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1.) bluecat - 06/01/2015

I took these pictures on Sunday while waiting on Mr. Tom. This is the 17-year cicada that is now hatching out. Don't know if that is a regional thing or not but here they are.

They were everywhere and fairly docile. They were coming in the blind and landing on my sights. Sorry about the focus on pic 2. You can see the spent shell casings on the shrubs (see what I did there?).

DP load up your pellet gun.

2.) Deerminator - 06/01/2015

cool pics:tu:

3.) Swamp Fox - 06/01/2015

We had a hatch a couple of years ago...Seven-, ten- or maybe it was a seventeen-year hatch---Pretty sure we have a couple of different hatch cycles here, although I could be wrong on the exact numbers...Anyhow, every time there's a hatch it's funny how many people don't know what's going on...I get asked about "the noise" all the time, LOL. Some people act like their heads are going to pop off if it doesn't stop. :-)

4.) bluecat - 06/01/2015

I bet the birds (especially turkeys) are enjoying the bounty. They are easy pickings.

5.) DParker - 06/01/2015

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;32237]Anyhow, every time there's a hatch it's funny how many people don't know what's going on...I get asked about "the noise" all the time, LOL. Some people act like their heads are going to pop off if it doesn't stop. :-)[/QUOTE]

There are two cycles for [I]Magicicada[/I], then genus that includes the so-called "periodical cicada" species (which does not include the numerous single-year maturing species): 13 years and 17 years (4 species follow the 13-year cycle, and another 3 follow the 17-year cycle). But "the noise" isn't what follows a hatch. It's what follows the 13/17 years that the cicada larvae spend living underground after they hatch, when they finally emerge to molt into their winged adult form in the third stage of their "incomplete" metamorphosis (no pupal stage).

When I was a kid the noisy little bastages ringing tree trunks made for great BB gun targets.

6.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

Hay...If I'd spent 13 or 17 years underground, I figure when I emerge and get my wings, that's a hatch...

LOL

I've had months like that...

:beer:

7.) Wild Bob - 06/02/2015

As soon as they emerge...I wonder if they get drunk or screw first...?:-)

8.) DParker - 06/02/2015

[QUOTE=Wild Bob;32260]As soon as they emerge...I wonder if they get drunk or screw first...?:-)[/QUOTE]

I assume they follow the well-known procedure that has been established for many years now.

[video=youtube;LL9O0B0gzZE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL9O0B0gzZE[/video]

9.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

Yeah, it's not really an either/or kinda thing...LOL

That's a great Last Call song...There have been a few other good ones in the rotation at various honky tonks I know the names of, but that one was always one of my favorites.

:-)

10.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

Cicada pick-up lines anyone?

11.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

"Did you take the "red-eye" to get here?"

12.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

Let's sing a bit and then "bug out".

13.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

"You look familiar".

14.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

"What's all the buzz about?"

15.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"Life's too short to dance with ugly women..."

16.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

Not really a pick-up line, just something you're likely to hear at a cicada bar...

17.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

Do cicadas like fern bars?

18.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"How do you like your eggs in the morning?"

19.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

:applause:

20.) DParker - 06/02/2015

"How embarrassing. Incomplete metamorphosis has [I]never[/I] happened to me before."

21.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

"Nice ab"

22.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"That exoskeleton looks good on you...It would look even better on the floor."

23.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

"You have great pairs of legs."

24.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

"I'm not just a fly-by-night type of guy."

25.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"Ever since I met you, I just want to sing..."

26.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

[QUOTE=bluecat;32290]"I'm not just a fly-by-night type of guy."[/QUOTE]

Ha! I was just thinking that! :beer:

27.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

"Just to warn you, I can be very clingy."

28.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

[QUOTE=bluecat;32289]"You have great pairs of legs."[/QUOTE]

"You must work out a lot."

29.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

"Meet you back here in 17 years?"

30.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"I'll take you home..I'm the designated diver."

31.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"I promise I don't live in my mom's basement..."

32.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

"You've got your mother's eyes."

33.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;32296]"I'll take you home..I'm the designated diver."[/QUOTE]

:applause:

34.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

"If I told you you have a great abdomen would you hold it against me?"

35.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

One girl cicada talking to another girl cicada:

"I swear I never know what he's talking about...He'll be trying to tell me something and all I hear is bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.................."

36.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

[QUOTE=bluecat;32300]"If I told you you have a great abdomen would you hold it against me?"[/QUOTE]

LOL...:grin:

37.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

One dude cicada talking to another dude cicada...

