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Originally Posted by rachykells
Yuck. I hate cicadas. We have some time in Cincinnati before another "invasion" of the 17 year kind, but I always hear them in the trees. GROSS.
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They're just out looking for a girlfriend is all. Mother nature really dealt them a bad hand. The poor devils can never catch a break.
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Originally Posted by Silverlsinva
From what I read in the paper these are supposed to be the red-eyed cicadas and the estimates are 30 billion to 1 trillion of them maybe lurking underground. and another fun fact is that there are atleast 12 different broods so its not really 17 years its 17 years since that brood swarmed so could have one every 5 to 7 years possibly.
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Yeah out here we get them around every 10 years or so. If I head out to the sticks it gets real bad. I've seen so many on the road that the pavement will get almost as bad as ice and I've seen a few cars losing paint on the front running through a swarm on the expressway at speed.
Some of my biker friends have had to run for cover completely coated in bug guts.