They Are Here, Red Eyed Bugs All Over.

[fishinwrench]

4 hours ago, Gumboot said:

Back in my college days, I had some hemostats...

Isn't it curious how tiny doctors fingers seem to be ?   🙄 

Finger holes are smaller than the holes on kindergarten scissors.

[jdmidwest]

7 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Isn't it curious how tiny doctors fingers seem to be ?   🙄 

Finger holes are smaller than the holes on kindergarten scissors.

Doubt if Proctologists ever use hemastats during medicinal practice...

[jdmidwest]

God love that little boy, he dug thru a pile of the cicada's and found the only blind one!  One in a million.

https://www.kfvs12.com/2024/06/05/4-year-old-boy-discovers-one-million-blue-eyed-cicada/

[jdmidwest]

Cycle is pretty well completed.  The last wind storm that came thru last week blew tips off the oak trees and they are scattered on the ground around here.

After they mate,  they bore holes in the ends of tree limbs and lay eggs.  Around here, mostly oaks.  The tips of the limbs turn brown and die, break off, fall to ground and the larva enter for another 13 or 17 years.

 

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2 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

Cycle is pretty well completed.  The last wind storm that came thru last week blew tips off the oak trees and they are scattered on the ground around here.

After they mate,  they bore holes in the ends of tree limbs and lay eggs.  Around here, mostly oaks.  The tips of the limbs turn brown and die, break off, fall to ground and the larva enter for another 13 or 17 years.

 

They really got to my Trident Maple.   

[dblades]

For all the hype, in my area, it seemed more of a bust. Saw none and only heard a few. 

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1 hour ago, dblades said:

For all the hype, in my area, it seemed more of a bust. Saw none and only heard a few. 

We never heard or saw any at our place on tablerock.  

[bfishn]

Saw my first redeye this week. Haven't heard a one, which means nothing, with tinnitus I hear crickets/locusts 24/7.

[Quillback]

8 hours ago, dblades said:

For all the hype, in my area, it seemed more of a bust. Saw none and only heard a few. 

Yep, bust at my house too.  Heard quite a few back in the woods around the lower end of Beaver, but never saw them.

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When I was a kid there must’ve been a hatch.  I remember shooting them with a pellet gun.