Registered: Apr 2011
Location: central MO
Posts: 1120

Here in Mo. the cicada's are so plentiful in the timber with their buzzing You can't hear Yourself think !! Many people incorrectly call them locusts.Here in the Ozarks We call them Buzz Bugs . LoL I know they make good fish bait ! Lots of critters eat them ,I would bet coons do too. Anybody know anything more about them ? Are they all over the U.S. or just here in the midwest ?

Last edited by stonehill on 06-07-2011 at 01:15 AM

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Sep 2006
Location: Flowery Branch GA
Posts: 729

When we had tornados a few weeks ago here in Ga we had the same problem. It makes you almost crazy. The sound was almost unbearable.. In the evenings right before dark was the worse

__________________
TREE BLAZIN KENNELS
GRCH GRNITECH TREE BLAZIN HALFTIME SHOW
Ground Hound Designs "like us on Facebook"

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jul 2007
Location: Stilwell, Oklahoma
Posts: 418

We got em here!

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jan 2010
Location: indiana
Posts: 351

My boys pick thier shells off the trees,and tease the girls.

__________________
Brian Brady
765-639-2771

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: May 2010
Location: NW Ohio
Posts: 529

We have them in Ohio but they haven't started buzzing yet. I remember a few years ago they were really really loud and seemes to be way more than in other years, they said those were the 17 year cicadas, are the ones we have on normal years a different species or are there some that are just on a different schedule?

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jun 2003
Location: cambridge,ohio
Posts: 4143

quote:

---

Originally posted by ahinsch
We have them in Ohio but they haven't started buzzing yet. I remember a few years ago they were really really loud and seemes to be way more than in other years, they said those were the 17 year cicadas, are the ones we have on normal years a different species or are there some that are just on a different schedule?

---

__________________
740-255-3087
william(wildbill)saylor
wildbills101@hotmail
wildbills101@yahoo
http://wildbills101.homestead.com/wildbills101.html

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Apr 2011
Location: central MO
Posts: 1120

Andrew , the biggest visable difference is the 17 yr "Buzz Bugs" have red eyes ! Anybody else have more info. ?

Last edited by stonehill on 06-01-2011 at 10:56 AM

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Bearden AR
Posts: 1735

This is the first time I ever saw them. Their bigger than I thought. Man were they ever loud too.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Mar 2009
Location: Greenup IL
Posts: 506

Just start'n too buzzzzzzz here in east central Ill.........

__________________
RIVER ROAD KENNELS You get out of them what you put in them....

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Mar 2010
Location: east tennessee
Posts: 196

been buzzin here in east tennessee for about 4 weeks now or a lil longer

__________________
HOME OF:
GRNITE CH' NIGHT CRANKIN SLIM

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jul 2003
Location: PA
Posts: 2154

We last had them in 1999. They will make the ground look like swiss cheese. And, if you're riding a tractor, they will fly right at you. You'll have to swat them away.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Nov 2005
Location: tupelo ms
Posts: 505

they have been flying here in ms for a few weeks. I think I heard the news say they were 13 year locust instead of the 17 year. they do make a lot of noise. I thought the neighbors swiming pool pump had gone crazy.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Mar 2009
Location: ILLINOIS
Posts: 599

Yeah they are nuts here in Illinois. I left my winders down for 2 days and they are everywhere!! The dogs water bowl seems to hold them minutes after I refill it.
I too thought about fishing with them. Might have to try this weekend and see what bites.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Apr 2011
Location: central MO
Posts: 1120

I just got in from fishing , I caught 3 nice channel catfish ,one bullhead catfish on buzz bugs I also used nightcrawlers and only caught 1 perch on them. People next to Me were useing chicken livers and caught nothing ! Anybody else out there useing them ? What have You caught ?

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Aug 2010
Location: COMER, GEORGIA
Posts: 716

quote:

---

Originally posted by Jon Millwood
When we had tornados a few weeks ago here in Ga we had the same problem. It makes you almost crazy. The sound was almost unbearable.. In the evenings right before dark was the worse

---

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Apr 2011
Location: central MO
Posts: 1120

Are cicadas other places too,and We just haven't heard from You yet ?? Lots of people here in Ozarks call them Buzz Bugs , do they have other nicknames from Your area ? Locusts really shouldn't count because that is not a nickname ,instead it is just calling them something they aren't. I have even heard them called katydid's , which is something like locusts but they aren't that either.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Mar 2009
Location: s.c.
Posts: 6984

It is rare to hear one here in the lower Coastal plain but they are thick on the Ridge and Piedmont sections.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jan 2011
Location: Monroe, NC
Posts: 31

We have them here and in sc too

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Cat Square, North Carolina
Posts: 148

Has anyone seen them in NC? I personally have not, or at least I didn't know what they were.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Mar 2009
Location: s.c.
Posts: 6984

If you had them you would know. An old tale is you can take a shell you find on the side of a tree and crunch it up and put it in the dog's feed, "It'll make him stick to the tree".

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Apr 2011
Location: central MO
Posts: 1120

quote:

---

Originally posted by l.lyle
. An old tale is you can take a shell you find on the side of a tree and crunch it up and put it in the dog's feed, "It'll make him stick to the tree".

---

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Sep 2004
Location: GA
Posts: 503

__________________
Bruce Hammontree

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Apr 2011
Location: central MO
Posts: 1120

thanks for pic. Bruce I wanted to post one but don't know how.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Feb 2010
Location: fairmont wv
Posts: 169

We had them several years ago. The best year of fishing I've had. I caught everything from bluegill to musky and never bought bait just picked them
Off the trees on my way to the water

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jan 2007
Location: West Virginia
Posts: 214

I had a female that just absolutely loved eating them. She ate so many lots of time she wouldn't even eat her feed.

JOSH

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged