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Originally Posted by Katie Reynolds
Aren't the 13 year cicadas coming to play too?
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13 year cicadas are found more in the south and midwest and 17 year cicadas tend to be more northern, but there are crossover states and some years they emerge at the same time. I'm not sure if this is one of those years or not.
I'm probably kidding myself that I'm not going to scream and run from them. When I was a kid, my father used to tell us that the reason cicadas smacked into things was to lay their eggs, and if they did it to you, 17 years later, cicadas would emerge from your skin. Now by 1987 (last time they were here) I was old enough and educated enough to know this wasn't true... but still... So add one slightly sadistic father to a mother who would cry and scream over flecks of dust she thought were bugs and you'll end up with a healthy aversion of all creepy-crawlies.
Heidi
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again, they don't bite, they don't bite, they don't bite... well, they will if you hold them for too long, but little chance of me doing that...