"Hey, I was the wing man last time..."

38.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

Oh no he didn't.

39.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;32303]One dude cicada talking to another dude cicada...

"Hey, I was the wing man last time..."[/QUOTE]

:laugh: Bravo my good man.

40.) DParker - 06/02/2015

"Is this guy bugging you?"

41.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

[QUOTE=DParker;32306]"Is this guy bugging you?"[/QUOTE]

:tu: That was a good one.

42.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

"Come fly with me."

43.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"This could wind up being our song...And no, I'm not just saying that."

44.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

Do you have a map? I'm getting lost in your eyes.

45.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"What I like is that you're not like all the other chicks in here..."

46.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"Do you come here often?"

47.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

"Together, we can spread our wings."

48.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

[QUOTE=DParker;32306]"Is this guy bugging you?"[/QUOTE]

LMAO...

49.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?"

50.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

"Wanna get buzzed together?"

51.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

"Do you see the world in rose colored glasses?"

52.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

Two cicadas sitting in a bar. After staring at another cicada across the bar with a feather boa for awhile the one says to the other,

"Looks like Harold has come out."

53.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"Come on, you have time to stay for one more song!"

54.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"Okay, no slow dances, but you promised me earlier..."

55.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

[QUOTE=bluecat;32318]Two cicadas sitting in a bar. After staring at another cicada across the bar for awhile the one says to the other,

"Looks like Harold has come out."[/QUOTE]

You beat me to that one, too. LOL

Mine was gonna be, 'I'm glad you could come out tonight."

:beer:

56.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"It always happens...As soon as word got out about this club, the college kids descended like locusts. Let's you and me find some place a little quieter."

57.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;32322]"It always happens...As soon as word got out about this club, the college kids descended like locusts. Let's you and me find some place a little quieter."[/QUOTE]

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall during that conversation.

58.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

My aunt is an ant.

59.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

"Let me guess, your favorite group are the beetles."

60.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

"Come back to my place, and I'll read you the story of "The Grasshopper and the Ant".

61.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"I haven't had much to drink, so I think it's you giving me this buzz."

62.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

[QUOTE=bluecat;32300]"If I told you you have a great abdomen would you hold it against me?"[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=DParker;32306]"Is this guy bugging you?"[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;32303]One dude cicada talking to another dude cicada...

"Hey, I was the wing man last time..."[/QUOTE]

Calling it a three way tie gentlemen. That was fun.

63.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"You know what they say about guys with big eyes..."

64.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

[QUOTE=bluecat;32300]"If I told you you have a great abdomen would you hold it against me?"[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=DParker;32306]"Is this guy bugging you?"[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;32303]One dude cicada talking to another dude cicada...

"Hey, I was the wing man last time..."[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;32284]"How do you like your eggs in the morning?"[/QUOTE]

Awesome

65.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

"Do you want to go to bed bug?"

66.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"With those big beautiful eyes, I bet you can see me in your future..."

67.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;32332]"With those big beautiful eyes, I bet you can see me in your future..."[/QUOTE]

:tu:

Classic

68.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

[QUOTE=bluecat;32331]"Do you want to go to bed bug?"[/QUOTE]

LOL...

"I'd tell you to sleep tight and don't let the bed bug bite, but I'm not sure if I could help myself...While you're trying to decide if I'm the only one for you, let's go to the Waffle House and get some smothered and covered."

69.) Wild Bob - 06/02/2015

Excellent work guys! I needed a good laugh. :-)

So here's my get-away line: "Sorry, babe I gotta fly."

70.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

'I think if I could never see you smile, I'd have to commit insecticide..."

71.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"I'm looking for my one true love. My buddy fell for the wrong girl, and now that she's left him, he's just a shell of his former self. More tequila?"

72.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"Do you believe in love at first sight, and should I hope you haven't noticed all these other bugs?"

73.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;32332]"With those big beautiful eyes, I bet you can see me in your future..."[/QUOTE]

When I look in your eyes, I see myself in you. :wink

74.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"You know what the problem is with love at first sight? The next time you fly by, my mom will already know your name."

75.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

[QUOTE=bluecat;32340]When I look in your eyes, I see myself in you. :wink[/QUOTE]

"I don't see anybody rockin' that outfit like you do, girl. Are you a model?"

76.) Wild Bob - 06/02/2015

"Is that your natural color?"

