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The Return of Brood X

Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 2:25 am
by joatmon
it sounds like some cheap horror movie, millions of swarming insects, laying dormant, biding their time, waiting for the right moment, and then returning to inflict unspeakable acts on humans. but wait, it's real!http://www.washingtonpost.com/....htmlh ... et...r.htm

Re: The Return of Brood X (joatmon)

Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 10:59 pm
by ShotInTheDark
I remember that in 87, ugh, gonna be a long month of may on the golf course. Might have to find an indoor hobby for the month.

Re: The Return of Brood X (ShotInTheDark)

Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 11:50 am
by joatmon
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Re: The Return of Brood X (joatmon)

Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 7:29 pm
by Stang2Vibe
Aaah the locusts, yes I heard about the plagues in the past. I was in D.C. in 1988 and we heard much about them, but luckily they weren't around in swarms that year. Last year we were plagued with yellow ladybugs around here. Darn things were everywhere and loved to inhabit buildings. And they hurt when they bite! I'm already seeing some of them returning and I am starting to cringe.

Re: The Return of Brood X

Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 12:13 pm
by joatmon
Cicada on Ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...ype=2Quote »Buy this Cicada NOW before everyone else on your block has one!Anybody got them yet? none here by me so far

Re: The Return of Brood X (joatmon)

Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 1:13 pm
by ShotInTheDark
southern maryland does, the ground temp up here is 2 degrees to low

Re: The Return of Brood X (ShotInTheDark)

Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 2:00 pm
by joatmon
I didn't get any at home this year, guess I'm too far south to be in the Brood X territory. Got a bunch of them in DC though. I'm reluctant to see how many are in the radiator. The sound that a couple hundred thousand of those things make is just like the enterprise phaser in Star Trek. Seems to be pretty much over now though.

Re: The Return of Brood X

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2021 10:28 am
by joatmon
its been 17 years

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/maryland-co ... essor-says
... that Maryland will be the "epicenter" of the cicada emergence set to arrive this spring ...
... as many as 1.5 million cicadas will emerge per acre ...
I guess to be a real SyFy movie, they'd have to be combined with something more dangerous, like prianhacadia, or sharcadia