[Ol' Badger]

But with the recent invasion of Cicadas it brought me back to the good ol’days when I was young and even dumber than I am now! But I was watching them fly lazily across my yard I remembered that I used to shoot the with the Red Ryder. So I ran inside and tore through the chest and found the RR still loaded and ready for Cicada murder. It takes some skill to shoot them out of the air, but I still have the knack.

My neighbor asked me when she saw me shooting at the Cicadas “How can you shot them after they’ve spent so much time in the ground”?

I said “Just don’t lead them to much”.


:evil:

[Henry Bowman]

We have them here in Cincinnati this year, too. I was thinking about starting one of those "What's the best caliber for...?" threads that I never read and them remembered that there is a reason that I never read those threads.

BTW, I was thinking that maybe that skinny .9mm caliber that the journalists occasionally say is the weapon of choice for gangs and drug dealers might be right. I'm sure that a .410 shottie would work, but it tears up the meat too much and makes it unedible.

So what about mutant zombie cicadas?

[RustyHammer]

I remember using home made "flame thrower" on them when I was a kid. (aerosol can and a lighter)

Lucky I didn't blow myself up! ha.ha

(Those things sure stink when they're on fire!)

[buy guns]

what are cicadas?

[keyhole]

Ahh yes, those innocent days of youth. I remember also shooting "locusts" with bb guns, and spending evenings looking for them in the trees, following their call. What fun!

[Daniel T]

buy guns:

what are cicadas?

http://www.mass.gov/agr/pesticides/pestfacts/cicada.jpg

Big and noisy.

[Bridger]

I was thinking a .22 shotshell would be perfect for them. In fact, I almost wish they would travel a little farther to be near my home.

[hillbilly]

Here in Arkansas we typically don't have the 17-year cicadas.

We have annual cicadas.

They don't swarm out in such plague-like numbers as the 17-year variety.

But they are very common, and very, very noisy in the hot summer months.

I have not heard the first cicada yet, but I know they are just around the corner.

Typically, mid-June they really start up.

They look just like the 17-year cicada, only they don't have red eyes.

They have green backs, and black eyes.

But still leave the husks of larval skin behind attached to trees, weeds, etc.



hillbilly

[armoredman]

this is where that BB subgun really shines!:cool:

[Thumper]

Here in Arkansas we typically don't have the 17-year cicadas.

Thought y'all called em 'katydids?'

[Ol' Badger]

Cicada!

[Nightfall]

Big and noisy.
Very noisy.

[BHPshooter]

They look a little bit like Mormon Crickets, except the Crickets don't fly and don't make noise. Still, hunting them is my favorite hobby. :evil:

Glad I'm not the only one who takes joy in pest extermination.

Wes

[MJRW]

DON'T SHOOT THE CICADAS! I REPEAT, DO NOT SHOOT THE CICADAS! These lovely creatures should not be shot as they are visiting us from their subterranean homes.






















They should be used as bait since bluegill go nuts for them. Everyone you shoot is one less fish you are going to catch.

[J Miller]

I hear cicadas all year :what: . In my head, it's called tinitus. And then the real things come out and start screaching, I almost need to walk around with my ear protection on to keep from getting a screamer of a headache.

As I kid I used to love those things. I'd catch them just as they came out of the ground and take them in the house. Then watch them as they dried out and formed into the noisy critter they are.

Of course the first time they flew in the house my cat was hot on their trail. I loved watching the chase. What a blast.

J:De

[El Tejon]

Unleash the praying mantises!:D

[sm]

Red Ryder to shoot cicadas.
Cicadas to catch bluegills.
Bluegills remains after cleaning left out back to lure in rabid Racoons...
Bonfire to cremate racoons, lets one roast marshmellows and wieners.

There is a reason we are at the top of Food Chain, have thumbs, guns and cane poles. :D

[Smoke]

sm, I like the way you think but...
Bonfire to cremate racoons, lets one roast marshmellows and wieners.

I have to remember to pass when you invite me to a cookout. :D


How about this:

Red Ryder to shoot cicadas.
Cicadas to catch bluegills.
Eat half the bluegills, use other half to bait trotline.
Use remains to bait in the kitty next door that poops in my kids sandbox.
Run the trot line and sink the kitty.
Fish fry.

