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17 Year Locust aka 17 Year Cicada

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My trees have been full of these noisy little suckers. They’ve been singing from dawn to dusk for 2+ weeks. I was checking my hazelnut trees yesterday & 1 flew right into my face. I have to admit that I screamed like a little girl & about beat myself senseless trying to get it off my face!! All that buzzing & the wings flapping near your eyes would make even the toughest he-man yelp!!!!

I found this 1 on my deck this morning. It was still alive but just barely. It had a pretty good hold on my hand. I added a quarter in the last pic for some size comparison. The pics don’t really do justice to the color of locust. The green is very iridescent throughout the body & lace wings. They are really pretty for a bug.


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That isn't a periodic cicada. The 17 yr cicadas are small with red eyes and have a orange color. We were covered up with them just after turkey season and they are all gone now. Great boost for the poults!!
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One of the all time great sounds of the summer. I have been in emergences of cicadas that were so loud voices had to be raised to be heard. Amazing insects. Gil
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You have an annual cicada. 13 or 17 year cicadas are the periodical cicadas with the real red eyes
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There are no numbers on any of my clocks below 8. Then all of a sudden, 2 days before turkey season they appear. Then right after the season they disappear.
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I took this picture a while ago

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I've always heard they was good fish bait


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killerstump wrote:I've always heard they was good fish bait


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Great fish bait ! 38 lbs 13 oz 47 " long on a flyrod with 6 lb test :thumbup:
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17 Year Locust aka 17 Year Cicada

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Bigspurs68 wrote:That isn't a periodic cicada. The 17 yr cicadas are small with red eyes and have a orange color. We were covered up with them just after turkey season and they are all gone now. Great boost for the poults!!
Yeah that's an annual or periodic as you said


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But still beautiful


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My Granddad always called them Jar Fly's.
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Rednecks call em a July Fly.
BTW, the bird on the coin is a Scissor Tail Flycatcher. Don't know how many of you have ever seen one with your own eyes, but I'm here to tell you,... it's an amazing bird. Especially when they do loops.
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