17-year locusts

[Skarn]

So, this is the year for the 17-year locusts in Maryland. I understand it's not just Maryland, but a lot of the East Coast.

Have any of you experienced this phenomenom yet? I was in the Army in Washington State 17 years ago so I missed it, but from what I hear, it's awful! Thousands of Cicadas will be coming from the ground around June and will stay around being a general nuisance until the end of the summer.

Now, I wouldn't normally care toooo much, but I realized just how enjoyable this will be the other day while riding my Harley to work.....I got hit in the face by a small beetle...stung like shiat, but then I realized just how bad this summer could be for me and my Harley only wearing a half-helmet! Ok, I know....so buy a full-face helmet. It's just that there is something about having the wind in your face....plus even then, they will be slamming into my chest and body and that isn't pleasant either! Good thing I'm a buff, bodybuilder.....yeah right!

I'd love to hear anyones experiences with the 17-year locusts.

Skarn

[Speedracer59]

WERE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!

[SUGARBABY]

You are going to get to work and realize you have bruises all over you body from them pelting you - similar to the bruises left from being hit with paintballs - if I were you, I would swerve to avoid hitting them *lmao @ the mental image*

[LOCO]

Re: 17-year locusts

Originally posted by Skarn
So, this is the year for the 17-year locusts in Maryland. I understand it's not just Maryland, but a lot of the East Coast.

Have any of you experienced this phenomenom yet? I was in the Army in Washington State 17 years ago so I missed it, but from what I hear, it's awful! Thousands of Cicadas will be coming from the ground around June and will stay around being a general nuisance until the end of the summer.

Now, I wouldn't normally care toooo much, but I realized just how enjoyable this will be the other day while riding my Harley to work.....I got hit in the face by a small beetle...stung like shiat, but then I realized just how bad this summer could be for me and my Harley only wearing a half-helmet! Ok, I know....so buy a full-face helmet. It's just that there is something about having the wind in your face....plus even then, they will be slamming into my chest and body and that isn't pleasant either! Good thing I'm a buff, bodybuilder.....yeah right!

I'd love to hear anyones experiences with the 17-year locusts.

Skarn

hahaha i can i magine u riding ur bike... and flies all over the place... kind of like jim carrey in 'me myself and irene'

[O2BESOHUGE]

that would suck to have those nasty things crushed all over my new bike!! yuck!!

[jipped genes]

there will be ones that are 17 years old every year so its not a plague or anything every 17 year because for some it is their seventeenth year if that makes since

[FUZO]

IF I REMENBER RIGHT WE HERE IN CHICAGO HAD THEM IN 91. IT WAS FUN TO HEAR THEM CRUNCH WHEN YOU DROVE YOUR CAR DOWN THE STREET

[3Vandoo]

SEND THE NATIONAL GUARD!!!!

THEY ARE MIGHTY TERRORISTS WARN THE HOMELAND SECURITY NOW!!!!!!

[Got Gear?]

I've never experienced this myself... but while visiting a friends family in Saskatchewan, I got told about the horrible grasshopper infestation they had that summer.

The things they told me just boggled my mind!

Thinks like:

-Lots of car accidents... the road would have so many squished grasshoppers, that it was getting VERY slippery.. cars slideing through intersections and the like.

-Cars overheating. The radiators would get so filled with grasshoppers that the airflow would be blocked and cars would overheat.

-Riding a motorcycle was simply out of the question, and these guys were motorcycle lovers.

- Lost 2/3rds of their crop to the grasshoppers.

- Apparently they'd crawl up the outside walls of buildings and such.. it got so bad in places that you couldn't tell the color of the walls!

Your in for some fun!

[Skarn]

Originally posted by jipped genes
there will be ones that are 17 years old every year so its not a plague or anything every 17 year because for some it is their seventeenth year if that makes since

These are quite different from the "standard" cicadas that come out every year. These are like a plague....my parents told me you couldn't walk outside without stepping on them...

[3Vandoo]

Originally posted by Got Gear?
I've never experienced this myself... but while visiting a friends family in Saskatchewan, I got told about the horrible grasshopper infestation they had that summer.

The things they told me just boggled my mind!

Thinks like:

-Lots of car accidents... the road would have so many squished grasshoppers, that it was getting VERY slippery.. cars slideing through intersections and the like.

-Cars overheating. The radiators would get so filled with grasshoppers that the airflow would be blocked and cars would overheat.

-Riding a motorcycle was simply out of the question, and these guys were motorcycle lovers.

- Lost 2/3rds of their crop to the grasshoppers.

- Apparently they'd crawl up the outside walls of buildings and such.. it got so bad in places that you couldn't tell the color of the walls!

Your in for some fun!

Saskatchewan

green grasshoppers, couldnt be from Sask are you sure they were not Green and yellow?

[Got Gear?]

Originally posted by 3Vandoo
Saskatchewan

green grasshoppers, couldnt be from Sask are you sure they were not Green and yellow?

?? I never got to see them myself. I don't know what color they were.

[3Vandoo]

LOL

that was a joke

Green and Yellow??!!!! saskatchewan!!

nevermind you eared freak!

[LOCO]

we got shitload of them ladybugs now..... all over the place... i was raking the backyard couple of days ago.. and the ground is almost red from all the lady bugs...

[3Vandoo]

Originally posted by LOCO
we got shitload of them ladybugs now..... all over the place... i was raking the backyard couple of days ago.. and the ground is almost red from all the lady bugs...

fuck man! there alot of frogs around here, they are everywhere and they even speak french!!!!!!!:p