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Well, but also not all Cicadas come out only every 17 years. It's just that the VAST majority do. I remmber every summer growing up in Tucson we;d have some amount of Cicadas on the trees. We did terrible things to the little buggers...tie a string around them and just let them fly in circles forever...we were brutal kids I guess...

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">This is common in the natural world. Randomly spaced "bumper crops" followed by low years so predators don't overwhelm the prey. Happens with acorns, cherries, and in this case Brood X {wiki} </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Not as brutal as my brother and I were...We used to play baseball with Frogs. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif We had this really big one and we named him Bubba, but my brother had me throw him to him and he then took a swing at him. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif We were evil...

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Not as brutal as my brother and I were...We used to play baseball with Frogs. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif We had this really big one and we named him Bubba, but my brother had me throw him to him and he then took a swing at him. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif We were evil... </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Can you say .....SPLAT! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Dude! harsh! can you say Beavis & Butthead?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Not as brutal as my brother and I were...We used to play baseball with Frogs. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif We had this really big one and we named him Bubba, but my brother had me throw him to him and he then took a swing at him. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif We were evil... </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Indeed! I still cannot believe we did such things, we were not brought up like that.

[ April 23, 2004, 18:45: Message edited by: Ragnarok ]

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Well, I'm back from my trip to San Antonio (another topic in itself), and Brood X is out in full force. (They actually were starting to emerge when I left Monday morning.) A few observations...

1) they are exactly as big, ugly, and stupid as advertised. Counting the wings, they are about as long as your thumb. Big, bulging red eyes. Despite having such large eyes, they routinely fly into things (trees, branches, telephone poles, you) that are in their bumbling way. When they hit something, they drop to the ground and sit there. The roads in my subdivision are covered with flattened cicadas.

2) They droning sound they make (which goes on 24/7) sounds very much like a raygun from one of those old 1950's UFO movies.

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But how does they taste ?

Do you have the willpower to let such an oportunity pass ? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Oh, YES, I do. I don't need protein that badly. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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Heads up. I read on the wierd news that some guy got real sick eating just a few. Seems he knew he had a shellfish allergy, but didn't make the correct connection...

Shrimp, lobster = marine arthropod
Crayfish = aquatic arthropod
Cicada = terrestrial arthropod

Don't snack if you can't handle it.

[ May 21, 2004, 15:15: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

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Cicadas? Oh, they're just the XiChung invasion force coming to enslave Earth... remember that part in "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" where the entire battle fleet got swallowed by a small dog? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif