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Title: Cicada plague 2013
Post by: Stephen Vella on September 27, 2013, 11:36:08 AM
They came up and started chirping away and then the screeching started. Its going to be deafening. From memory the last one was so loud I wore ear muffs when out in the garden.

Apparently there was a plague in the states, Im wondering it was the same else where??

They come up every 15 to 17 years after living 1m under ground sucking on a root. How do they know when to come up beats me. Now theres skelectons hanging around...
Title: Re: Cicada plague 2013
Post by: johnralphcarpenter on September 27, 2013, 12:05:56 PM
Wow! We only have to cope with slugs and snails (and vine weevil and fungal diseases and viruses..........)
Title: Re: Cicada plague 2013
Post by: David Nicholson on September 27, 2013, 05:48:35 PM
Wow! We only have to cope with slugs and snails (and vine weevil and fungal diseases and viruses..........)

I'd take those everytime, don't like the "creepies" or "flyers" very much at all.
Title: Re: Cicada plague 2013
Post by: Anthony Darby on September 28, 2013, 06:39:18 AM
We get clapping cicadas after Christmas every year. They are about 4 cm long and very noisy in large numbers. Fortunately we only get them in ones and twos in the garden.
Title: Re: Cicada plague 2013
Post by: arillady on September 28, 2013, 10:17:57 AM
Now I wonder if Maggi can find a suitable emoticon or whatever they are called to illustrate it Anthony ;D
Title: Re: Cicada plague 2013
Post by: Anthony Darby on September 28, 2013, 11:11:01 AM
You can hear one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9M6ALdr5HU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9M6ALdr5HU)
Title: Re: Cicada plague 2013
Post by: Mark Griffiths on September 28, 2013, 11:58:48 AM
that is great. I'm not even sure if we still have our New Forest Cicada
Title: Re: Cicada plague 2013
Post by: Maggi Young on September 28, 2013, 12:36:08 PM
Now I wonder if Maggi can find a suitable emoticon or whatever they are called to illustrate it Anthony ;D

Not exactly..........but


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Title: Re: Cicada plague 2013
Post by: Stephen Vella on September 28, 2013, 01:06:05 PM
lol ...so funny and so true.
Title: Re: Cicada plague 2013
Post by: arillady on September 28, 2013, 01:08:09 PM
Maggi does it again.  :)
Title: Re: Cicada plague 2013
Post by: johnralphcarpenter on September 28, 2013, 08:47:40 PM
Brilliant! We get occasional plagues: some summers the air can be thick with flying ants, and one year we had a plague of violet ground beetles (my wife insists on calling them violent ground beetles); they marched en masse on the house, scaled the walls and then all died in the loft.
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