Author Topic: Cicadas (Read 7225 times)

AMGeneral · « **on:** June 11, 2015, 01:57:05 PM »

Hope you all are dodging these not so little airborne bullets alright! They are out in full force here near wichita ks.

I have to clean the truck windshield at least once during the night to remove the 1 to 2 inch marks they leave after it explodes on the windshield. Clean when I leave, clean it once during, and once again when I get back.

Getting to where I can actually see the little bastards coming at me now.

Sure glad I got a new full face modular helmet. No way do I want to take one of these to the forehead!

Was headed north on the kansas turnpike between wichita and eldorado and went through a cloud of them. Five or six hits in a half minute or so. Then saw a couple riding south bound with no helmets and sure hoped they made it through the cloud ok. He was behind a windshield but her head was at proper cicada impact altitude!

These are the evil looking black ones. Can't go into the turnpike service areas at night with out having to step over them by the doors.

twhitaker · « **Reply #1 on:** June 11, 2015, 01:59:13 PM »

Those bugs hurt Adams apples too.

Tom · « **Reply #2 on:** June 11, 2015, 02:00:46 PM »

An alternative answer. Aren't those things edible?

One way to get rid of them.

jwh20 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 11, 2015, 02:03:57 PM »

Quote from: Tom on June 11, 2015, 02:00:46 PM

An alternative answer. Aren't those things edible? One way to get rid of them.

I recall a dog I had a few years ago loved them. I saw a TV spot on the local news a couple of years ago when we had an outbreak here that showed some folks who liked to eat them. They claimed they were best just after they emerged and before their exo-skeleton hardened. They didn't say they tasted like chicken, but they did say they had a nutty taste. To each his own, I prefer bacon!

twhitaker · « **Reply #4 on:** June 11, 2015, 02:06:37 PM »

We were riding the Cali home last night and went through a patch of bugs. You could hear them peppering the windshield. As I yawned a bug bounced off the shield and went right in. It was not a BIG bug but I wasted no time extracting him from my mouth.

Triple Jim · « **Reply #5 on:** June 11, 2015, 02:09:50 PM »

We seem to be in the clear this year:

http://www.cicadamania.com/where.html

Cicada as food:

https://books.google.com/books?id=hc8aAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA73&dq=cicada+indians+roasting&hl=en&sa=X&ei=aHqEUY29KpDE0AHfkYHQAw#v=onepage&q=cicada%20indians%20roasting&f=false

AMGeneral · « **Reply #6 on:** June 11, 2015, 02:40:28 PM »

No wonder there are so many, we are getting both the 13 yr and the 17 yr cicada.

mtiberio · « **Reply #7 on:** June 11, 2015, 02:40:39 PM »

we had the 17 year batch a few years ago, the local birds got so stuffed eating cicadas, the birds couldn't fly.

Triple Jim · « **Reply #8 on:** June 11, 2015, 02:44:03 PM »

Quote from: AMGeneral on June 11, 2015, 02:40:28 PM

No wonder there are so many, we are getting both the 13 yr and the 17 yr cicada.

We had them coincide on the last cycle, and it was almost deafening if you were standing next to a big Poplar tree, or something similar.

Spuddy · « **Reply #9 on:** June 11, 2015, 02:50:22 PM »

Hope they're in remission when we come through in a few days. Or maybe we should "Pam" the bikes....

Spud

Muzz · « **Reply #10 on:** June 11, 2015, 03:11:44 PM »

I have them singing in my ears 14/7

Fortunately they subside when I put my hearing aids in.....

Lannis · « **Reply #11 on:** June 11, 2015, 05:02:24 PM »

Quote from: Triple Jim on June 11, 2015, 02:44:03 PM

We had them coincide on the last cycle, and it was almost deafening if you were standing next to a big Poplar tree, or something similar.

1996 and 2013 for us, the 17 year ones.

Sounded like some sort of alien forest land, that deafening keening noise. 10,000 of them will try to lay eggs in one small tree and slash it right to the ground.

When one hits my helmet or visor, my ears ring as if a gun had gone off, right through the hearing protection.

Can't imagine what the ape-hanger half-helmet crowd does. Just don't ride, I reckon.

Lannis

Sasquatch Jim · « **Reply #12 on:** June 11, 2015, 06:04:54 PM »

A cicada in the snotlocker at 65 really does smart. Try wearing a heavy hoody and mounting the bike backwards.
Or get out the shotgun and hundreds of reloads in number 8 and you won't even have to have any clay pigeons or say, "PULL".

rodekyll · « **Reply #13 on:** June 11, 2015, 06:56:43 PM »

I caught one squarely on the bridge of my glasses once. Well, I think that's what it was. I'm not that guy who can tell you all about your bugs by looking at the windshield spatter. It was exactly like running into some bubba's fist at 65mph. The bug doused both lenses and blacked my eyes. I felt lucky to keep control (I90 in Montana) until I could stop. My first instinct was to tear off the glasses, which I did. The crème around the edges immediately filled my eyes, both blinding me and stinging like anything. I had no more water with me, so no reasonable way to get the crap out of my eyes. A car stopped. The driver offered me a bottle of water and said he saw it happen. He said the way my head snapped back and my control of the bike changed he thought I'd been shot.

brlawson · « **Reply #14 on:** June 11, 2015, 07:05:49 PM »

I lived in a heavily wooded wet area for 20 years listening to those guys. I hear them all the time now.

Guzzistajohn · « **Reply #15 on:** June 11, 2015, 07:34:22 PM »

They havn't hit SW Missouri yet, but earlier today I was up in NW Mo. they were loud and proud up there.

canuguzzi · « **Reply #16 on:** June 11, 2015, 08:33:09 PM »

Yeah bugs. I learned my lesson traveling north toward Bend, Or. Just after sunrise darn things are everywhere. Now in big country I leave after sunrise and after a long breakfast. Let the trucks and cars clear the path.

redrider · « **Reply #17 on:** June 12, 2015, 09:12:42 AM »

We have Mississippi Kites here and Cicadas are the food. We sit on the deck and in the pool and watch the birds swoop in. They come really close and the acrobatics are awesome. Last year was especially good.

Karl Von · « **Reply #18 on:** June 16, 2015, 08:07:54 PM »

We have the year around in Florida but we do have the Cicada Killer Giant Wasp to fight them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphecius_speciosus

LowRyter · « **Reply #19 on:** June 16, 2015, 08:16:32 PM »

Locust invasion !

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