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Re: Beware TN, Brood XIX due this May
Board: State: Tennessee
Reply to: #596105 by Rowdy Rodeo Roosters
Mar 31, 2011 5:17pm
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Ugh. When we moved to NC in 1999, there was a brood hatching that summer. You'd drive down the road and it would look like a buzzing cloud you were driving into.

I don't mind the noise that much. It's just stepping on the dead ones all over everywhere! Reminds me of stomping locusts for my granddad in his garden but we got paid a nickle a piece for those.

Knit Wit
Re: Beware TN, Brood XIX due this May
Board: State: Tennessee
Reply to: #596105 by Rowdy Rodeo Roosters
Mar 31, 2011 5:52pm
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Ugh! I remember being terrorized by these things when I was a little kid living in Paris, TN.
So glad they didn't follow me north!
Re: Beware TN, Brood XIX due this May
Board: State: Tennessee
Reply to: #596153 by knit wit
Apr 1, 2011 6:28am
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It's just stepping on the dead ones all over everywhere

Oh good, my dogs will have snacks. I should save $ on puppy treats!
Re: Beware TN, Brood XIX due this May
Board: State: Tennessee
Reply to: #596112 by Hale s Angel
Apr 1, 2011 6:57am
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*puts on nerd-thick reading glasses with tape on the frame* The ones that were in Gatlinburg last year included the annual or periodical genuses Tibicen, Diceroprocta, or Okanagana. Brood XIX will be a swarm of slightly smaller cicada, such a high concentration that wildlife of all kinds will feast to their heart's content and there will still be leftovers for us to drive over and step on. If the swarm is thick this year, it means our ecosystem has faired well the past 13 years and humans have not paved over too many of the larvae.