My four year old came in the other day with a cicada wing, telling us "Look mum....a indicator wing!"
Off the wagon
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WTF - LOLOriginally Posted by Goblin
The typical computer tech - Smashing things fixes things for good
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We don't seem to have many here in Huntly,although we have an over abundance of every other bug...but going past the power station yesterday the noise was deafening.Soil types maybe,they seem to be around pines too.
On Waiheke Island where we had a line of pines down the back at the farm boundry the cicada's were prolific.Our house was clad in cedar and in summer the walls facing the sun were totaly black with cicadas,powerpoles too.Cases everywhere and my kids used to fill jars with them.Cyclic too as Jim2 says,some years we had much more than others.
Next the cricket season starts - we have little ones flying around in the house at the moment,in a month or so they will be full grown and making nights hell.And then the mossi's start bitting in ernest.
It's OK...I've got a spare!
Jeez Goblin.
If that avatar is a picture of you I assume that you're still breast-feeding....the whole town!
...she took the KT, and left me the Buell to ride....(Blues Brothers)
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I was digging spuds out of the veggie garden on the weekend and found one underneath the soil surface still inside the casing. Alive and wriggling. Put it back under the surface so it could "do its thing". Guess I like cicadas eh?
Cricket. Yup, absolutely no need for it. 5 days to get a bloody DRAW ffs!
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Moped rider
Best way to get to sleep my friend is to have a quick one off the wrist
you will then be asleep in a minute
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Check out the Bug Zappers you can buy. a UV light surrounded by two (close but separate) rings of fine "chicken wire". 500VDC across the 2 meshes.
Electroblitz are good (the one at the bottom of that page is for indoor use - there is an outdoor one available too...).
Snap crackle and pop will keep you happy for days. They're good for all sorts of bugs, flys included. Weasel has mine at the mo and reports it's going well.
You leave it going each night, hang it in a tree or up high so they can see it for miles. Leave it there for a whole breeding cycle (plus a bit) and watch them dissappear into puffs of smoke.
It's not too fussy about what it kills though, so if you are a fan of moths or other bugs this might not be the solution for you.
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One, two free, floor!
Nu uh... that'd be someone else's wrist...
but yea - then off to sleep in a min!
MDU
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Either way you don't have to "cuddle and talk" to it afterwards!
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
Still Ridin'
Try a terrified frog!
Got jolted out of bed one night when I was a kid by an inhuman screaming that would make a banshee give up the game - loud, piercing and fucking horrifying. And it went on and on and on. Dad and mum got up too and we all went to investigate, found a terrified cat backing down our veranda with its eyes fixated on the shrieking frog it had caught.
Great defense mechanism!
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Hahaha!! At least the unholy laughing that I heard, when I was a kid, was from a possum. Mum gave me the vacuum cleaner pipe so I could feel safe. Woulda felt safer with the shotgun though!
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
Wearing Hi-Viz Black.
Is this a suzuki riders thing?
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One hell of a ride.
Never move to Sydney then - the cicadas here are about half the size, half as noisy and about half as many as my home town.
Still Ridin'
I heard that maniacal laughter one night when I was hitchihiking home - tired, literally asleep on my feet, passed a tree and was jolted out of my torpor by this fiendish cackle that sounded like the Joker on Nitrous Oxide.
I woke up on the way back down! I realised what it was instantly (well, the instant I woke up after bloody-near achieving orbital velocity) because I had been told that possums do a good maniacal laugh. The warning hadn't prepared me for the reality, though!
Motorbike Camping for the win!
.....your time is coming
Guess that is when they fly by and pop in eh?
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