re: Cicada apocalypse 2024 - biggest since 1803

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I enjoy summertime cicadas. It’s part of summer.

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I love the sound in my back yard. Reminds me of growing up in the country.

Cicada killers target annual cicadas which are the ones a lot of people are mistaking for the ones this thread is about. I have seen periodical cicadas exactly once, and may never see one again because of where I live.

Bass fishing gonna be cicada-centric this summer

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They say this shite every 17 years

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FIFY

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All I know is that the last house I owned had a population of Cicada Killers. During cicada season, they would be thick in the back yard carrying knocked out/dead cicadas back to their holes in the ground.

I never got used to them because at a certain time of year they were always buzzing you. They look like a HUGE Hornet. And though I've never been stung by one, they say if you ever provoke one enough to sting you, it will be something you'll remember.

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I saw this one last Summer. Its nest/tunnel is in my backyard, I think.

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Dogs love to eat cicadas

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Cicadas are the world’s best dog toy/treat. It’s an angry hunt and kill game when one of those loud things goes screaming right by a dog.

It’s more of a chase and play game when a cicada is sitting still, and a dog walks up and starts sniffing it, then suddenly the cicada takes off buzzing and screaming in the dog’s face.

Cicadas don’t go down easily either. I’ve seen many a buzzing cicada captured in a dog’s mouth, only to be immediately released to begin the chase again. All hell can break loose if one of those things gets inside your house.

You know what follows a Cicada Killer wasp?

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Think about the billions of cicadas that are buried under Walmart parking lots and will not be able to emerge, dying a slow and painful death.

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This may be one of the more thought provoking posts I have read on tOT.