A. I was in my cousin's wedding in the Cincinnati, Ohio area in June of 1970, and we bridesmaids went out to the beauty shop to get our hair done, you know the big boufant doos that were sprayed with a can of hairspray to lacquer them in place. I remember when we got back to her home to dress, the cicadas were just hanging in the air like a big, dark, buggy, buzzing curtain. It was straight out of a horror flick. We had to run through it though screaming (with our hands over our nose and mouths so we wouldn't have one crawl in there.) Once inside her home, we jumped around screaming with our flesh just goosebumped out, while my aunt, uncle and each other tried to debug our hair since these nasty things just got stuck in it. And they are big: a kind of a cross between a huge fly but with the hardness of a junebug, and the size of a big, fat grasshopper as I remember. And the noise they make!!! Thousands of them buzzing in the air is horrible and is something you never forget! However its worse to have one stuck in your hair buzzing next to your ear. I think they can make the noise by rubbing their big wings together.
BUT as creepy as this experience was; the biggest creep of the wedding turned out to be the groom, who was actually just marrying my cuz to have her work to put him through med school, as she sadly learned from loveletters to his girlfriend that she found. Yes, she divorced the creep. He was worse than a cicada, hmmmmmmmmmm human size maggot perhaps? -cybotot
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A hair nest for cicadas. Greeeeaaat.
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