#275 VIII. Miscellaneous Cicada Categories

"The only insect I know of that can actually drown out, or drone out, a teenager's stereo.  Sounds better than rap too. " - nicotiana99

 

 Rumors and Cicadas.

A.  RUMOR HAS IT THAT BECAUSE THESE CRITTERS HAVE BEEN IN THE GROUND SUCKING UP NUTRIENTS THAT THEY MAY HAVE VERY MILD HALUCINOGENIC PROPERTIES!?!?  -jasubar

B.  I have heard no reports of anyone getting stoned off  of Cicadas....Just remember the Colorado River Toad. If you lick one of them you go to jail. -ardentlake

C. I didn't realize there were any toad-lickers left out there! -otisrefrig

Suggestions and Cicadas

a.  Isn't Jon Secada's career sagging?  Perhaps he should come up with a medley of "insectious" tunes...perhaps entitled "Secada Sings Cedada."  krismisferry

b.  There is one thing to do before you fry them...get drunk as hell or you wont be able nto eat the second one. - glennleroy

C.  >My Granddaddy told me this story a long time ago. I believe him. When he was 6 he was outside playing. He let a fart and all of a sudden a bunch of cicadas started flying after him. He ran as fast as he could but could not out run them. He fell. The cicadas all landed on his butt. He swears they like the smell of farts. His mom had to pick the cicadas off his pants. Don't fart outside when the cicadas come.  creamygoodness47

d.  Make sure you stock up on window washer fluid though....dcbriman    

Management and Cicadas  
(i'd rather be chased by a man-eating sasquatch than a cicada  -coven828)

a.  Can we stop them? Hell-no!
Anyone have a flame thrower they don't want? -condonmartinis  

b.  bush will attack them with shock and awe.  -blueheronwv 

c.  Don't think you can rid your yard of cicadas by ripping off their wings and forcing them up your swimming poold filter. I tried it when I was 10. We still had way too many cicadas and Mom had to buy a new filter!! -burlboxer1

d.  One interesting fact, though.  If you hold them by their wings and pull their front legs, their beady little heads pop off!  Pull away, kids!!!  lol  -angcllr

e.  I've only seen one cicada killer wasp in my life, and it was bigger than my big toe.  I know this because it landed on my big toe before it hopped on top of a cicada and flew off with it.  Dang, that was a big mofo of a wasp!    -poetamelie

Greek Myths and Cicadas  

A.   I always wait each summer for the lamplight of the first firefly and, about a month later, for the first scratchy song of the Cicada. I love the rising cadence and measured fall of their song, and then the abrupt and sudden silence. And I love the way choirs of cicadas sing their songs in rounds. There's a lovely Greek myth about how the Cicada came to be in a story concerning the goddess Aurora falling in love with a human, Tithonus.She asked the gods to make him immortal but forgot to ask that he also be eternally young. When he grew old and wizened, she locked him away in a room, where he cried out piteously in his ancient voice until, one day each year, she released him to be young again and be her love. I alwaysthink of that story when I hear the Cicada's cry.  -dlion0305