Cicada plague 2013

[Stephen Vella]

They came up and started chirping away and then the screeching started. Its going to be deafening. From memory the last one was so loud I wore ear muffs when out in the garden.

Apparently there was a plague in the states, Im wondering it was the same else where??

They come up every 15 to 17 years after living 1m under ground sucking on a root. How do they know when to come up beats me. Now theres skelectons hanging around...

[johnralphcarpenter]

Wow! We only have to cope with slugs and snails (and vine weevil and fungal diseases and viruses..........)

[David Nicholson]

Wow! We only have to cope with slugs and snails (and vine weevil and fungal diseases and viruses..........)

I'd take those everytime, don't like the "creepies" or "flyers" very much at all.

[Anthony Darby]

We get clapping cicadas after Christmas every year. They are about 4 cm long and very noisy in large numbers. Fortunately we only get them in ones and twos in the garden.

[arillady]

Now I wonder if Maggi can find a suitable emoticon or whatever they are called to illustrate it Anthony

[Anthony Darby]

You can hear one here:

[Mark Griffiths]

that is great. I'm not even sure if we still have our New Forest Cicada

[Maggi Young]

Now I wonder if Maggi can find a suitable emoticon or whatever they are called to illustrate it Anthony

Not exactly..........but


   

and then .......

[Stephen Vella]

lol ...so funny and so true.

[arillady]

Maggi does it again. 

[johnralphcarpenter]

Brilliant! We get occasional plagues: some summers the air can be thick with flying ants, and one year we had a plague of violet ground beetles (my wife insists on calling them violent ground beetles); they marched en masse on the house, scaled the walls and then all died in the loft.