I went for a ride yesterday around Accotink/Wakefield, had my headphones on, and my music got overpowered by the cicadas!
It was rediculous.
It was rediculous.
Holy Cicadas Batman!
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yeah they wake me up in the morning....afternoon
I was at a customer's house last thursday and they were all over the house, cars and there was a good 3" shell covering around all the tree's. The neighbors small gree shurbs and white fence were brown.
The deal is that you probably live in a place that has been developed in the past 17-20 years.
Go into the deep woods, away from any new developments (if there are any
) Check there, then get back to us Although there were none in Richmond either...
yum.
Holy Crap dude! is that your house?Originally posted by rideLIKEjehu
yum.
Headphones? You missed out on all the cool crunching noises.
The worst part, from what I remember of last time, is yet to come. Once they mate, they all die. Those millions of little rotting corpses start to work up a stink after a while.
What tire provides the best traction on cicada paste and which tread pattern best avoids packing up with the husks? Michelin? Intense?
On a white bullit with black cranks.Originally posted by llkoolkeg
What tire provides the best traction on cicada paste and which tread pattern best avoids packing up with the husks? Michelin? Intense?
I went to Fountainhead yesterday (Sunday) and it was pretty damn loud too. Not that many on the trails though...
Speaking of cicada paste...they don't seem to fly very well and their larger than average size makes it such that they don't seem to follow the slipstream over cars like smaller insects...which translates into cicada paste all over your windshield as they disintegrate on impact. At times this weekend it looked like someone machine gunned my windshield with paintball pellets
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yup, pic taken on sat mornin' just the smell of all the rotting husks and cicadas that didn't make it is pretty nasty...
i pulled three out of the grille or my car, and had to wash another couple off the windshield- just from driving last night in roslyn looking for beer.
ridiculous.
Thanks...I didn't have the heart to post the correction myself this time.
that was definitely an accidental correction
on my way home from school today i had to constatntly duck, swerve and otherwise dodge them, they were flying all over the place, i ended up gettin a couple stuck inside my shirt. and man does it reek around here
Has anyone here eattin any cicada?..........If you have i want to see video.
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yessir. i tend to kick them when i see them doin that...we got enough already. saw a pair yesterday doin that...or should i say one tryin...you see the other was upside down trying to flip over....Originally posted by DamienC
I wonder if they're doing what I think they're doing?
aaaah yes. see, we call that 69
After 17 years the buggers gotta be frisky.