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Whats up with all the bugs this year and those sounds they make, its enough to drive someone crazy lol
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I'm not sure which bugs you're talking about, but I live in a rural area and this year for the first time we are getting "stink bugs" in the house. The Agri. Extension person I talked to says they tend to get into older houses (which ours is) which have open spaces in the basement or around doors. Anyone else have this problem and any suggestions?
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The ones im talking about are loud i think maybe locus's lol and some other kinds of bugs that are wierd looking that i dont recall seeing before.
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You may be talking about cicadas. Do you live in the Southern part of the US? Here is part of an article from the online version of USA Today:
World's largest cicada brood begins hatching in the South
An enormous brood of cicadas that covers parts of 16 states is beginning to wake from its 13-year slumber underground.
The inch-long insects, which are sometimes mistakenly called 17-year locusts, have been reported hatching in South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and Arkansas. They will appear farther north as soil temperatures reach 64 degrees.
"There are billions of them in the trees," Greta Beekhuis says, speaking by phone from her porch in Pittsboro, N.C. The sound of the cicadas is clearly audible over the line. "When I drove from my house to the grocery store, I ran over thousands of them. They're everywhere. The air is just thick with them."
The cicadas don't bite or sting and only suck liquid from tree branches, but their sheer numbers, and the din they make when the males start singing as they search for mates, can be annoying.
Enjoy them, says Gene Kritsky, editor of the journal AmericanEntomologist. "It's like watching a nature video in your backyard."
For those who find walking through bugs to be the ultimate gross out, there's good news: The cicadas will die in a month, and the next generation won't emerge until 2024. Scientists call these cicadas the Great Southern Brood or Brood XIX. It is the world's largest "periodical" brood, one that surfaces after years.
Cicadas aren't dangerous, and are non-toxic and even edible, says Kritsky, a biology professor at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati. "The Iroquois ate them all the time."
Even so, the bugs are annoying: They get in people's hair, their cars, their picnics and their houses.
Periodical cicadas have one of the more amazing life cycles. They exist in only one place in the world: the eastern United States. Females lay eggs in tree twigs, which hatch in six to eight weeks.
The "nymphs," as the newly hatched cicadas are called, are 1/10th of an inch long and drift down to the ground, where they quickly crawl 10 inches under the soil. They attach to tree and bush roots, sucking out nutrients as they grow.
At the end of 13 years, for 13-year varieties, or 17 years for 17-year cicadas, they come up out of the earth over the course of a few weeks, as many as a million per acre, Kritsky says. They shed their skin and turn from white to black. The males begin to sing and they mate with the females, who then lay their eggs in twigs, beginning the cycle again.
In all there are 15 broods, as the offspring groups are known: 12 of the 17-year variety and three of the 13-year kind. So most years, there is a brood hatching somewhere. Greg Hoover, an entomologist at Pennsylvania State University, says there was none in 2009 or 2010, which means the arrival of this year's Brood XIX "could kind of come as a surprise to people."
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I haven't heard any yet, the ground must not be warm enough.
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No problem around here..... maybe later!
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You may be talking about cicadas. Do you live in the Southern part of the US? Here is part of an article from the online version of USA Today:
World's largest cicada brood begins hatching in the South
An enormous brood of cicadas that covers parts of 16 states is beginning to wake from its 13-year slumber underground.
The inch-long insects, which are sometimes mistakenly called 17-year locusts, have been reported hatching in South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and Arkansas. They will appear farther north as soil temperatures reach 64 degrees.
"There are billions of them in the trees," Greta Beekhuis says, speaking by phone from her porch in Pittsboro, N.C. The sound of the cicadas is clearly audible over the line. "When I drove from my house to the grocery store, I ran over thousands of them. They're everywhere. The air is just thick with them."
The cicadas don't bite or sting and only suck liquid from tree branches, but their sheer numbers, and the din they make when the males start singing as they search for mates, can be annoying.
