cicadas,.what is the point

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
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Message Posted:
05/07/2009 14:41

god they are worse than torture..anyone know what the point of them is for...apart from a few small birds that may get a chance to feed from them..Me thinks that the GC..put the over North to send this whole side crazy.!!! bet they did.the buggers...every morning i awake and here them....year after year...Has no effect on Mr Spider..but it takes me a few hours.for the noise to settle then i can just about cope with them....please tell me Why,and What for.



Thanks Spider,X

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
05/07/2009 15:05

I have no idea what their reason for living is, but i agree, they are ridiculously loud and irritating!! I can't hear the tv!!



DD

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
05/07/2009 16:12

Dont worry Spider they will soon be gone, once they finish mating (god knows how they keep it up in this weather) they explode and die, thats if I dont shoot the noisy BA******* before that, i am finding more and more on the ground dead. its their wings that make this horrible loud noise it never seems to stop, how long does it take to have S**x

sheila

spider


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Message Posted:
05/07/2009 16:17

Hi Sheila..yes i know about them..its just whats the point.?? why?? what else do they do.as i cant see that the birds thrive on them...Whats the mating for for gods sake,the male then drops down dead.!!!! :( poor thing.!



Why and What for,???



see ya soon Sheila.X





spider,X

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
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Message Posted:
05/07/2009 16:22

Well nurse awful....they spend up to 17 years underground before coming up for a shag...it's not suprising they want it last a while, especially as they die soon after!! hahahahah!! poor buggers...i just wish they'd do it a bit more quieter!!



DD

smithy


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Message Posted:
05/07/2009 16:32

DD quite right to, is it worth it I ask myself, all that noise for a bit of s**x mind you if they have been waiting for it for 17 years who knows what noises we would make

Spider I,m going out to get a gun tomorrow

see you soon xx

spider


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Message Posted:
05/07/2009 16:41

Sheila make sure its a machine gun. hope you get at least few.!! was thinking perhaps the lizards eat them,well just the females on the way down from the trees.because the males are no ues to anything exploding and spitting all over the place.!!



Spider.x

daisy dukes


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Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
05/07/2009 16:41

I know for a fact if i left it that long....(which wont be too much longer)...i would definitely be making that much noise!! hehehe



DD

smithy


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Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
05/07/2009 16:44

DD/Spider if these little BB******* stop and I hear a lot of noise then I will know its you lot at it, then I will get the gun, then again enjoy and have fun

spider


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Message Posted:
05/07/2009 16:45

naughty now Daisy..i might just here you from down the road then.



enough...perhaps no ones knows why we have them,as 100.have viewed and have had no say.!!



Spider.x

Ailletoo


Joined: 24/01/2009
Posts: 1003

Message Posted:
05/07/2009 16:53

And now for the recipes…

Soft-Shelled Cicadas



Ingredients:

1 cup Worcestershire sauce

60 freshly emerged 17 year cicadas

4 eggs, beaten

3 cups flour

Salt and pepper to season flour

1 cup corn oil or slightly salted butter



Directions:

Marinate cicadas, alive in a sealed container, in Worcestershire sauce for several hours.*



Dip them, in beaten egg, roll them in the seasoned flour and then gently saute them until they are golden brown.

britvic



Joined: 05/09/2008
Posts: 3039

Message Posted:
05/07/2009 16:58

Here is a link to there life cycle.

Vicki



http://www.cicadas-pictures.com/cicadas_life_cycle.htm

daisy dukes


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Message Posted:
05/07/2009 17:04

blooming typical, it's the males that make all the noise!!





DD

spider


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Message Posted:
05/07/2009 17:12

thanks Vicki for that..and yes i understand the cycle..but i just wanted to know what else.like what eats them.if..

or whats the point...bloody things..



Spider,x

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
05/07/2009 17:15

Well if its taken them 17 years to claw their way up to the surface, its a wonder they have any energy left, and thanks for the recipe but dont think I will cook any of them, never know where they have been

sheila

kaiserphil


Joined: 14/12/2008
Posts: 1096

Message Posted:
05/07/2009 17:17

They were in the cupboards and walls when we moved in. Nightmare!

britvic



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Message Posted:
05/07/2009 17:21

Ahh, I see Spider..........................Frogs eat them, so a pond in the garden might keep them away...................Please don't watch this film clip if you don't like to see bugs eaten alive, you can still go to the link.



Vicki



http://www.joshharris.com/2006/11/frog_eats_cicada_video.php

daisy dukes


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Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
05/07/2009 17:34

Not too many frogs up my way to eat them, although Poppy does like a little crunchy snack now and then!! eewww!!



DD

britvic



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Posts: 3039

Message Posted:
05/07/2009 17:42

Apparently it is Ok for dogs to eat Cicadas as they are pure protein!



Vicki

daisy dukes


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Message Posted:
05/07/2009 17:46

Well thats good news, no need to feed them now!! lol



DD

gottheyips


Joined: 28/12/2007
Posts: 444

Message Posted:
05/07/2009 18:27

Actually they have no real point, YET!!, but when The TRNC Authorities get all their jobs done as per Ex Pat requirements !!!, and the noisy little ugly gits keep up their racket, then the whingeing Brit will have something to really whinge about.

So to summarise they are on this planet to give reason, credence and to justify the even worse noise that is the persisting low moan emanating from whingeing Brits in Cyprus and all over the world.



Whingeing Brit.

joanie1


Joined: 25/07/2008
Posts: 164

Message Posted:
05/07/2009 18:36

For goodness sake you lot - do stop moaning - cicadas are part of nature out here as are snakes, amazing birds, non stop barking dogs and the bells of wandering goats - do you really want the island concreted over and then the only sound you will hear is howling karaoke and on the beach instead of the rolling surf the unmistakable beat of gangsta rap. If you have a problem with sounds of nature ask yourselves why on earth you came here in the first place - maybe you all need a trip to Milton Keynes to milk one of the plastic (silent) cows!



Joan (at the moment happily listening to hundreds if not thousands of cicadas in the next door graveyard) hey they have got to be better than wasps!!

spider


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Message Posted:
05/07/2009 22:24

good point Joan...just wanted to know what was the point of them.!!! Nature and all that..things eat,things. even Spiders get eaten.!!!





Spider.X

the butler


Joined: 22/06/2007
Posts: 1958

Message Posted:
06/07/2009 00:06

Hi all,



Whilst we are on the subject of bugs, whilst we lived in Italy we used to see fire flies and I did expect to see them in Cyprus but never have. Has anyone else seen them here?



The butlers wife

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
06/07/2009 10:53

No!! And they are so beautiful to watch too....how come we have the noisy biting stinging creatures and none of the pretty ones???



DD

the butler


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Posts: 1958

Message Posted:
06/07/2009 16:21

Hi daisy dukes,



We did have cicadas and scorpions as well as snakes but the fire flies were so beautiful to watch. I remember the first time I ever saw them and being quite frightened as I didn't know what they were.



The butlers wife

spider


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Message Posted:
06/07/2009 19:35

Now i understand we have them for little kittens...our little one keeps catching them and bringing them indoors for me,still buzzing mind....nice..hope its not tree rats next..have not seen any here,but we had them at the last place we had last year....not nice either,!!





Spider,X