Things That Suck
Cicadas landing just outside your window. While you are trying to work.
Fortunately I heard him doing his little warmup routine and was able to close my window before he kicked into truly high gear. Man those things are loud.
Cicadas landing just outside your window. While you are trying to work.
Fortunately I heard him doing his little warmup routine and was able to close my window before he kicked into truly high gear. Man those things are loud.
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August 18th, 2006 at 10:08
http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/michigan_cicadas/Periodical/Index.html
Figure out which kind of cicada he is!
Next year is Brood XIII. Get ready.
August 18th, 2006 at 11:52
Oh good Lord, is this the year they come back? The last time, they were thick on the ground, in the water, and the air. I don’t think I got how bad a plague of locusts was until that year..the cicadas were annoying enough, and they weren’t eating my food.
August 22nd, 2006 at 10:23
What sucks about cicadas.
They’re harmless things. Honestly, what some Chicagoans wworry about…
Anyway the cicada wasps woll take care of them.
August 22nd, 2006 at 20:11
That web page rocks. Those guys are way into Cicadas. Mine actually had red eyes, which I think makes it a periodical, though he is a long way from home then.
August 24th, 2006 at 09:37
Don - The thing that sucks about Cicadas is that when they land next to you when you are trying to concentrate and then they start doing that thing they do, they are very loud, and make it hard to concentrate. For me anyway, others find different things annoying about them.
August 25th, 2006 at 10:43
Do you have a cat? They find those things amusing. When I lived in Texas, we used to get those things every summer. Our cat got pretty good at hunting the things.
August 30th, 2006 at 13:54
Toasted, these things taste like popcorn. Or so I’m told. I read a National Geographic article several years ago that described street vendors in Nairobi (as I recall) selling paper cones of toasted locusts, a popular treat. I also read a newspaper interview with a Chinese woman who was collecting locusts for to prepare a family recipe. It’s genius, really. They eat our grain? Okay, then I eat the thing that ate my grain. Americans tend to think of all bugs as dirty, but it’s not true at all. Cockroaches are dirty, but most bugs aren’t. Termites, ants, bees, and locusts are all quite clean little things, and are eaten most places in the world. It’s just, for us, they’re unfamiliar. Then again, raw fish sounds like a weird thing to eat, at first glance, but I’m pretty glad I took the plunge there.
Anyone have a recipe for locusts? Apparently they’re eaten in Asia, South America, and Africa. Someone in RP must know how to cook them.
August 31st, 2006 at 14:05
Mmmm crunchy. I sent mine over to bug Don Mac Gregor, so you’ll have to get it from him.
(Was going to post this there, but I haven’t bothered to get a blogger account yet.)