A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2004 We are supposed to get the seventeen year locusts this year!!!

UGH!!

That is one noise that I absolutely cannot stand!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOO , I was young when we had them before, but oh do I remember them.....

This is the year!!!

i don't ever remember them. wonder if it is one of those things i was out of the country for or if they just don't come this far south for you!

Locusts or Cicadas?

Hi I thought this link would help....

Maryland gets tons of them, I remember them so vividly.....seems like they were everywhere.....

cicadas

The sound they make is enough to drive a person nutty.....

Yikes! This doesn't sound like it's gonna be too much fun

I have always called the yearly bugs that we get at the end of the summer cicadas and the 17 year one`s locust. You learn something new everyday.

I wonder if locust is the common name?

Here`s a link that shows a drawing:

http://www.rce.rutgers.edu/pubs/pdfs/fs220.pdf

I tell you, I live in a very heavily wooded area....all around me are mountains and trees....I don't want them.....

But I was talking to my mom and we were saying how amazing it is really that they are so accurate, to bury into the ground and come up every seventeen years without fail.....It's also strange to me that this only occurs in the eastern US.....

I think I am more afraid of the shells they leave behind on the tree trunks and sometimes in my gardens -
THEY FREAK ME OUT!!!

I was 10 when we last had them and I don't remember the shells, although I do remember the constant noise, and them being splattered all over the windowshield.....

we have cicadas here every summer - though not in the numbers that happen every 17 years - and they ALWAYS discard their shells and leave them all over the garden - it's especially bad in my parents' rock garden which I plant every mother's day!
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW :p

here is a link to a picture of a shell:
cicada shell!!!

Lynne, that's disgusting....lol I hate any kind of bugs....I don't remember them, but like I said I was only 10....I get squeamish when I find slugs and worms in the soil..... I'm a wimp I know.....

Hey does anyone know those walking stick insects.....I had one in my garden last summer for weeks.....aren't they endangered?????

I just tried to do a search on them, but didn't find walking sticks on any endangered list.
We get them occassionally here.
When I was growing up, we were told that the Praying Mantis was endangered -
we used to see them often!