Cicada invasion

[pixc]

Does anyone know of something...anything that will get rid of cicadas?

I cant stand it anymore. I cant talk on the phone outside because of the noise. The fuckers shit on you when you go near them. The cat is going to explode from eating too many of them. They are blocking my drains. Not to mention they give me the shits when they get stuck in my hair. It truely is like a biblical plague..only cicadas...and not locusts.

Incidently, did you know they kinda chirp when they fly into walls over and over again?

Apparently you can eat the fuckers before they shed their skin..anyone for cicada muffins??

[Ixion]

The cicada's chief predators are birds and hornets. You bought the wrong bike.

[pixc]

Birds..i havent got a shit show then..the neighbour uses a booming thing that fires of every hour or so to keep them away.

[Disco Dan]

Garden Hose. Spray the little smeggers.

Then spinkle heaps of rice accross your lawn... put your cats outside and watch ;)

[Karma]

Perhaps your problem can be solved via an indirect method?

The neighbour is scaring away the birds, so the circadas know your place is a safe nesting area... why not get the neighbour to stop scaring away the birds, who will return to a veritable feast and soon solve your problem for you.

[Dadpole]

Send 'em down here. Ours have not turned up in numbers yet.

I love the sound of Cicadas. They are the sound of summer - and send the trout crazy.
Heaven is a sunny day fishing with a cicada fly.

[SlashWylde]

Birds..i havent got a shit show then..the neighbour uses a booming thing that fires of every hour or so to keep them away.

So what we have here is a classic example of humans messing with the environment, upsetting the ecosystem, then complaining about the problems that result.

Stupit stupid humans :weep:

Tell your neighbor to pull their head in and turn off the bird repeller.

[Finn]

I've got one at my house near the city. He's got emphysema so he won't be around much longer.

What's really pissing me off is the bloody Tui's. There's about a dozen of them around my house. At first, it's kinda pleasant but after months of their bloody rooting songs it's time for the air rifle. I'll do my bit for nature and leave one.

[Flyingpony]

Ask Department of Conservation to come along and do a 1080 dump around your place.

Worked a treat at my parents place and 10+ years later the cicadas are still not back! Even the bird life has not properly returned!

Rats, oh my farken god. They've got a serious rat problem now. Didn't see a rat before the dump but now ... Heck, even a three legged cat can catch rats! As for Possums, their target, the property doesn't have any. Doc is allowed to come and do gin trapping and lay cyanide bait, to prove there are possums ... all they've managed to catch over the years are rats, more rats, and more farken rats. Not little ones, big farken rats too.

To make matters worse, Doc only did one dump and have been banned ever since by my folks. That is also partly because their planes kept clipping the top of their shelter belt and if things went wrong, boom the plane would've landed on the house. And, they also had a couple close mid-air collisions too.

[Skyryder]

I've got one at my house near the city. He's got emphysema so he won't be around much longer.

What's really pissing me off is the bloody Tui's. There's about a dozen of them around my house. At first, it's kinda pleasant but after months of their bloody rooting songs it's time for the air rifle. I'll do my bit for nature and leave one.

Yep I'm with you on this one. Their tin cans make great targets. Use them 'unopened' that way they don't fall over. Just like the taste of their beer; recycled.

Skyryder

[The Pastor]

Spend up large on a hole heap of flyspray and go nuts.


But dont cicadas spend 6 years underground before they come up?

[bert_is_evil]

Does your neighbor have some sort of horticultural business? Why are they using a bird scarer?

[pixc]

I live on a 30 hectare kiwifruit orchard...with other orchards all around. The orchard that uses the boomer is organic. You are right renegade_master, they have been in the ground 6-7 years before they come out. I think the problem has been created because of the change in industry practice. Before, if you saw a bug..you bombarded the whole orchard...1-2 times a month. Now days its all strictly monitored. They monitor the bugs and when they get to a certain level we bring in the sprayers. This has cut down the sprays significantly. Saying all of that..the sprays never did kill the cicadas anyway.

[bert_is_evil]

In that case I'd say get more cats

[oldrider]

Does anyone know of something...anything that will get rid of cicadas?

I cant stand it anymore. I cant talk on the phone outside because of the noise. The fuckers shit on you when you go near them. The cat is going to explode from eating too many of them. They are blocking my drains. Not to mention they give me the shits when they get stuck in my hair. It truely is like a biblical plague..only cicadas...and not locusts.

Incidently, did you know they kinda chirp when they fly into walls over and over again?

Apparently you can eat the fuckers before they shed their skin..anyone for cicada muffins??

Haven't you got any ear plugs for riding your bike? Just put in your ear plugs and wear your helmet! Problem solved. :shutup: Cheers John.

[ManDownUnder]

Does anyone know of something...anything that will get rid of cicadas?

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Apparently you can eat the fuckers before they shed their skin..anyone for cicada muffins??

Set yourself up a Chinese "Cook you own" bbq restaurant... smorgasboard!

$5/head +sauce, all you can eat! You'll either end up rich, pest free or both (but put the cats out of reach)

[vifferman]

what a cicadda is?

[Ixion]

Hey! Goatfood's back. Where y'been ?

[wybmadiity]

Move out of the orchard and into the city.... problem solved! :yes:

[The Pastor]

<img src='http://www.pestproducts.com/images/splash.jpg'>
Ever thought about getting a lot of these?

