Cicada invasion

**pixc** · 1st February 2007, 22:44

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** · 1st February 2007, 22:50

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

**pixc** · 1st February 2007, 22:53

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** · 1st February 2007, 23:12

Garden Hose. Spray the little smeggers.

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

**Karma** · 1st February 2007, 23:20

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** · 1st February 2007, 23:24

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** · 2nd February 2007, 07:45

Originally Posted by 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.

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

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

**Finn** · 2nd February 2007, 07:52

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** · 2nd February 2007, 08:03

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** · 2nd February 2007, 08:04

Originally Posted by 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.

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** · 2nd February 2007, 08:17

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** · 2nd February 2007, 08:25

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

**pixc** · 2nd February 2007, 08:55

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** · 2nd February 2007, 09:00

In that case I'd say get more cats

**oldrider** · 2nd February 2007, 09:05

Originally Posted by 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??

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

Cheers John.