Cicadas - or how I want to rip my ears off - General

Year round ones aren't nearly as bad as the ones that that all show up at once every 17 years. [IMG]http://i51.tinypic.com/2ut5m4o.jpg[/IMG]

Here we have Mormon cricket invasions nearly every summer. When they die there's this AWFUL smell that just lingers everywhere in the summer heat. They always seem to try to land on people, too. So annoying, sort of like actual mormons.

[QUOTE=LSK;30174368][img]http://sae.tweek.us/static/images/emoticons/emot-w-hat.gif[/img]? (Also why isn't this an emoticon anymore still, it's awesome.)[/QUOTE] When I was in Japan. I went to the bug market (where they sell exotic bugs) and saw a trained fighting beetle for about $1200. It never lost any fights before.

[QUOTE=Carne;30176453]I want to live on the edge of a jungle :smith:[/QUOTE] Too many mosquitos

I guess where I live we're just used to them.

[QUOTE=Aurora93;30164457]op's got it wrong it's the junebugs that are fucking annoying as hell [img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_j4ZpZLgssPU/TFsAJSLnqJI/AAAAAAAAAEY/9wpWkencnBo/s1600/u4_june_bug.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Every now and again at night, I hear a loud bonk sound coming from my window. It's these things flying into my window at high speed, trying to get in. :ohdear:

[QUOTE=Sporbie;30165614]These are worse: [img]http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Nature/Centipedes/HouseCentipede.jpg[/img] You know why? They DON'T make a sound.[/QUOTE] [img]http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/6089/ffffa.png[/img]

So [i]that's[/i] what that noise is in games. :downs:

These things explode great when you hit them with a BB gun

[QUOTE=Darkimmortal;30164327]Cicadas feature way too often in anime[/QUOTE] Higurashi no Naku Koro ni.

So, how do you want to rip your ears off?

I miss the sound of cicadas.

Lots of them where I live, I always find empty shells clinging to trees near my house. Cicadas are pretty chill after you get used to them.

Sounds kinda cool. Never been anywhere where they were though.

there sound is very relaxing sometimes they're my next favorite, right next to box elder bugs

I don't think you get these in the uk. Though from the sound of it that's a good thing.

Dude, I live right next to a marsh FULL of frogs kill me

We don't have those here in Florida. But I would think it would be better for the bugs TBH, the rednecks down here play with chemicals all the time. Hell, the resident mosquito population is 1% one year and 200% the next due to people trying shit to the lakes around here. I do admit though, I don't necessarily help the problem. [editline]3rd June 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Jack_Thompson;30169663]At least cicadas don't sting or give you malaria.[/QUOTE] Mosquitoes past the equator don't transmit malaria. [editline]3rd June 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=cagafuego88;30231072]Dude, I live right next to a marsh FULL of frogs kill me[/QUOTE] Pfff, you baby. I have made a pond in my backyard and there is many god damn frogs there and I'm not bothered. Hell, I encourage them to sing for me! I also lace the water with a chemical that kills mosquito larvae, so they dip their children in acid just as they are born. I love Florida.

These things are in giant swarms in the St. Louis area. I don't mind their sounds in the summer, it's quite relaxing but they are just creepy and disgusting to look at. They're flying around in swarms. Here's an idea of what we're dealing with: [img]http://fox2now.ugc.trb.com/ugs/public/photo/ktvi/2011/06/52-10118538-613525-194396.jpg[/img]

I love these little guys, I used to always find one and put a string around it, calling it my pet for a few hours before releasing it when I was a kid.

A single one of those fuckers pissed me off in Animal Crossing, so I'd hate to imagine what thousands sound like in real life!

[QUOTE=ChaosUnleash;30248550]A single one of those fuckers pissed me off in Animal Crossing, so I'd hate to imagine what thousands sound like in real life![/QUOTE] Imagine trying to sleep next to a jet engine. Then, the next morning, imagine walking through a forest full of empty eggs.

I went outside to take a piss at around midnight during a late gaming binge, and i thought i was gonna burst an eardrum it was so loud.

[QUOTE=Aurora93;30164457]op's got it wrong it's the junebugs that are fucking annoying as hell [img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_j4ZpZLgssPU/TFsAJSLnqJI/AAAAAAAAAEY/9wpWkencnBo/s1600/u4_june_bug.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] I always found these guys cute. I would find them drowning in pools or buckets of water and fish them out with my hand, and they would just chill there on my hand drying themselves off then buzz away.

Hate these things. But whats cool is that they can predict the weather. They stop making noises right before it rains.

[QUOTE=codemaster85;30253668]Hate these things. But whats cool is that they can predict the weather. They stop making noises right before it rains.[/QUOTE]Or you can just look up. Whatever helps you though

[QUOTE=codemaster85;30253668]Hate these things. But whats cool is that they can predict the weather. They stop making noises right before it rains.[/QUOTE] I prefer typing NWS OHX in Google.

[QUOTE=ForgottenKane;30232403]We don't have those here in Florida. But I would think it would be better for the bugs TBH, the rednecks down here play with chemicals all the time. Hell, the resident mosquito population is 1% one year and 200% the next due to people trying shit to the lakes around here. I do admit though, I don't necessarily help the problem.[/QUOTE] Which part of Florida? I've been vacationing with my parents to Siesta Key for 16 years or so, and I've heard them a bunch down there.

[QUOTE=Darkimmortal;30164327]Cicadas feature way too often in anime[/QUOTE] That's because the Japanese cicada is apparently a common sound to hear in summer, so is often a method used by the animators to convey the season. One anime has them as part of the title though (Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni)

We have a cicadas infestation every once in a while in Dalmatia. It sometimes gets really unbearable to listen to them, especially if you are on the edge of the forest. Doesn't beat grasshoppers, tho, those cunts once covered the entire central part of the coast. It was impossible to walk outside because of them.