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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 5:53 pm to clamdip
Katydid:
Cicada:
Cicada:
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 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 6:20 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 6:53 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 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
Posted on 4/20/24 at 6:59 pm to clamdip
This is what we called Katydids.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 7:03 pm to clamdip
quote:
Anybody else's grandma call cicadas "katydids"?
“Katydids sing like a symphony…”
Posted on 4/20/24 at 7:37 pm to clamdip
They are two different things. When I first moved to NW Arkansas the katydids were horribly noisy. They come out for three months each summer. I have never seen them before.
This post was edited on 4/20/24 at 7:40 pm
Posted on 4/20/24 at 8:45 pm to clamdip
*raises hand*
Posted on 4/21/24 at 5:05 pm to clamdip
Never had anyone in the family call 'em katydids, but Dad's side of the family from western Kentucky called 'em locusts and Mom's side of the family from south western West Virginia called 'em jar flies.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 5:52 pm to clamdip
I think the need to call them "locusts" is a side effect of being in the Bible Belt.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 6:29 pm to clamdip
Cicadas on the menu at a New Orleans Cafe. Belly up.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 6:36 pm to clamdip
No, but every idiot on the internet or living in south Louisiana calls them locusts.
Like the things that live in Africa and the Middle East.
Like the things that live in Africa and the Middle East.
Posted on 4/21/24 at 6:42 pm to clamdip
Hell, my country arse has called them katydids all of my 67 years and will continue to call them katydids, or kadydids.
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