17 year locust

[No_Bivy]

otherwise know as the Cicada, they are coming out in droves here......anyone else having the big hatch? Sounds like a turbo charger when the sun warms them up...

 

[BostonBull]

They should be out on Cape Cod here soon as well. I dont think they will make it as far inland as me. At least that is what Bob Childs says.

 

[No_Bivy]

the roads are covered with dead ones here...kids are having fun collecting them, then pouring a bucket full at the base of a tree and watch race to the top...

 

[SkwerI]

Funny, we get them almost every year around here. You hear them on hot, still summer afternoons. They might take 17 years to hatch but we got at least 16 separate crops of them.

 

[No_Bivy]

sure those aren't Katydids you hear? Cicadas make noise only while the sun is up...
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008805020307

 

[MasterBlaster]

We don't have them much, but I hear them 27/7.

 

[SkwerI]

We get them both here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katydid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada

 

[Blinky]

We get'em here when it gets really hot, nothing yet.

 

[GASoline71]

You guys got the plauge goin' on over there?

We don't gots none of them "funny bugs" over here...

Just slugs that are over a foot long...

Gary

 

[Blinky]

banana slugs are cool.

 

[SkwerI]

Gary, do they make for good bait?

 

[sawinredneck]

Gary, do they make for good bait?

AWSOME around here for flathead cats!!

 

[darkstar]

John sorry to derail but what the heck is that you are doing in your advatar?

 

[hmm]

making the smell of oysters go away?

getting ready to cook bugs?

 

[GASoline71]

Gary, do they make for good bait?

I dunno Brian... I have never picked up a slug in my life. We have a lot of different species of slugs out here... we get a lot of the small black ones here as well, along with the common orange garden slugs. We have shit loads of big snails here on Whidbey Island...

But... when you see one of those big yellow things out in the woods... they just look freakish. My brother used to be scared of them. Wouldn't continue up a trail in the woods if there was a banana slug on it.

Gary

 

[Paul B]

PNW banana slugs, look out!!

 

[No_Bivy]

John sorry to derail but what the heck is that you are doing in your advatar?

lighting a fire log for a Oyster roast/ Heartwood party

 

[Blinky]

lighting a fire log for a Oyster roast/ Heartwood party

Practicing the dark arts...

 

[treelooker]

Practicing the dark arts...

Yeah he looks a bit like Severus Snape...

 

[No_Bivy]

Practicing the dark arts...

oh yeah ...that too

 

[Cobleskill]

So that smoking log is a cooker? How's that work?

 

[stehansen]

The banana slug is the mascot for the University of California at Santa Cruz.

 

[squisher]

For real?

I've hit those giant westcoast slugs before with a saw and had them freaking explode in disgustingness, I hate slugs.

 

[GASoline71]

Hit 'em with a weed wacker once in awhile too...

They do explode... all over the friggin' place.

It's fun to wipe all the slug goop off your face and safety glasses...

Gary

 

[No_Bivy]