Cicadas - Party time, IL

Pasquale said:
When my boss got in today, he was mumbling about something called Cicadas. When I told him I didn't know what was going on, he explained to me that every 17 years, legions of these noisy bugs, called Cicadas, hatch and are everywhere you look.

I did a little research online, and it turns out he isn't just crazy. There is a cicada 'attack' coming towards the end of May to northern IL.

17 years ago, I was 5, so i guess I don't remember this happenening. A friend of mine said she remembers seeing "little black bugs all over her friend's lawn and trees."

If this happens I am going to freak out. I don't want to say I'm afraid of bugs, but I will say that seeing bugs fills me with a great sense of fear. (That sounds less shameful.) I don't want to walk outside and see hundreds of bugs all over the ground.

Anybody have any cicada horror stories?
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I just moved here a little less than a year ago. I had to ask my bf wtf the noises coming out of the trees was then. I thought it was birds. ; ; There aren't Cicadas in Colorado (at least not the part I'm from).

I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate bugs. ; ;

Realia said:
Well I guess this means you're coming to see me a lot this summer Aly. I'm not messing with plagues. Ganbatte!
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Can I come too??? :ph34r:
 
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http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/cicadas/13or17year.html
 
Kerowynn said:
Can I come too??? :ph34r:
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Uh oh, not Kero! D: She wants to steal my dog. ; ;

These things kept me up all night last night. They're so freaking loud.
 
Tenkax said:
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http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/cicadas/13or17year.html
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"When the cicadas start dying and dropping from the trees later in the spring, there are large numbers on the ground, and the odor from their rotting bodies is noticeable. In 1990, there were reports from people in Chicago having to use snow shovels to clear their sidewalks of the dead cicadas."

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I'm not leaving the apartment when this starts until it's over. Time to engage that Sugar Daddy plan Tenk.

Alyada said:
Uh oh, not Kero! D: She wants to steal my dog. ; ;

These things kept me up all night last night. They're so freaking loud.
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<3 your doggy!
 
Jesus those are ugly. I use to remember them being brown in Texas. Suckers just make that damn noise all day and all night. It must be one massive orgy goin on.

BTW, what do they REALLY do beneficial that allows us to not exterminate them??
 
exodusamphi said:
Jesus those are ugly. I use to remember them being brown in Texas. Suckers just make that damn noise all day and all night. It must be one massive orgy goin on.

BTW, what do they REALLY do beneficial that allows us to not exterminate them??
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Everything has a right to live. Even the ugly and annoying. :\
 
I enjoy their sound, it reminds me of being little & being out at my g'ma & g'pa's.

And you can have the damn dog, wait for it to lightning and you'll want the fucker out.
 
Alyada said:
Everything has a right to live. Even the ugly and annoying. :\
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Even ruffy?

And Ew. Hell i'm a guy and i freely admit hating bugs. Glad i don't live anywhere where those bastards are a problem. I'd go for the tennis racket and screaming like a girl whenever one landed on me. Those are some freaking ugly bugs.
 
Rinoah said:
Even ruffy?

And Ew. Hell i'm a guy and i freely admit hating bugs. Glad i don't live anywhere where those bastards are a problem. I'd go for the tennis racket and screaming like a girl whenever one landed on me. Those are some freaking ugly bugs.
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This me me lol.
 
Alyada said:
It's starting. I had three attack me as I went into my house today. They got in my sandals. It was weird. D:

PS

You're coming to visit me, right Chpal?
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Yeah^^ Im coming to Illonois July 2nd to July 23, had to fihgt for those days >.> I wanted June but I ahve a M16 Class that week
 
chpal said:
Yeah^^ Im coming to Illonois July 2nd to July 23, had to fihgt for those days >.> I wanted June but I ahve a M16 Class that week
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You live(d) in the state and you can't spell it right? I hope you're drunk as hell.
 
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Hes just in the Army... that right there says he isnt too smart.





much love Chpal, :)
 
Shit so many people in IL I never realized. Maybe we should all go to Aly's house I am in Joliet so I think most of us are in good shape of being in South western suburbs. Hopefully it wont be too bad that is going to suck something fierce if it is horrible. I haven't heard or seen any yet. I hope to God I don't either because I hate that crunch sound. I had to tell a kid what the things were like because I was told stories from my parents of the one before 1990. I was told of the 1990 one by my grandparents, and just *gag*.

Hmm maybe I should have that graduation party, and invite all the Illini here.
 
romperstomper said:
Shit so many people in IL I never realized. Maybe we should all go to Aly's house I am in Joliet so I think most of us are in good shape of being in South western suburbs. Hopefully it wont be too bad that is going to suck something fierce if it is horrible. I haven't heard or seen any yet. I hope to God I don't either because I hate that crunch sound. I had to tell a kid what the things were like because I was told stories from my parents of the one before 1990. I was told of the 1990 one by my grandparents, and just *gag*.

Hmm maybe I should have that graduation party, and invite all the Illini here.
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If you all come here I will be forced to walk around the house naked, thusly making you all leave.
 
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