77.) Wild Bob - 06/02/2015

"Say, do you like Cricket?"

78.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

We can sit here and nitpick all night or we can go back to my place for some bouncy bouncy.

79.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

"Would you bee mine?"

80.) Wild Bob - 06/02/2015

As two cicadas eyed a couple of other cicadas at the bar, the one Cicada said to the other, "Let's take a swat at those two."

81.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"I know you're here with your girlfriends, but I haven't been able to take my eyes off you all night. Could you tell?"

82.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

Too funny, fellas...:tu:

:laugh:

83.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"If I didn't talk to you tonight, I would have felt like such a sap."

84.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

:tu:

"Can I read you a sappy poem?"

85.) bluecat - 06/02/2015

"No wonder she's getting a warm reception, look at the size of those antennas."

86.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"Hi, I'm Mack Cicada. One night with me and I'll be stuck in your head like Macarena."

LOL----:grin::grin::grin:

87.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

[QUOTE=bluecat;32352]"No wonder she's getting a warm reception, look at the size of those antennas."[/QUOTE]

"Is it hot out here or is it just you?"

88.) DParker - 06/02/2015

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;32337]"More tequila?"[/QUOTE]

"What's that at the bottom of the bottle? OMG!!! They got Charlie!!!!!"

89.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

"I'll be honest with you...After 17 years underground, I'm really just looking to stretch my wings a little bit...I hope you're okay with that, because I'd really like to get to know you better."

90.) Swamp Fox - 06/02/2015

[QUOTE=DParker;32355]"What's that at the bottom of the bottle? OMG!!! They got Charlie!!!!!"[/QUOTE]

:laugh:

91.) Swamp Fox - 06/03/2015

"Listen, honey...I might not be much to look at, but I've got plenty of money and a huge lifespan..."

92.) Swamp Fox - 06/03/2015

"Listen, honey...I might not be much to look at, but I did win the lottery and the doctor says for somebody with a heart condition like mine, I must be the luckiest bugger on the planet..."

93.) DParker - 06/03/2015

"You won't let me do that? C'mon...Katydid."

94.) Swamp Fox - 06/03/2015

LOL...She won't do it but her sister will, when she boogie...

"Look, I understand no wing flick means no, but c'mon...I'm the only dude in here talking to you tonight."

95.) Swamp Fox - 06/03/2015

"Well, I'm sharing a place with a couple of other dudes, but that won't be a problem. You can glide out in the morning before they're even up."

96.) Swamp Fox - 06/03/2015

"No, I don't have a girlfriend. There's somebody who would kill me if they heard me say that, and maybe there was a time, but she's changed..."

97.) Swamp Fox - 06/03/2015

"Heaven must be missing an angel, and it doesn't look like there are any in the ground anymore, either..."

98.) Swamp Fox - 06/03/2015

"Mulva?"

99.) Swamp Fox - 06/03/2015

[QUOTE=bluecat;32352]"No wonder she's getting a warm reception, look at the size of those antennas."[/QUOTE]

"They're real, and they're spectacular!"

100.) bluecat - 06/03/2015

[QUOTE=DParker;32355]"What's that at the bottom of the bottle? OMG!!! They got Charlie!!!!!"[/QUOTE]

Good one chief.

101.) bluecat - 06/03/2015

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;32365]"Mulva?"[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=DParker;32360]"You won't let me do that? C'mon...Katydid."[/QUOTE]

On a roll!

102.) bluecat - 06/03/2015

She's a CILF.

103.) bluecat - 06/03/2015

"Looks like you've had a thorax job."

104.) bluecat - 06/03/2015

"Are you a 'nympho'?"

105.) Wild Bob - 06/03/2015

:laugh:

Nice, keep 'em coming all!

106.) Wild Bob - 06/03/2015

"If you got the juice Honey, I've got the time."

107.) Wild Bob - 06/03/2015

"You hang around here often?"

108.) Wild Bob - 06/03/2015

"So, last night I had an out-of-body experience..."

109.) Deerminator - 06/03/2015

:-):-)

110.) DParker - 06/03/2015

"I dated a praying mantis once, but she was really moody and I was always like, 'Hey, don't bite my head off!'"

111.) DParker - 06/03/2015

Him: "How about we get out of here and get some grub?"

Her: "Buzz off."

