off topic with bugs..RE: Vegan...more than just a diet

April 23, 2002

they were east coast 17 yr cicadas!! hahaha....this was while i was still living

with the father parental unit...it must have been about april, late '70's or

early early 80's... or so...

they were huge, at least several inches long(well, everything looks bigger when

you are like 10-13..hahahah)

the cicadas out on the west coast are tiny...maybe half an inch to an

inch....you hear them more them see them....

the ones i remember..they came out just as the leaves were blooming and massed

just before summer hit..they were everywhere..and, the din was

incredible...then, we went to california for the summer, and when we got back

several months later, they had all laid eggs and shuffled off this mortal coil

and moved to bug heaven..

but, the, for eerie noise, the cicadas loose out to the gypsy moth

caterpilars....when they got really bad, you could hear them...relieving

...themselves in the woods..lil bug poos raining down....sounded like rain...

ick!!

igs? iguanas??? i had an iguana for 10 yrs....you'll never guess wot happened to

it...

*curses she who will not be named...*

*big smile*

ahem...anyways....where was i ?

fraggle

" jojo " <tofujojo wrote:

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>Monday, April 22, 2002 11:14 AM

>RE: Re: Re: Vegan...more than just a diet

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>> really? the 17 yr cicadas i remmeber were bloody well huge!!! the regular

>ones we have now are tiny in comparison...weird

>

>Hmm... the rarer ones here on the east coast are definitely smaller. Like

>1/2 the size of the common ones. Maybe it's different from coast to coast?

>I don't know what the common names for them are, though (i.e 17 year or 1

>year or whathaveyou)

>

>> and, yes, have been bit more then once by a walking stick...dang lil

>buggers....and by praying mantis as well..i must look tasty....

>

>Heehee -- maybe you do! I know one of my igs think my little pink toesies

>look mighty good. I have to wear shoes at all times around her -- lol.

>

>--jojo

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April 23, 2002

that was the big un i remember..

the ones out here in california are tiny in comparison

and the one from thailand looks like a lunar moth er something!!!!

" jojo " <tofujojo wrote:

>Ack -- you beat me to it: I was just about to post this when I got your post

-- you just *had* to out-do me, didn't ya?!

>

>Fraggle -- I got curious about the cicadas on the east coast vs. cicadas on the

west coast and here is what I found:

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>>>There are about 180 species in North America; adults of these species range

from approximately 1 to 2 in. (2.5-5 cm) in length. The periodical cicadas

(Megacicadaspecies), found in the eastern half of the continent, have the

longest known life cycles of any insect. Because of their periodic appearance

they are often called locusts, although they are not related to true locusts.

Their life cycle takes 17 years in northern species (the so-called 17-year

locusts) and 13 years in southern species; the two types overlap in parts of the

United States.<<

>

>This is from http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/c/cicada.asp

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>>>Other North American cicadas (Tibicenspecies and others) are known as dog-day

cicadas, or harvest flies, because the adults appear in late summer. <<

>

>These must be the big-uns'. The name Megacicada is a mistake apparently. It's

supposed to be Magicicada. And I can't find a site that says that they are in

California. It says that Magicicada (the pretty little ones) are East Coast

dwellers. So maybe you do get different ones out that way...? Here is a pic of

a Magicicada. I saw them in MD a couple of years ago:

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>And check out this one from Thailand:

>

> And I thought ours were gorgeous! I am *so* jealous now....

>

>So I *still* don't know what kind of cicadas you get in California

>

>-- jojo

>

April 23, 2002

Ack -- you beat me to it: I was just about to post this when I got your post -- you just *had* to out-do me, didn't ya?!

Fraggle -- I got curious about the cicadas on the east coast vs. cicadas on the west coast and here is what I found:

>>There are about 180 species in North America; adults of these species range from approximately 1 to 2 in. (2.5-5 cm) in length. The periodical cicadas (Megacicadaspecies), found in the eastern half of the continent, have the longest known life cycles of any insect. Because of their periodic appearance they are often called locusts, although they are not related to true locusts. Their life cycle takes 17 years in northern species (the so-called 17-year locusts) and 13 years in southern species; the two types overlap in parts of the United States.<<

This is from http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/c/cicada.asp

>>Other North American cicadas (Tibicenspecies and others) are known as dog-day cicadas, or harvest flies, because the adults appear in late summer. <<

These must be the big-uns'. The name Megacicada is a mistake apparently. It's supposed to be Magicicada. And I can't find a site that says that they are in California. It says that Magicicada (the pretty little ones) are East Coast dwellers. So maybe you do get different ones out that way...? Here is a pic of a Magicicada. I saw them in MD a couple of years ago:

And check out this one from Thailand:

And I thought ours were gorgeous! I am *so* jealous now....

So I *still* don't know what kind of cicadas you get in California

-- jojo