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NILES , CALIF

Anyone heard of this bug that comes out every 17 years?
There is supposed to be around a billion of these bugs
popping out all on the east coast and more.
They lay some of there eggs under the pumpkin leaf?

5/6/2013 2:01:49 PM

Massachusetts

yup, we get them here, and seem to only chew the tree leaves
but as with any bug,, anything is possible , all I know is for 2 weeks or so you need your earmuffs to sleep. thank god its only every 17 years!

5/6/2013 2:32:25 PM

South Bloomfield, Ohio

Yep. Very common here in Ohio, Looks like the cicada killers will once again proliferate at the pumpkin patch. These insects are like a wickedly large nasty looking thing, harmless to humans and love to burrow beneath the outer fringes of the plant foliage.

5/6/2013 4:41:41 PM

Omaha, Ne.

17 years? there here every year. Never seen any damage. Except if you walk to close to a dieing one they take off and I almost piss myself. And you thought walking into a spider web was bad.

5/6/2013 6:19:40 PM

The bottom of New Jersey

There are a bunch of different races of them including an annual one, a 13 year and at least 2 broods of 17 year ones. The most fascinating thing I've read about them is that biologists believe the 13 and 17 year ones evolved that way to evade predators. Those are prime numbers, so predators can't emerge every 2, 3 or 4 years and eventually catch up to the cicadas. They either need to be around every year which helps to keep their numbers down, or evolve a 17-year cycle like the cicadas.

5/7/2013 8:55:12 AM

Lexington, Ky

Try fishing with a live one! Hold on to your pole baby....

5/10/2013 1:08:04 PM