Comments on: Another BUG OF THE MONTH MAY 2009: 17 Year Locusts, Scientists surprised By Unexpected Emergence Of Periodical Cicadas — Four Years Early http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/05/08/another-bug-of-the-month-may-2009-17-year-locusts-scientists-surprised-by-unexpected-emergence-of-periodical-cicadas-four-years-early/ Are we experts yet? Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:43:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: CommanderBalok http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/05/08/another-bug-of-the-month-may-2009-17-year-locusts-scientists-surprised-by-unexpected-emergence-of-periodical-cicadas-four-years-early/comment-page-1/#comment-4033 CommanderBalok Sun, 31 May 2009 17:26:04 +0000 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/?p=15822#comment-4033 I can confirm that the periodical cicada will spear you. This happened to me when I had five or six of them on my hand a few years back (they last emerged here in Maryland in, I think, 2006). It was just about painful enough to be noticed. It was definitely the proboscis, and not a claw, in my case. I can confirm that the periodical cicada will spear you. This happened to me when I had five or six of them on my hand a few years back (they last emerged here in Maryland in, I think, 2006). It was just about painful enough to be noticed. It was definitely the proboscis, and not a claw, in my case.

]]> By: longworth9 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/05/08/another-bug-of-the-month-may-2009-17-year-locusts-scientists-surprised-by-unexpected-emergence-of-periodical-cicadas-four-years-early/comment-page-1/#comment-3737 longworth9 Fri, 15 May 2009 02:13:36 +0000 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/?p=15822#comment-3737 I don't know if the cicadas actually have messed up time keeping. They might just be prepping for the switching of the poles in 2012. How long have we watched them anyway? Do we know that they always go about 17 years? Btw, while the earth is warming, it is not mainly from human activity. A lot or most of it is methane levels rising in the atmosphere. Methane is 25 times more powerful than CO2. http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39973/113/ I don’t know if the cicadas actually have messed up time keeping. They might just be prepping for the switching of the poles in 2012. How long have we watched them anyway? Do we know that they always go about 17 years?

Btw, while the earth is warming, it is not mainly from human activity. A lot or most of it is methane levels rising in the atmosphere. Methane is 25 times more powerful than CO2.
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39973/113/

]]> By: manorminor http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/05/08/another-bug-of-the-month-may-2009-17-year-locusts-scientists-surprised-by-unexpected-emergence-of-periodical-cicadas-four-years-early/comment-page-1/#comment-3725 manorminor Thu, 14 May 2009 21:51:29 +0000 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/?p=15822#comment-3725 I found your wonderful site because my four-year-old son just found a cicada with red eyes on our kitchen steps, which we identified as the 17-year Linnaeus's cicada in our Songs of Insects book, and I'm guessing we're in the Brood II area, judging from the map in Songs of Insects. We are in central Virginia (Fluvanna County)--seems like this guy (he seems on the small side compared to the other cicadas we've seen here) is 4 years early? I found your wonderful site because my four-year-old son just found a cicada with red eyes on our kitchen steps, which we identified as the 17-year Linnaeus’s cicada in our Songs of Insects book, and I’m guessing we’re in the Brood II area, judging from the map in Songs of Insects. We are in central Virginia (Fluvanna County)–seems like this guy (he seems on the small side compared to the other cicadas we’ve seen here) is 4 years early?

]]> By: karenaso http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/05/08/another-bug-of-the-month-may-2009-17-year-locusts-scientists-surprised-by-unexpected-emergence-of-periodical-cicadas-four-years-early/comment-page-1/#comment-3638 karenaso Sat, 09 May 2009 20:51:46 +0000 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/?p=15822#comment-3638 can't be good that the poor cicadas are screwed up..also i didn't think that they stung? can’t be good that the poor cicadas are screwed up..also i didn’t think that they stung?

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