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2013-05-08 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Eastern U.S. to be Overrun by Billions of Cicadas
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Posted by Fred 2013-05-08 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 If they had more brains, they would take over the world----every 17 years.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-05-08 01:28||   2013-05-08 01:28|| Front Page Top

#2 But why only every 13 or 17 years?
Ummm...a periodic shift in the ether due to the solar cycle maximum?

"It's not like these hordes of cicadas suck blood or zombify people,"
Maybe these will be mutants.
Posted by Skidmark 2013-05-08 01:31||   2013-05-08 01:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Aren't cicadas considered a delicacy in France? Seems to me I heard they taste like asparagus. I'll never know, of course. I'll just have the asparagus.
Posted by PBMcL 2013-05-08 01:36||   2013-05-08 01:36|| Front Page Top

#4 They're looking for just one thing: sex. And they've been waiting quite a long time.

Thank you for that bit from the U of I Ms. Berenbaum. Might explain my bulging eyes.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-05-08 01:46||   2013-05-08 01:46|| Front Page Top

#5 last time I remember endless reporters carefully frying and then declaring after a tiny taste that they "Taste just like peanuts". Be prepared for the media to repeat these stunts.
Posted by Water Modem 2013-05-08 03:14||   2013-05-08 03:14|| Front Page Top

#6 I like the noise, a comforting white noise that covers the screams of the children.
Posted by Shipman 2013-05-08 05:21||   2013-05-08 05:21|| Front Page Top

#7 There are seven year cicadas as well as thirteen and seventeen year broods. For some reason the various species like prime numbers. W've got all of them around here.
Posted by trailing wife 2013-05-08 07:04||   2013-05-08 07:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Prime numbers are theorised to be most likely to be harder for predator species to evolve to take advantage of.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-05-08 08:06||   2013-05-08 08:06|| Front Page Top

#9  I Am hoping they emerge and eat the thousands of inch worms feasting on the leaves of all my trees.
Posted by airandee 2013-05-08 08:41||   2013-05-08 08:41|| Front Page Top

#10 I suspect they'll work on the leaves, they are screaming Vegans.
Posted by Shipman 2013-05-08 17:50||   2013-05-08 17:50|| Front Page Top

#11 Prime numbers are evolutionarily beneficial to the cicadas, minimizing the different broods interaction with each other, thus avoiding competition for water, ability to communicate, and good locations for their sexy time.

For example the 17 and 13 year broods interact once every 221 years. If they were 16 and 12 year broods, they would interact every 48 years.

Posted by rammer 2013-05-08 19:45||   2013-05-08 19:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Looks like Vegan = stir-fry cicada/bug lovers + aligned vendors are gonna have a banner eating season???

[COLD WAR SOVIET "RED BANNER" NORTHERN FLEET here].
Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-05-08 19:46||   2013-05-08 19:46|| Front Page Top

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