Cicada invasion

[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!

[The Pastor]

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.

[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.

[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!

[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]

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.