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<!--QuoteBegin-Keyser59+May 19 2004, 08:08 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Keyser59 @ May 19 2004, 08:08 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The truth about Cicada. Don't believe everything the government tells you!
<a href='http://www.cicadaville.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.cicadaville.com/</a> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> That site is golden. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
moultanoCreator of ns_shiva.Join Date: 2002-12-14Member: 10806Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Gold, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
<!--QuoteBegin-Soylent green+May 19 2004, 03:34 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Soylent green @ May 19 2004, 03:34 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> 17 and 13 are both primes, that certainly is interesting. Is there some periodic occurance that threaten cicadas?
Lets say something happens every n years, since neither 13 and 17 are evenly divisible with anything but themselves and one that means if n isn't 1 that occurance won't ever coincide with the cicadas arriving 2 times in a row... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> <a href='http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.ms.cicada10may10,0,3517208.story?coll=bal-health-headlines' target='_blank'>check it out</a> <a href='http://www.newsletters.newsweek.msnbc.com/id/4893167/' target='_blank'>more information</a> That's pretty interesting. Every 221 years things get <i>really</i> crazy.
These little buggers seemed to swarm us every so often in Gladstone, Australia. A favourite pastime was collecting the moulted skins the next day and attaching them to my sister's hair.
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I put up some new pictures of the fully grown cicadas. <a href='http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/rmoulton/cicadas/' target='_blank'>New pics at the bottom</a>
A huge batch came out in my backyard last night. They are starting to make quite a bit of noise. I've got all the windows shut with the air conditioning on and I can still hear them.
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Im in Maryland, we get them bad here too.
silly cicadas, they look like they have matrix sunglasses on too <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
OMG teh zerghlings hav unbarrowed ad we wil all die!11!!1!
Seriously though there's so many of them it reminds me of all those people who mass-zergling rushed me in StarCraft once... (No match for my 3/3 Firebats, and 3/3 Goliaths though. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> ) NTM they look [kind of] cute.
Are they in upstate New York? Cuz recently I've seen about 2 of those mature Cicadas with the wings and I saw something really weird on my front porch - it looked like one of the lightly colored ones, only there were 2 leafy green wings comeing out of its back. It was perfectly camouflaged, and had two eyespots. The body looked like a Cicada, but it was hatching like a catepillar. Wth?
We get them down here in VA too, though in my area they aren't as bad because our neighborhood is very recent. My house has huge woods right behind it so the sound is incredible, you can barely hear yourself think.
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Though I have a fear of bees, wasps and other things that threaten to fly in to my eye, cicadas sound like pretty entertaining insects. As a kid, I always loved finding beetles due to the tickly feeling they gave when walking across skin.
<a href='http://aolsvc.aol.com/research/cicada/cicada_map.htm' target='_blank'>Areas that will witness them</a>
I haven't seen any yet. I'm in northern TN. I would link you to the AOL sound but it won't let me. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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<!--QuoteBegin-SuddenFear+May 23 2004, 02:42 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SuddenFear @ May 23 2004, 02:42 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Any WAV files of hardcore cicada orgy sex? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Actually, I've got a few pictures of it that I will upload sometime in the next few days.
You can find many more sound samples - both chorus and solo - at this page: <a href='http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/michigan_cicadas/Periodical/Index.html' target='_blank'>http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/mi...ical/Index.html</a>
Im in Kentucky, and all of Kentucky sees them. The good thing for cicadas, is that most of KY is UNPOPULATED. LOTS AND LOTS OF WOODLANDS! HIghway 41 that runs through town, going along that up north to Indiana, you can HEAR the cicadas in the trees that are next to the highway. I like the sound of it, it's rather relaxing. But it's still unnerving having such a big creature land on your shoulder and start buzzing. I think they're pretty ugly when they're older (save for the wings, they're beautiful wings) and it's annoying having one of the buggers hit your windsheild. IT TOTALLY OBSTRUCTS YOUR VIEW! It's like hitting a freaking mocking bird, you have to get the squeege out just to see.
"If you pull out your pellet gun and shoot some of them, no one will notice you have absolutely crappy aim." would be a good description of just how many there are... <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Mowing the lawn becomes a difficult process when you think cicadas are too cute to run over. As any PETA member will tell you, cuteness is a prerequisite for animal rights. You don't hear anyone talking about the rights of tapeworms or leeches do you? There is a reason. The fact that several hundred of them are plastered on my driveway in different levels of dismemberment diminished the sense that each cicada is a special unique snowflake, but wasn't enough to free my conscience.
