Swarm of Cicadas Takes Aim at U.S.

Posted by michael on Friday March 12, 2004 @07:59AM from the check-your-screen-doors dept.

wetshoe writes "'After 17 years of relative quiet, Mother Nature is bringing the noise. 'Periodical cicadas, a species of the grasshopper-like insects best known for the scratching, screeching "singing" of the males, will emerge this May, filling forests in more than a dozen states. Almost as abruptly as they arrive, they'll disappear underground for another 17 years.' The article also talks about areas in the Mid-West where 17-year June Bugs sometimes overlap with 13-year June Bugs. I remember as a child one such time, you literally couldn't walk anywhere without stepping on them, they were everywhere. Reminded me of a biblical plague."

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Wow! by Reducer2001 · 2004-03-12 08:03 · Score: 5, Funny

Reminded me of a biblical plague. Wow! You must be old!

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Re:Not June Bugs by Waffle+Iron · 2004-03-12 08:16 · Score: 5, Funny

Those big juicy June bugs (which show up every year, and not just in June) have to be the stupidest creatures on this planet. Their entire brain can be implemented in a few lines of code:
begin:
start uncontrolled flight
crash hard into random object
fall to ground and land on back
take 10 minutes to flip onto legs
goto begin
I really don't know what they're trying to accomplish, or why they bother when they're so bad at it.