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   In article <655892aa-a3bd-4d68-a065-   
   132992533c2c@a21g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, fascinet@yahoo.com says...   
   > On Aug 2, 10:21 pm, "Matt J. McCullar"  wrote:   
   > > We've got 'em here in north Texas, too.  They show up every summer, so   
   > > there's got to be 17 different batches of them.  :)   
   > >   
   >    
   > There are different species of cicada, some occur every thirteen   
   > years, most have life cycles less that five years.   
   >    
   > The ones we got in Colorado came every year, but I was in DC for the   
   > eruption a couple of years ago.   
   >    
   > There's no contest.  The ones in CO were loud at night, but the din   
   > from the infestation of the seventeern year cicada was overpowering.   
      
      
      
   	locally we are expecting 4 different cicadas    
   	to synch their cycles sometime in the next decade.   
      
   	that will be a true nightmare.   
      
      
      
   >    
   > >   
   > > When they mutate into full adults, they break out of their hard shell and   
   > > fly away, leaving the empty pupae shell behind.  As kids, my sister and our   
   > > friends and I would find these empty shells all over the back yard.  It was   
   > > a very rare event when one day we found one still getting out of its shell.   
   > > We watched it for quite a while... I think it took that big bug about an   
   > > hour.   
   > >   
   > > These have got to be the LOUDEST insects around!  You can hear them through   
   > > a closed window.  One day my father was raking the grass in his front yard   
   > > when a cicada jumped off an overhead tree branch and landed smack on top of   
   > > his head!  To make matters worse, that cicada's legs got caught in Dad's   
   > > hair and couldn't get loose.  So this finger-sized insect is screaming and   
   > > buzzing like a mental patient and Dad has no idea what's going on.  He's   
   > > running in circles and grabbing at his head.  Gave the neighbors something   
   > > different to talk about for a change.  :)   
   > >   
   >    
   > Y.'s brothers who would tie cicadas up on strings and fly them like   
   > kites...or maybe, walk them like flying chihuahuas.   
   >    
   > -F   
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