[Flyingpony]

what a cicadda is?
An insect which spends many years underground as a grub. Then it matures and emerges as a large flying insect (roughly locust sized). As a flying insect, it can make a lot of noise, like a chirping cricket, but much louder and there can be hundreds of them. They only mature in the Spring/Summer period and then die off rather quickly. Peak noise from cicadda's is dust and dawn.

[vifferman]

Hey! Goatfood's back. Where y'been ?
Metamorphosing into vifferman, evidently. <sigh>

[Ixion]

Bugger. Viffaman, thaz borink. Goatfood was much more innerestink . Can't ya metawozzaname back t'udda way?

[Smorg]

I like cicada's and you guys have it easy over here....its nothing compared to back home (OZ) Theres a variety over there called death-heads which get to about the size of half a mans wrist....i've only ever seen one though

[vifferman]

Bugger. Viffaman, thaz borink. Goatfood was much more innerestink . Can't ya metawozzaname back t'udda way?
Apparently not.
SpankHim doesn't like me having alternate realities.
Anyway, being Goatfood does my head in.:crazy:

[Laava]

Do what I did PIXC, use lots of powertools, listen to loud music and in no time you have tinitus! I have cicadas all year round!:yes:

[pixc]

Ok..apparently they like the lawn mower because i must of mowed a few hundred at least. They seemed to be attracked by the noise. There must tens of thousands of the buggers just on my yard in the trees. Is there a noise that they dont like? Maybe one that is inaudiable to human ears? I heard somewhere there is a simular devise that only children and teenages could hear. They put speakers up and play a sound that is very high pitched and it keeps the kids from 'hanging around' were they have become a nusiance.

[pixc]

<img src='http://www.pestproducts.com/images/splash.jpg'>
Ever thought about getting a lot of these?

Yip. Ive been checking these things out. The thing that ive noticed is that the gap is too smal for them to get into the zap zone.

[V4ME]

Do they bite?
I've seen em but never heard em, thats coz my high pitch hearing is shot - It's OK though I can still hear my aftermarket pipe, so I'm cool.

[pixc]

Do they bite?

Nope, not that I know of. But they crap on ya and they are big and stupid. They kids like to leave the back light on at night to attracked them. They come flying in by the hundreds and circle the light. When they have a fair amount there, they switch the light off and they slam into the straight into the side of the house. It sounds like someone throwing handfulls of gravel at the house.

[Timber020]

Useless info-by only appearing above ground in large numbers for a short period of time the cicadas are able to improve there chances of survival because of there large numbers and by only being about for a relatively short time, it doesnt give predators time to rely on them as a food source.

My dog loves them. I prefer pizza

[Korea]

You think that's noisy?
You should see the whacking-great big buggers they've got in Korea - deafening in summer!

[pixc]

Move out of the orchard and into the city.... problem solved! :yes:

oh hell no sunshine!!

I much prefer the cicadas to city life.

City = Traffic jams, up-tight bent and twisted city drivers, no privacy, neighbours too close,

Country = privacy, courtesy, heaps of storage space, no street lights (I love the pitch blackness outside) Free kiwifruit :P, I get to name, raise and eat my own cattle. (as long as i keep them out of the kiwifruit) bla bla bla

[Pixie]

Does anyone know of something...anything that will get rid of cicadas?

I cant stand it anymore. I cant talk on the phone outside because of the noise. The fuckers shit on you when you go near them. The cat is going to explode from eating too many of them. They are blocking my drains. Not to mention they give me the shits when they get stuck in my hair. It truely is like a biblical plague..only cicadas...and not locusts.

Incidently, did you know they kinda chirp when they fly into walls over and over again?

Apparently you can eat the fuckers before they shed their skin..anyone for cicada muffins??

Get more cats

[Pixie]

The cicada's chief predators are birds and hornets. You bought the wrong bike.

Get more birds and hornets

[Pixie]

I live on a 30 hectare kiwifruit orchard...with other orchards all around. The orchard that uses the boomer is organic. You are right renegade_master, they have been in the ground 6-7 years before they come out. I think the problem has been created because of the change in industry practice. Before, if you saw a bug..you bombarded the whole orchard...1-2 times a month. Now days its all strictly monitored. They monitor the bugs and when they get to a certain level we bring in the sprayers. This has cut down the sprays significantly. Saying all of that..the sprays never did kill the cicadas anyway.
The 6-7 years applies to Periodic Cicadas.The NZ species just has a 1 year life cycle as is evidenced by the fact that we don't go for 5-6 year periods with no cicadas

Do the Hippies use Biogas in their bird scarer?
I bet the hypocrites don't

[dawnrazor]

for fucks sake...first we have 'pixie'...now we have 'pixc'....what next 'picsee', 'picksea'....honestly people :yes:

[pixc]

for fucks sake...first we have 'pixie'...now we have 'pixc'....what next 'picsee', 'picksea'....honestly people :yes:

Im the more hip up-to-date model.

[Pixie]

Im the more hip up-to-date model.

Splitter!!:first:

[dawnrazor]

ah nothing like a revolution to keep you on your toes........

[Oakie]

Flame-thrower?

[pixc]

The 6-7 years applies to Periodic Cicadas.


As you said...it applies to Periodic Cicadas, and its 15 years inground for them..and they are only in the USA..so ive read.

From what I understand this particular type of cicada does have a 6-7 life span underground but they dont all come out at the same year. They still emerge every year after spending their time in the ground.

[Hitcher]

Does anyone know of something...anything that will get rid of cicadas?

Global warming should do the trick. Buy a second car and a herd of cows.