[carpettbaggerr]

a .410 shottie would work, but it tears up the meat too much and makes it unedible. Read that in Somalia, they're called "flying shrimp" Mmmmmmm. Now I'm starving. :D

[Typhoon]

Worst I ever did as a kid was shoot bottle rockets at the Banana Spiders. Nasty things.

Oh, yeah. We also caught the green Japanese beetles, tied a string to their legs and used them as kites. (Only for a little while, then we let them go! Sheesh!)

[sm]

I like the YOU think better...much better.

'sides they don't call it Catfishing for nothing! :evil:

I'd like some purple onion, hushpuppies,pitcher of tea to go along with fresh catfish fillets.
Black coffee along with fried apple pies for dessert.

I keep tellin' you - this here boy "raised right".

Ain't it great being at the top of food chain?

Catalpa worms a whole 'nuther thread...
You folks do know how to hunt catalpa worms - right? :D

[Ol' Badger]

What will the Secret Service do know!

[hilljack22]

I spent part of Saturday finding the cicadas that were either already dead or underdeveloped (curled wings, etc.) and tossing them in my pond. It would take all of 15 seconds before one of my bass would swallow them up.

I then spent the rest of the day trying to keep the dogs from eating em...

[WhiteKnight]

Supposedly they can make dogs and squirrels very sick, simply because dogs and squirrels are so greedy that they don't know when to stop eating the dern things.

[smokemaker]

Me and Dad shoot bumblebees every summer with 22 shotshells. What a hoot! I imagine the same tactic/ammo would work for cicadas.

As for eating them, I ate enough nasty stuff in survival school, :barf: and no longer ingest bugs on purpose (except lobster). I prefer a slice, no... a whole rhubarb pie instead. Keep the cicadas for bass bait:D

[dischord]

I have hundreds per tree in my backyard right now, and I can hear them inside with the radio playing, but that's nothing.

My friend's house(*) has them so thick that the brown husks are literally as thick as newly spread mulch along one fence line. His yard looks like he just aerated it with those 1 cm diameter holes every 10 cm or so. The noise in his backyard easily exceeds 100 dB. And it stinks like old, wet dog.

(*) on Annandale Rd. between 50 and Little River Tpk, for you NOVA-ites.

[Ol' Badger]

Well everyone else was getting them and I could hear them, but I didnt have any in Tysons. Until Saturday the 15th. they started to rise out of the ground like Lazorus. Now I cant even go out to walk without getting a headach!

[twoblink]

They don't taste too bad, deep-fried.

twoblink = asian = eat them all.. :evil: :neener: :what:

But I use to shoot them with the BB.. ahh the good ol' days.

[Newt]

My part of the country, they're not known as cicadas as much as they are locusts. I know... that's what they called grasshoppers in biblical times, but that's what we call "cicadas" here... locusts. Oh, and BTW, this is what a katydid looks like....



http://www.thehighroad.org/attachment.php?postid=1026318

[NRA4LIFE]

Dang, they were eating those disgusting creatures on Letterman last night. BLECH

[Ol' Badger]

I straped a Cicada to a bottle rocket today. Must have set s speices record for hight and speed. Not to metion the pop at the end.
:evil:

[JohnKSa]

twoblink,

How do you prepare them--just throw them in the fryer? Or do you have to shell them first?

I'm guessing you have the shell them at some point. I'm also guessing that you only eat the muscle under the forward part of the shell--I don't think there's much in the abdomen.

I may have to try some. Every insect I've ever eaten has been very tasty--with the exception of some ants that have too much of an acid taste.

Thanks,

John

[Selfdfenz]

"My neighbor asked me when she saw me shooting at the Cicadas “How can you shot them after they’ve spent so much time in the ground”?

I said “Just don’t lead them to much”.

That is too d funny!

:D :D :D :D :D

I can remember two hatches in western NC in my lifetime. During the last one there were so many expired bugs in the creeks the fish refused to eat anymore of them. They piled up in the slow stretches of water in astonishing numbers.

And they are a very loud kind of visitor.

S-