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Mount Prospect,illinois

This summer is the year we get the 17 year cicada invasion. Other than their incredible numbers and the cool twirling noise they make, i dont remember any problems they created. Would there be anything we would have to look out for when growing pumpkins?

2/9/2007 8:03:30 AM

West By God Virginia

We had the 17 year cicada invasion 2 or years ago here.

2/9/2007 8:13:34 AM

Waquoit Mass

great more illegal aliens lol

2/9/2007 10:23:02 AM

Dillsburg, PA

I need to get my whiffle bat out.

2/9/2007 10:27:23 AM

southwest MO

We seem to always have a good amount of cicada's at my place. Ive never seen them do any harm to my garden or patch. I think they are just trying to find a partner, breed and die. Swing away!!

2/9/2007 10:40:19 AM

Mount Prospect,illinois

I figured these guys would have about the same behavior as the annual Cicadas. Just ALLOT more of them. 17 years ago was entertaining. My boys will have a blast this summer.
Doug, The Chicago area has them 2 years after you guys do for some reason. Anyone with a bug phobia will have a rough time this summer. I do remember a few people i knew who panicked when they came out all at once.

2/9/2007 10:50:51 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Chickens thats what you need and lots of them..

2/9/2007 11:10:43 AM

Central Pennsylvania [email protected]

I remember filling a big coffee can with them once they died and still finding bodies all over the place that wouldn't fit in the can. They were the coolest things! Now it's my boys turn, they're gonna have so much fun this year! I guess I better start saving more bug jars.

2/9/2007 12:16:18 PM

Boulder County Colorado USA planet Earth

don't forget about the shedding of skins. So cool.

2/9/2007 12:21:43 PM

Kansas City

A few years ago in Missouri we had...I think...both the 13 and 17 year cicadas at the same time. 1998 I think it was. The trees were drooping because of them! That only happens every 221 years that way if I did the math right. A very cool event! Not sure if they lay eggs in pumpkin vines, but they really pruned out the oaks with their egg laying.

2/9/2007 12:34:56 PM

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The Metro NY area got hit a few years ago too. I was drooling over the prospect of selling insecticides all willy-nilly. What a bust! Pestilence just isn't the Biblical event I thought it would be.

2/9/2007 2:40:50 PM

Pumpkintown, SC

...about 8 years ago here, BF

2/9/2007 2:56:07 PM

Grants Pass, Oregon

Hey Lauralie will you save some of them for me, my kids would love to see them. Cary

2/9/2007 3:52:50 PM

Rhode Island

They never come into new england. Must be afraid of the big pumpkins lol

2/9/2007 4:03:20 PM

Long Island,New York

cicadas are the perfect cat toy...hard, durable, dont kill easy, make noise and flap wings vigorously....try them !

2/9/2007 4:38:05 PM

Central Pennsylvania [email protected]

Cary, sure I'll fill a box for them! I think they hit here same year as Illinois. I wonder if the post office will deliver a noisy box? If not, I'll have to wait until they've made it to the other side first. I'll check into it. Email me your addy.

Oh yeah, your kids will love them! They have bulging red eyes, creepy!

2/9/2007 5:19:54 PM

Central Pennsylvania [email protected]

Nevermind, I just did a little more researhing in my area and I don't get them until next year. Bummer!

2/9/2007 5:26:53 PM

Jackson Twp, Ohio

you guys had me paranoid i had to do research too. thank goodness for OSU bug people. LOL. 2016 is our year.

http://bugs.osu.edu/~bugdoc/PerioCicada/PeriCicadaMap.htm

2/9/2007 5:54:10 PM

Central Pennsylvania [email protected]

Kinda wierd, we have a few different broods of 17 year cicada's. One was in 2004 and we're due for another brood in 2008. Kinda cool that we have 17 year cicada's only 4 years apart.

http://www.ento.psu.edu/extension/factsheets/periodical_cicada.htm

2/9/2007 6:28:54 PM

Mount Prospect,illinois

Lauralie,
Looks like we are in the same boat. My 3 boys will go nuts over these guys. They think the seasonal ones are cool. Southern Illinois got a 13 year version a few years ago and everyone was telling me it was a locust invasion. Hmmmmmm. Either way, this will not be a quiet summer for us.
Pap: From reading your posts, i think you would get a kick out of these guys.

2/9/2007 7:40:24 PM

Colo.Spgs.CO. Pikes Peak Chapter @ [email protected]

They sound, the cicades like great fish bait, might be a good year for fishing and a bumper year for growing

2/10/2007 4:53:29 AM

[email protected]

After looking at the table at the bottom of the PSU list you set for us Laurilee, my county doesnt get cicadias! Must be they dont like our manure here in Bradford county!

2/10/2007 9:49:39 AM

Grants Pass, Oregon

Lauralie my email addy is [email protected]

2/10/2007 12:52:29 PM

if you want i will post some recipes they posted in local paper on how to cook these guys a few years back.

2/10/2007 1:17:19 PM

Central Pennsylvania [email protected]

eeeeeeewwwwwww!

2/10/2007 2:29:10 PM

Central Pennsylvania [email protected]

That's too bad Rocky, They're cool looking little monsters!

2/10/2007 2:30:44 PM

Indiana

It just sucks to ride a motorcycle during the
cicada "invasion" They really stick in your teeth.
Steve

2/10/2007 11:16:53 PM

Indiana

The wild turkey season after a cicada year is usually outstanding! Lots of extra food for the young turkeys.
Steve

2/10/2007 11:18:36 PM

Montoursville, PA

I have eaten them roasted, toasted and chocolate covered. As of this point in my life I would say the eating of the same would be either for survival food or roughly akin to sucking raw oysters. Done once, twice, and thrise was enough for me. The chocolate was good. :)

2/12/2007 10:13:08 AM

Eastern Pennsylvania

If you have a shellfish allergy you will also be allergic to Cicedas

2/12/2007 12:56:51 PM

western PA

I remember there being a lot of the shedded exoskeletons underneath certian trees when i was younger. maybe these little suckers would be a good soil additive...

2/12/2007 1:46:59 PM