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Old 05-01-2009, 10:58 PM
 
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thank you for posting that, now it makes total sense on why i had never seen them before last year
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Old 05-09-2009, 09:36 PM
 
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does anyone else have those annoying beetles in their house??? what the hell are they??? they just hang around...on the windows or walls...and is there anyway to get rid of them???my son said they were japanese beatles. they don not look like them.
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Old 05-11-2009, 12:08 AM
 
Location: Scranton native, now in upstate NY
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does anyone else have those annoying beetles in their house??? what the hell are they??? they just hang around...on the windows or walls...and is there anyway to get rid of them???my son said they were japanese beatles. they don not look like them.
What do they look like?
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Old 05-11-2009, 07:15 AM
 
Location: Sarasota, Florida
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No........not one of those. I use to go out in the canoe on the pond of Lk Arrowhead and tons of them would fly around. I got very use to them......
This had huge bulgeing eyes......was quite wide about maybe half and inch or more......about 2 inches long or so.
What freaked me was that it took that Uturn just to come back and stare me face to face...... ( no dragonfly ever did that)
Definetely a cicada no doubt...love those eyes...lol...
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Old 05-11-2009, 07:17 AM
 
Location: Sarasota, Florida
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does anyone else have those annoying beetles in their house??? what the hell are they??? they just hang around...on the windows or walls...and is there anyway to get rid of them???my son said they were japanese beatles. they don not look like them.
They sound like "June Bugs"... coloquial term I think....real name is Stag beetles a.k.a. "pinching bugs"....and boy can they pinch!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 05-11-2009, 07:23 AM
 
Location: Sarasota, Florida
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I forgot cicadas are locusts, they reproduce in 17 year cycles, some in 13 year cycles....and i believe sub-species have variances in the time it takes until maturity.
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Old 05-15-2009, 12:34 PM
 
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I forgot cicadas are locusts, they reproduce in 17 year cycles, some in 13 year cycles....and i believe sub-species have variances in the time it takes until maturity.
got to stop you right there
cicadas are not related to locusts.
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Old 05-15-2009, 06:32 PM
 
Location: Sarasota, Florida
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got to stop you right there
cicadas are not related to locusts.
Sorry, but the names are used interchangeably. I am aware you are probably referring to Africa's locusts....essentially grasshoppers that under certain conditions "mutate" ; because of increased population density brought on by ideal environmental conditions. See wikipedia...and other sources....

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Old 05-15-2009, 07:36 PM
 
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oh ok , you want to use the word in a generally accepted incorrect way then yeah but proper use is what i was referring to. I am aware of what i was thinking a bit more than you and i am aware that you are capable of being wrong on two accounts now. I was thinking of locusts in general not african in specific. Locusts are grasshoppers which yes have in a sense mutated (not cicadas) and they have been found in many places including north america. so yeah i stand by my original statement
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Old 05-15-2009, 07:55 PM
 
Location: Sarasota, Florida
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oh ok , you want to use the word in a generally accepted incorrect way then yeah but proper use is what i was referring to. I am aware of what i was thinking a bit more than you and i am aware that you are capable of being wrong on two accounts now. I was thinking of locusts in general not african in specific. Locusts are grasshoppers which yes have in a sense mutated (not cicadas) and they have been found in many places including north america. so yeah i stand by my original statement
Get a life
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