Enjoy them, says Gene Kritsky, editor of the journal AmericanEntomologist. "It's like watching a nature video in your backyard."
For those who find walking through bugs to be the ultimate gross out, there's good news: The cicadas will die in a month, and the next generation won't emerge until 2024. Scientists call these cicadas the Great Southern Brood or Brood XIX. It is the world's largest "periodical" brood, one that surfaces after years.
Cicadas aren't dangerous, and are non-toxic and even edible, says Kritsky, a biology professor at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati. "The Iroquois ate them all the time."
Even so, the bugs are annoying: They get in people's hair, their cars, their picnics and their houses.
Periodical cicadas have one of the more amazing life cycles. They exist in only one place in the world: the eastern United States. Females lay eggs in tree twigs, which hatch in six to eight weeks.
The "nymphs," as the newly hatched cicadas are called, are 1/10th of an inch long and drift down to the ground, where they quickly crawl 10 inches under the soil. They attach to tree and bush roots, sucking out nutrients as they grow.
At the end of 13 years, for 13-year varieties, or 17 years for 17-year cicadas, they come up out of the earth over the course of a few weeks, as many as a million per acre, Kritsky says. They shed their skin and turn from white to black. The males begin to sing and they mate with the females, who then lay their eggs in twigs, beginning the cycle again.
In all there are 15 broods, as the offspring groups are known: 12 of the 17-year variety and three of the 13-year kind. So most years, there is a brood hatching somewhere. Greg Hoover, an entomologist at Pennsylvania State University, says there was none in 2009 or 2010, which means the arrival of this year's Brood XIX "could kind of come as a surprise to people."
That is alot of typing
Bugs i agree to many, more this year rather then last year
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I've noticed a LOT more ants outside this year compared to past years.
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You have to be talking about the cicadas. I'm in West KY. and they are terrible. I took this picture outside my apartment tonight.
(http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii65/home_teachin/cicadas3.jpg)
(http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii65/home_teachin/cicadas2.jpg)
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Cicadas can be ridiculously annoying. I haven't had any issues with them yet this year though. I also really dislike June bugs. Darn things drive me bonkers. I'd rather hear cicadas all day than have to deal with camel crickets inside my house!
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I can't believe all of the ticks out so far this year! I have already found several on my kids! I found one last night crawling on my daughters arm at the playground at church! But then again its already in the high 90's here in N.C.
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I'd rather hear the sounds of nature than the sounds of car alarms going off, drunken people arguing, sirens, etc.
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You have to be talking about the cicadas. I'm in West KY. and they are terrible. I took this picture outside my apartment tonight.
(http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii65/home_teachin/cicadas3.jpg)
(http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii65/home_teachin/cicadas2.jpg)
Oh MY!!!! We have cicadas every year, but NOTHING like what your pictures show. We usually have to LOOK for them and rarely see them. We normally just find the empty body shell on the trees after they hatch.
I hope they don't hatch in enormous numbers here in Minnesota.
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You have to be talking about the cicadas. I'm in West KY. and they are terrible. I took this picture outside my apartment tonight.
(http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii65/home_teachin/cicadas3.jpg)
(http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii65/home_teachin/cicadas2.jpg)
Oh MY!!!! We have cicadas every year, but NOTHING like what your pictures show. We usually have to LOOK for them and rarely see them. We normally just find the empty body shell on the trees after they hatch.
I hope they don't hatch in enormous numbers here in Minnesota.
That's quite a few buggies. I lived in TN for 25 years, and hardly ever saw cicadas (even during the last hatching). I'll be visiting family down there starting tomorrow though, so I can see if there are a bunch near Clarksville TN... ;D
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i live in nyc, so i dont have any bug problems of course i do have a mosquito problem, and i hate mosquitos
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I live in Tennessee and we have these bugs here. We went fishing Monday and used them as bait. Can't say they worked that well, but the fish were not biting even with worms or livers. I have bugs in my yard and on car and they fly into your car while you are driving down the road. I hope they leave soon because I have a young tree in yard and I don't want them to kill it
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They are called Cassadaas. They are a pain. There ws one time i did a flip and I landed on one and i could feel it buzzing on my back. When they make that noise that means they are dying. It's kinda sad really....like a cry for help.... :confused1:
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We have ants down here in Florida. I use "Germ A Clenz" to kill them. It kills all kinds of bugs: lizards, roaches....The ants aren't bothering me too much. I have seen a few in the kitchen. I got a new bathroom sink commode and new wood blocks them holes and openings they made the last few years.