112.) bluecat - 06/03/2015

[QUOTE=Wild Bob;32376]"So, last night I had an out-of-body experience..."[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=DParker;32378]"I dated a praying mantis once, but she was really moody and I was always like, 'Hey, don't bite my head off!'"[/QUOTE]

:applause:

113.) bluecat - 06/03/2015

"She's a real social butterfly."

114.) bluecat - 06/03/2015

"Want to come bird watching with me?"

115.) bluecat - 06/03/2015

"Look at the sucker on [B]that[/B] sucker."

116.) bluecat - 06/03/2015

"I was just a hollow shell till I met you."

117.) bluecat - 06/03/2015

"I bet your daddy has long legs too."

118.) crookedeye - 06/03/2015

billy make them stop!! lol.

119.) Wild Bob - 06/03/2015

What did the Crookedeye Cicada say to the other cicada... (In the sprit of Mad Libs, someone else add to it.) :grin:

120.) Swamp Fox - 06/03/2015

[QUOTE=Wild Bob;32387]What did the Crookedeye Cicada say to the other cicada... (In the sprit of Mad Libs, someone else add to it.) :grin:[/QUOTE]

[I]enormous

breaststroke

tetherball

quizzically

[/I]

121.) Swamp Fox - 06/03/2015

"Baby, I need to start drinking more water, 'cause you're like molten larva..."

122.) bluecat - 06/04/2015

[QUOTE=Wild Bob;32387]What did the Crookedeye Cicada say to the other cicada... (In the sprit of Mad Libs, someone else add to it.) :grin:[/QUOTE]

"Hey you look like a bug eater too, but who really nos all this stuff anyway."

123.) bluecat - 06/04/2015

Two dude cicadas walk into a bar. The one cicada says to the other, "I came here tonight for a hot nymphomaniac and all I see is sucker moms".

124.) bluecat - 06/04/2015

"You're as cute as a bug's ear. Wanna come back to my place and see my larva lamp?"

125.) DParker - 06/04/2015

"So...do you molt here often?"

126.) bluecat - 06/04/2015

"Is that a walking stick or are you just glad to see me?"

127.) bluecat - 06/04/2015

"You must be a french cicada as I see you have hairy arms and legs."

128.) bluecat - 06/04/2015

"Hey baby, come with me to Hollywood, I'm going to be an instar."

129.) Swamp Fox - 06/04/2015

[QUOTE=bluecat;32395]Two dude cicadas walk into a bar. The one cicada says to the other, "I came here tonight for a hot nymphomaniac and all I see is sucker moms".[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=bluecat;32396]"You're as cute as a bug's ear. Wanna come back to my place and see my larva lamp?"[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=bluecat;32399]"Is that a walking stick or are you just glad to see me?"[/QUOTE]

I see somebody had their Wheaties and a big glass of sap this morning...

LOL...

A swarm of points for you...

130.) Swamp Fox - 06/04/2015

[QUOTE=bluecat;32395]Two dude cicadas walk into a bar. The one cicada says to the other, "I came here tonight for a hot nymphomaniac and all I see is sucker moms".[/QUOTE]

"Yeah, but I bet that one could suck a sap ball through a bamboo shoot..."

131.) Swamp Fox - 06/04/2015

"She looks like she fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down..."

132.) Jon - 06/04/2015

"Your 6 legged pants must be made of glass because I can see myself in them"

133.) Wild Bob - 06/04/2015

:laugh:

:pop:

134.) Swamp Fox - 06/04/2015

"Seventeen years ago, if somebody told me someday I'd be sitting here talking to a girl as beautiful as you, I'd have said 'No way'..."

135.) bluecat - 06/04/2015

"You are so beautiful, you have my mother's eyes." "Wait, mom is that you?"

136.) bluecat - 06/04/2015

Cicada Personal Ad

I like warm summer nights, sleeping late and hanging out with relatives. Love trees and am a sucker for nectar. Am deathly afraid of cats and electricity. I feel I've waited my whole life for you. Together we can fly away. No tobacco spitters please.

137.) Swamp Fox - 06/04/2015

"Seeking same."

138.) Swamp Fox - 06/04/2015

"No Republicans."

139.) Swamp Fox - 06/05/2015

You think I'm kidding...

Don't ask me how I know.

:shh:

:omg:

140.) bluecat - 06/05/2015

[QUOTE=Jon;32406]"Your 6 legged pants must be made of glass because I can see myself in them"[/QUOTE]

"Well I'd watch the 3rd base coach if I were you, Cause I don't think He's waving you in."

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