I initially was thinking, "Well, any backyard animal by definition has to learn how to avoid a lawnmower. It's part of the territory." So I was just going to go with it and any that I killed would be the ones too stupid to get out of the way, thus enhancing the gene pool. (It's also difficult to tell a dead cicada from a stupid cicada, so this was a way of avoiding the issue.) I quickly found out that these were far too stringent criteria, as not a single cicada successfully got out of the way in my first pass. Developing this trait was going to be a longer evolutionary process.
The first step in getting out of the way of the lawnmower is noticing the lawnmower, which many of them failed to do. As a result my criteria then became "Any cicada who both notices the lawnmower and makes a good faith effort to save themselves will be saved." Afterall, God helps those who help themselves. This still eliminated all of the dead ones from consideration, but saved some of the slightly less stupid ones.
Cicadas, satisfying the eugenicist in all of us since 2004.
Oh yes, at night those things are the size of hummingbirds. They splat against windshields well. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
...and not to mention they make the most awful noise I've ever heard sometimes...
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<a href='http://www.cicadaville.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.cicadaville.com/</a>
Also, eating more than a dozen cicadas at a time might be hazardous to your health
<a href='http://www.local6.com/news/3312493/detail.html' target='_blank'>http://www.local6.com/news/3312493/detail.html</a>
Oh, and the Zombies
<a href='http://www.cicadaville.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.cicadaville.com/</a>
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Lets say something happens every n years, since neither 13 and 17 are evenly divisible with anything but themselves and one that means if n isn't 1 that occurance won't ever coincide with the cicadas arriving 2 times in a row... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
<a href='http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.ms.cicada10may10,0,3517208.story?coll=bal-health-headlines' target='_blank'>check it out</a>
<a href='http://www.newsletters.newsweek.msnbc.com/id/4893167/' target='_blank'>more information</a>
That's pretty interesting.
Every 221 years things get <i>really</i> crazy.
--Scythe--
A huge batch came out in my backyard last night. They are starting to make quite a bit of noise. I've got all the windows shut with the air conditioning on and I can still hear them.
silly cicadas, they look like they have matrix sunglasses on too <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Seriously though there's so many of them it reminds me of all those people who mass-zergling rushed me in StarCraft once... (No match for my 3/3 Firebats, and 3/3 Goliaths though. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> ) NTM they look [kind of] cute.
Though I have a fear of bees, wasps and other things that threaten to fly in to my eye, cicadas sound like pretty entertaining insects. As a kid, I always loved finding beetles due to the tickly feeling they gave when walking across skin.
Any WAV files of hardcore cicada orgy sex?
I haven't seen any yet. I'm in northern TN. I would link you to the AOL sound but it won't let me. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Actually, I've got a few pictures of it that I will upload sometime in the next few days.
<a href='http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/michigan_cicadas/Periodical/mp3sounds/sdecimchor.mp3' target='_blank'>http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/mi.../sdecimchor.mp3</a>
<a href='http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/michigan_cicadas/Periodical/mp3sounds/deculachor.mp3' target='_blank'>http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/mi.../deculachor.mp3</a>
You can find many more sound samples - both chorus and solo - at this page:
<a href='http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/michigan_cicadas/Periodical/Index.html' target='_blank'>http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/mi...ical/Index.html</a>
I initially was thinking, "Well, any backyard animal by definition has to learn how to avoid a lawnmower. It's part of the territory." So I was just going to go with it and any that I killed would be the ones too stupid to get out of the way, thus enhancing the gene pool. (It's also difficult to tell a dead cicada from a stupid cicada, so this was a way of avoiding the issue.) I quickly found out that these were far too stringent criteria, as not a single cicada successfully got out of the way in my first pass. Developing this trait was going to be a longer evolutionary process.
The first step in getting out of the way of the lawnmower is noticing the lawnmower, which many of them failed to do. As a result my criteria then became "Any cicada who both notices the lawnmower and makes a good faith effort to save themselves will be saved." Afterall, God helps those who help themselves. This still eliminated all of the dead ones from consideration, but saved some of the slightly less stupid ones.
Cicadas, satisfying the eugenicist in all of us since 2004.
<img src='http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/rmoulton/cicadas/new/mating%20in%20tree.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
...and not to mention they make the most awful noise I've ever heard sometimes...