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Anybody else's grandma call cicadas "katydids"?
Posted on 4/20/24 at 5:44 pm
Posted on 4/20/24 at 5:44 pm
I know there's a big green grasshopper thing that most people call katydids, but my grandma never referred to cidadas as cicadas. Just katydids. She was a poor from Sicily Island, though.
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Posted on 4/20/24 at 5:45 pm to clamdip
Locusts
Posted on 4/20/24 at 5:55 pm to High C
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Locusts
Grasshopper:
He's only a locust if/when he falls in with the wrong crowd and starts wrecking shite.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 5:56 pm to clamdip
Locusts
Posted on 4/20/24 at 5:56 pm to clamdip
Yup. Mine.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 5:57 pm to Handsome Pete
Grasshopper is a grasshopper.
Cicada is fancy name for locust.
Cicada is fancy name for locust.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 6:00 pm to Handsome Pete
quote:
Cicada is fancy name for locust.
Cicada is a cicada. Locust is the name for grasshoppers when they form large groups and wipe out crops. Locusts are grasshoppers, but not all grasshoppers are locusts.
This post was edited on 4/20/24 at 6:01 pm
Posted on 4/20/24 at 6:03 pm to High C
quote:
Locusts
Yep, this is how they were referenced when I was growing up and I don't really know anyone who calls them cicadas or katydids.
This post was edited on 4/21/24 at 8:23 pm
Posted on 4/20/24 at 6:17 pm to clamdip
one of the morons on The View, Sunny Hostin, called cicadas, ci-kah-das and the others had to tell her it's ci-KAY-das. Maybe she was thinking about enchilADAs or something.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 6:18 pm to LegendInMyMind
People are fricking strange, I know that’s rhetorical, but we’ve evidently nurtured a cottage industry in Mo. this summer of bookings for people coming to witness the cicada bloom.
“That’ll be $195.00 a night, but here’s your memorialized “cicada towel” to dig the ear-splitting horde out of your car grill and off your tires.
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The loud droning noise of insanity. We’re expecting 500 million to a billion alone this summer in Mo.
Bait will be at an all-time low this summer.
“That’ll be $195.00 a night, but here’s your memorialized “cicada towel” to dig the ear-splitting horde out of your car grill and off your tires.
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The loud droning noise of insanity. We’re expecting 500 million to a billion alone this summer in Mo.
Bait will be at an all-time low this summer.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 6:20 pm to clamdip
I never heard cicada until I was an adult. it was always katydids for me
Posted on 4/20/24 at 6:23 pm to clamdip
Um yes…
Is that not what they are?
Is that not what they are?
Posted on 4/20/24 at 6:24 pm to LegendInMyMind
quote:
He's only a locust if/when he falls in with the wrong crowd and starts wrecking shite.
Got a kid like that.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 6:50 pm to Handsome Pete
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Cicada is fancy name for locust.
Wrong.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 6:53 pm to LegendInMyMind
quote:
Cicada is a cicada. Locust is the name for grasshoppers when they form large groups and wipe out crops. Locusts are grasshoppers, but not all grasshoppers are locusts.
You ain't from Louisiana then. Keep your "science" out of here.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 6:53 pm to clamdip
We called cicadas locust and cranefly mosquito hawks. Being part indian and those 2 things were biggest lies from my youth.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 6:55 pm to skeeter531
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one of the morons on The View, Sunny Hostin, called cicadas, ci-kah-das and the others had to tell her it's ci-KAY-das. Maybe she was thinking about enchilADAs or something.
She also tried to say that the super hatch, or whatever they're calling it, is caused by climate change. That ignorant twat shouldn't even be taking orders at Burger King much less talking to people on national television.
This post was edited on 4/20/24 at 6:58 pm
Posted on 4/20/24 at 6:55 pm to clamdip
Katydids/locust/cicadas are all different.
It’s like eating roast and calling it steak. Sure it’s beef but it’s not a steak
It’s like eating roast and calling it steak. Sure it’s beef but it’s not a steak
Posted on 4/20/24 at 6:58 pm to clamdip
Yep, I call them katydids
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