Tadpui
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Since I grew up in northeastern Oklahoma, I'm used to the same annual cicadas that we have here in northwestern Missouri (the Dog Day Cicada). They come around every summer, make some noise before dusk, and die off after a few weeks. They mainly stay up in the trees and don't bother anybody. I've got a thing with large flying insects, but the normal annual cicadas pretty much stick to themselves until they die and end up on the ground. So I'm OK with them. We have an uneasy truce.
But this year the 17-year Brood IV hatched, and I don't like these jerks at all. These things emerged in astounding numbers, they chirp and wheeze all day long, and now they've taken to swooping and dive-bombing from the trees from sun-up to sun-down. This is what my nightmares are made of. Large, winged insects in untold numbers flying about haphazardly all day long. These things suck. No friggin way am I going outside until they've died off. It's like a plague! Only a couple more weeks to go until they die off. It can't come soon enough.
But the dog seems to think that they make tasty snacks. I'm saving a bundle on dog food lately...
Do any of you live in cicada territory?
But this year the 17-year Brood IV hatched, and I don't like these jerks at all. These things emerged in astounding numbers, they chirp and wheeze all day long, and now they've taken to swooping and dive-bombing from the trees from sun-up to sun-down. This is what my nightmares are made of. Large, winged insects in untold numbers flying about haphazardly all day long. These things suck. No friggin way am I going outside until they've died off. It's like a plague! Only a couple more weeks to go until they die off. It can't come soon enough.
But the dog seems to think that they make tasty snacks. I'm saving a bundle on dog food lately...
Do any of you live in cicada territory?