

[Engorgeous George 2,331]

18 minutes ago, BunnysBastatrds said:

 Did you know that 1/4 of all insect species around the world are beetles?

 

"God has an inordinate fondness for beetles". - J.B.S. Haldane

[cmh6476 1,024]

15 hours ago, BunnysBastatrds said:

 If you’re talking about locust molting on the side of your hous, they are not ciadas.The big ones that are black and yellow that look like grass hoppers are. And they do stink. Once a year they show up and they are stoopid. 
 

 I was in my backyard yesterday and sawr something I’ve never seen before. Kind freaked me out. A cottonwood borer.

 

 But twice the size of this little guy. I was getting rid of a neighbors poison Ivy vine growing into my yard (I’m not allergic to oak or ivy) and see this. So I picked him up with the pooper scooper and tossed him into the neighbors yard. Live long and prosper 

No I'm not apparently there are two species of cicadas coming out this year and the last time these two species did at the same time was like 200 years ago

[cmh6476 1,024]

Like it or not, the

 cicada invasion is in full force.

Trillions of periodical cicadas part of Brood XIX and Brood XIII are emerging this year in multiple states, part of a rare, double-brood event. These 13- or 17-year cicadas have been waiting for the right soil conditions to come above ground, where they will eat, mate and die, with the newly-hatched nymphs burrowing underground to start the whole cycle over again.