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My house apartment house has a big ant infestation. I spray 2 times a week, cheap landlord he brought the spray to us.
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They are called "cicadas" but you're on the right track.
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Not a lot of typing, DEXTERJRH. I just copied and pasted from the article I mentioned.
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You have to be talking about the cicadas. I'm in West KY. and they are terrible. I took this picture outside my apartment tonight.
(http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii65/home_teachin/cicadas3.jpg)
(http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii65/home_teachin/cicadas2.jpg)
Wow...I've never seen so many cicadas! In fact I rarely see them, I just hear them...To answer the question...I haven't had any bug problem, yet (if ever).
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The cicadas are crazy where I live too!!! It sounds like a space ship is hovering in the woods. They are so annoying and huge!! I am seeing alot of them dying now though.
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I don't go outside.
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i cant stand bugs,they irritate me . And there r im allergic to., an swell.
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I'd rather hear the sounds of nature than the sounds of car alarms going off, drunken people arguing, sirens, etc.
heck yeah nature all the way!
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I Live in Virginia and worked in Maryland and around 2003 we were amased with cicadas and they are noisy as hell and dumb to boot. They sought of look like locus and actually come from that family. They only come out so many years but, when they do look out. They fill the skies and smash right into your car and amagine have houndreds or thousands of them smashed on your car. I have also heard that people I know in New Jersey are saying that the "stink bug" is bad this year also. They are suppose to be alot like the cicadas but, they stink awful. I don't know which one you maybe getting hit with but, they both are nasty insects.
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Yes, them crazy bugs are bad this year.
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I Live in Virginia and worked in Maryland and around 2003 we were amased with cicadas and they are noisy as hell and dumb to boot. They sought of look like locus and actually come from that family. They only come out so many years but, when they do look out. They fill the skies and smash right into your car and amagine have houndreds or thousands of them smashed on your car. I have also heard that people I know in New Jersey are saying that the "stink bug" is bad this year also. They are suppose to be alot like the cicadas but, they stink awful. I don't know which one you maybe getting hit with but, they both are nasty insects.
We had so many that people were doing around 35mph on the Capitol Beltway, there were so many that they had blackened the sky. It looked like something out of the birds movie. It was pretty scary too - you could not get out of your car, afraid to being attacked.
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NOT SURE? :dontknow: we have no problems here..well atleast not now
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Maybe we should do what they do in Thailand. Fry them up and serve them as food or treats. They make a grand side dish to a beer or two. OK, not really, but I did at least try. The June bugs taste kind of like a stale pork rind. And the crickets and grasshoppers? Not bad actually. Word has it they hold more vitamins than meat products. Maybe that's why the Thai people look so much thinner huh? Yum yum!
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i've been hearing them lately (cicadas, i mean) but have yet to see many of them!
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I live in the mountains of California and we are getting those flying ants/termite things. The are all over one side of my house and just a few on the deck. Only found one in the house. We don't have that many bugs around here. I always spray and it's surprising to find any kind of bug in my house.
I live near a lake and we do hear the frogs in the early evening and night. I once found a teeny baby frog on my deck mat last year, but that was rare. The one thing I don't like more than insects are snakes/lizards. We have a lot of rattlers around, and other kinds of snakes. Poisonous or not.....ewwww
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YIKES :confused1: I thought you were talking about a virus "bug" ..... I would much rather have the bugs with legs !!! I am sick again with some kind of bug.. :wave: