Cicadas are coming, cicadas are coming!!! Oh my.....

#81 Postby **Stephanie** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 9:21 am

I still haven't seen any in my backyard. I'm glad that they haven't been too troublesome for you Miss Mary.

breeze · #82 Postby **breeze** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 4:56 pm

Well, I'll be...... :lol:

Miss Mary, I'm glad your ankle is healing up.
Just go at your own pace, and, don't push it.
You'll be back to "Miss Mary", in no time!

Skywatch_NC · #83 Postby **Skywatch_NC** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 9:53 am

Saw today on Sunday Morning...feature reporter Bill Geist was in Cincinnati on a cicada tour and he met with entemologist professor Kritsky at Mt. St. Joseph College...another thing he did was try some garlic mashed potatoes complete with some cicadas mixed IN!! :eek:

BTW...it's strange that those critters aren't more of a nation-wide thing...haven't heard or seen any yet here in central NC... :wink:

Eric

TLC · #84 Postby **TLC** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 7:46 am

Me either E, not hide nor hair......maybe they got lost? lol

T

Miss Mary · #85 Postby **Miss Mary** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 1:47 pm

I don't know why they're in certain pockets of the US and not in other areas. Cincinnati is supposed to be ground zero. Especially the west side suburb of Delhi, where the College of Mt St Joe is located! Convenient for Prof Kritsky huh? Now how fortunate for him!!! Where I live, Anderson Township (east side of Cincy) we've had many, many newer subdivisions go up after their last invasion in 1987. So most people thought Anderson would get off easy. But no we have them - a lot of them! The Enquirer said Anderson is right behind Delhi, in cicada counts. Crazy huh? We have them at our house but mostly way back in the narrow strip of woods that's been there for decades (our street and the one behind us used to be two side by side farms and the woods/brush grew up along the fencing, which is still there in places). We watch them burrow into the ground all the time in our yard. Jim said the other night - in 17 years years our street will be covered in cicadas! We're hoping to be in a condo by then.....LOL

Mary

Miss Mary · #86 Postby **Miss Mary** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 7:18 am

Well, the cicadas are almost gone now. In today's paper, there is a link on the mainpage for more photos. For some reason kids like to pose with them on their noses!!! But check out the one typing, the one smiling with a full set of teeth, the one carrying off a young child (remembering Letterman's monologues as I saw that pic), etc. Look for a kid in a cicada hat, about half way down the page. Click on that article/link for the pics.

http://www.enquirer.com/today/

Mary

Skywatch_NC · #87 Postby **Skywatch_NC** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 9:07 am

Miss Mary wrote:I don't know why they're in certain pockets of the US and not in other areas. Cincinnati is supposed to be ground zero. Especially the west side suburb of Delhi, where the College of Mt St Joe is located! Convenient for Prof Kritsky huh? Now how fortunate for him!!! Where I live, Anderson Township (east side of Cincy) we've had many, many newer subdivisions go up after their last invasion in 1987. So most people thought Anderson would get off easy. But no we have them - a lot of them! The Enquirer said Anderson is right behind Delhi, in cicada counts. Crazy huh? We have them at our house but mostly way back in the narrow strip of woods that's been there for decades (our street and the one behind us used to be two side by side farms and the woods/brush grew up along the fencing, which is still there in places). We watch them burrow into the ground all the time in our yard. Jim said the other night - in 17 years years our street will be covered in cicadas! We're hoping to be in a condo by then.....LOL

Mary

Could be the central/eastern NC soil type in part of why the lack of cicadas
...guess they don't like the red clay here! LOL :eek:

Eric

Skywatch_NC · #88 Postby **Skywatch_NC** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 9:09 am

Miss Mary wrote:Well, the cicadas are almost gone now. In today's paper, there is a link on the mainpage for more photos. For some reason kids like to pose with them on their noses!!! But check out the one typing, the one smiling with a full set of teeth, the one carrying off a young child (remembering Letterman's monologues as I saw that pic), etc. Look for a kid in a cicada hat, about half way down the page. Click on that article/link for the pics.

http://www.enquirer.com/today/

Mary

I like the cicada 'taking down' Cinergy Field one, too! LOL

Eric

Miss Mary · #89 Postby **Miss Mary** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 6:18 am

Hey all - here's a wx related question for the experts in relation to the recent cicada invasion. The summer after the cicadas were here in 1987, 1988, we had a severe draught and a very hot summer. I was just listening to my wx radio while ironing today, don't know why, but that's a good time to catch up on wx! Today's record high was set in 1988, 102 degrees. I well remember that very hot and very, very dry summer. Temps in the low 100's a lot.

So......any connection between the two - cicadas/draught/hot summer?

Just wondering if we'll see that next summer. We were looking at new homes just built that summer and by Sept. chose our builder. So many new subdivisions had no lawns and or dead grass/shrubs they had just planted. I wonder how nurseries made any business that summer of 1988! We were living in a condo on the west side of Cincinnati. I personally saved a tree in our front yard (it's huge now). Local news had segments on properly watering newly planted trees/shrubs. Forget the sprinklers they said, just use a drip method. Forget trying to save a lawn but concentrate rather on trees and shrubs. A neighbor down from us ran his sprinkler for 11 hours trying to save the front lawn. We thought he was just crazy! Good thing water wasn't included in our monthly condo fees, otherwise his fellow condo neighbors would have protested!

Mary

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