Ready for the Plague???

[zazouse]

Bring um on

Doggy treats YUM YUM

 

[dkvart1]

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Nope me and DH love them. Nothing like taking a nap to them! Their rhythm puts you right out! Wish they were around more often!

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! They've been dive-bombing me the last few days. They seem to be attracted by the noise from the jig saw and the circular saw. Was startling the first few times.

Lisa

 

[Orchid]

Just another benefit to living on the semi-frozen tundra. No 13 year plague.

 

[fishin-nole]

I have ringing in the ears so I hear them 24/7/365.

 

[sfw2]

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Y'all have fun with that!

 

[dewey]

Ah, the Apache's song! Here in the Arizona desert we have a lot of different varieties, but mostly see the Apache. We have them every year here in late June and they usher in the monsoon, which usually follows them by about 2 weeks or so. We always also just called them locusts or June bugs. They arise at the hottest point of summer, just when we think there's no end in sight for the heat...so, until we hear their song we know we haven't even seen the worst of the heat yet. But at least when they start singing we know some relief from the heat will arrive shortly with monsoon. But then the humidity starts.

When we were kids and would come across any that weren't singing, we'd set them off by touching them. They don't like that.

 

[ChooksChick]

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You need to come hang out over here during the summer then! We have it every year and I love it. I think a summer without it would be weird!

The powwows all come through because we have Haskell Indian Nations University and I'm picturing the kids in your memory...only we haven't got swamps...just wetlands.

In NE Texas we get them every summer too. I remember, sitting outside, on the phone with a friend from Southern California. It was a beautiful evening and my friend kept saying "What? What? I can't hear you! What is all that noise in the background?!? It's really loud!!" and it occurred to me- oh, it's the cicadas- he's never heard them but I hear them so often in the summer the noise just kind of blends into the background and I don't notice it anymore.
It's just not a good time of year to go out for a motorcycle ride with out a helmet and a big smile on your face....

My dad was out with a friend when he was young, going REALLY fast, and the pal just lay over suddenly. Dad couldn't figure why he put the bike down and came back, found the guy screaming and covering his face. Long story, many medical personnel later, turns out he hit one doing 70 and it went straight up his nose into his sinuses...nice.....

 

[pips&peeps]

See folks, this is why I don't live in the South. No giant flying bugs, no cockroaches, no poisonous snakes. Just a bunch of cold white stuff that will eventually melt and go away.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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