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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:11 AM
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"Locust" shells

OK, they aren't really locusts; they're cicadas.

In my home state (SC), in late summer/early fall, as kids we'd find the "locust" shells on trees and on the ground. I understand the insects pupate underground, come above ground and shed their skins.

Do you find these in your state/country?
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enlightenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:18 AM
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1. Yes -- in Nevada.
Always makes me look around for baby Aliens.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:20 AM
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2. Yes in TX, too. We notice them because they're so loud! nt
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:45 AM
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12. They are extremely loud!
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Saphire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 09:21 AM
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16. oooowwweeeeeeee, ooooowwwwwweeeeee !
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LizW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:21 AM
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3. Yes in north and central Alabama
I've seen them all my life.
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theHandpuppet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:21 AM
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4. Show your kids something neat
If you peek through the eyes of the shell, you'll notice that they magnify what you're looking at (short range). Way cool.
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:31 AM
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8. I'll try that! nt
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:24 AM
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5. This has worried me....
When I was a kid, we would find them everywhere....

20 years later when I wanted to show them to my own kids, we couldn't find any. :(

this was in NE Colorado and SE Nebraska.

Where did they go? I'm afraid the pesticides have killed them off. :(
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mr_hat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:27 AM
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7. You might remember the 17-year kind. They only
crawl up from the ground, oh, every 17 years or so.

Some areas have ordinary ol' cicadas, some have 17-year, some have both (and others).
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:32 AM
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9. That would be my guess too. nt
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HeeBGBz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:25 AM
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6. Yup, in Missouri
The sounds of late summer.
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:43 AM
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10. All through the midwest and down into Mexico
There is nothing better than a sweet summer afternoon nap with cicadas and songbirds and a house critter or two curled up in your lap.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:44 AM
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11. They are everywhere.

They really grossed me out as a child.
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tech3149 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:52 AM
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13. Since I get to listen to them all summer
I'd be surprised if i didn't.
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Cannikin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 09:05 AM
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14. Just had some in Arkansas. They seem to be gone again.
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mopinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 09:06 AM
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15. got em in illinois
lots of screeching, too.
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Mizmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 09:24 AM
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17.  I love the cicada song
finding their alien shells all over the place is a little less romantic.
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Ysolde Donating Member (368 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 09:44 AM
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18. Wouldn't be summer in OK without them.
It's the noise that I miss when I travel, believe it or not!
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jandrok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 10:02 AM
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19. The kids and I enjoy finding those. The live ones are more fun, though.
Lots of 'em around these parts. What's even more fun, though, is to find and observe the live cicadas. We'll occasionally come across a live one in the process of shedding it's shell, or just crawling around doing it's thing. They seem to like lantana for some reason. Anyway, we've found several live ones this year. We'll observe them and even pick them up and let them crawl around on our hands and arms. It tickles quite a bit.

Cicadas are COOL!
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