Damn Insects

[Brian R.]

We've been invaded by 17-year Cicadas. What a pain in the butt. They can't fly worth beans, make alot of noise, and are everywhere, dead and alive. As I type, they are banging off my window for no apparent reason. Maybe they think this building is a tree.

I can hardly wait until they are out of here.

Here's a link to the cicada cam.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/webcams/cicadacam.htm?nav=tb

Here's audio:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/metro/051704-2s.htm

[Ajax]

Are the birds getting fat?

[stcynic]

They do seem to get worse the further you go from DC towards Rockville. Must be Biblical out there by now.

I was in the office after lunch yesterday when I realized one was clinging TO MY NECK! Fortunately my supervisor was there to catch it when I threw it off.

[paulcs]

Hide the kids and pets!!!

http://www.cicadaville.com

Paul

[dZeus]

Re: Hide the kids and pets!!!

Originally posted by paulcs
http://www.cicadaville.com

Paul

LOL

[Sasq]

Get the < mutter > things every year in Sept. I feel your pain.

[Greebe]

Would be willing the 100 mosquito (and the lot) bites I've gotten thus far for them.

[High_Jumbllama]

One intersting but easy thing to do to the bastards is just before they start coming out of the ground is to make a little trap for them. Just take some duck tape and wrap it sitcky side out around the trees about three foot up. We've got cicada graveyards at the bottom of a couple of our trees.

[GT98]

Still haven't gotten any around where I live at in Jersey.

[DGhost]

i spent most of a summer ourdoors ("camping", if you must) and got to listen to these bastards when i was trying to get what little sleep i could.

EVIL!@&*#^*@

[The PIT]

Originally posted by DGhost
i spent most of a summer ourdoors ("camping", if you must) and got to listen to these bastards when i was trying to get what little sleep i could.

EVIL!@&*#^*@

Just use ear plugs.

I'll send you the clunking manhole from outside our house. Ear plugs can't keep that out either.

[Tjalfe]

Originally posted by The PIT
Just use ear plugs.

I'll send you the clunking manhole from outside our house. Ear plugs can't keep that out either.

how about placing a traffic cone on top of it.. will that work?

[DukeP]

It would - if it was filled with concrete...
<sniggers evilly>.



~~DukeP~~

[DGhost]

Originally posted by The PIT
Just use ear plugs.

I'll send you the clunking manhole from outside our house. Ear plugs can't keep that out either.

yeah... i am used to using earplugs to sleep... however... part of the problem with using ear plugs is that i am required to be alert and easily woken up most of the time i am sleeping outside...


oh, and there are a lot of noises ear plugs won't keep out... i've heard a few of the scarier ones...

[The PIT]

Originally posted by tjalfe
how about placing a traffic cone on top of it.. will that work?

That would block the road and err PC plod would charge me. I reckon Sheffield is becoming the clunking manhole cover centre of the UK. There's loads of them.