Hardcore Biker
I don't find cicadas annoying as yet. Hell any that manage to get into the house are quickly gobbled down by my little kitten.
Whats worse.... Crickets.... Try having one sneak inside somehow.. The fun is finding the stupid thing.. oh and them bugs that make that clicking sound. Drives me absolutely bonkers!
only cause they sound like they'd taste yummyOriginally Posted by danb
Forum whore
I love the sound of cicadas. And crickets.
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Crickets are bloody annoying. All that "HOWZAAATTT??!!????" yelling and the butt slapping - it aint right I tells ya!
They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the evening,
we will remember them
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cicadas drive me crazy i hate them .....especially when they fly in your helmet and start chirping on your face (this may have happened recently ... thus why i now keep my visor closed at all times lol (and bumble bees arg )
Waa?
Our local boy racer now only plays in the day time as his windows some how broke one night, must have been the G forces from the donut...They're only alive for about 2 months or so. No big deal. It's the f*cking boy racers that f*ck around @ 2am that make me want to get my shotgun out!
Cicadas are ok, better than howler monkeys...
We all have our little obsessions...
Deus ex ukulele
Cicadas? Strike One!
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
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I remember when I came to New Zealand, I had never seen/heard one before.... I did not know what the hell they were and why they were making such a noise during the day.
Hehe, now I love the sound of cicadas.
Mobile Oil Stain
That had everything to do with it.Yea well they look like it!
Rain? - Was a clear sky and the moon was out - perhaps that had something to do with it.
They hatch at night,the moon triggers it an the first thing they do is start advertising for a mate.
Neat aye!!
Hardcore Biker
Ok then - When do they sleep then - Surely they can’t sing non stop for 2 days.
The typical computer tech - Smashing things fixes things for good
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http://collections2.eeb.uconn.edu/co.../NZ/index.html
Cicadas are cool. There's heaps of varieties, including MANY Asian ones.
This link describes the ones we have round the Western Hutt hills.
There's more than 40 species in NZ, and where I lived in Auckland as a child we had mostly small grey coloured ones. The zealandicae are HUGE by comparison.
I grew up with that unceasing cacophany, as the cycles of different species must overlap in Auckland. The zealandicae must have a 10 year cycle as we moved in to our house over the '95-'96 Summer and even though they are back with a vengeance, they were way more numerous then than they are this year.
We'll see what happens next year.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
It's OK...I've got a spare!
They sound a bit like a squeaky disc brake on Honda ST............
...she took the KT, and left me the Buell to ride....(Blues Brothers)
Forum whore
Blurdy hell. Y'mean there's lotsa different types of the little buggers. I never knew that, I thought they was just cicadas, full stop. Learn something new every day.
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Anyone ever seen one hatch? All I've seen is the cases they leave behind.
They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the evening,
we will remember them
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I've seen them on the stalk or whatever, beside the empty case - seem to be sort of drying them selves out, then they flutter their wings a bit, then take off. Never seen one actually emerging.
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