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[Puppy Lips]

Well that is at least one bug that Florida does not have. I do remember them in Ohio though.

[Eileen in Virginia]

Oh nuts, I hate those guys! Even though they don't bite, they look so menacing. 

[Kachina624]

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@January121 wrote:

@Kachina624   OMG !!!! .... what’s next? ..... I hate these things ... they are so ugly & make so much noise plus when you go outside they fly right into you & cling to your clothes ..... I am now positive that we are approaching the end of the world!!!! 

I have to ask ...when you listed the states that will get them next to New York you indicated (extinct or nearly so) ... does that mean NY might not get too many?

Thanks so much😉

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@January121   I copied a portion of that but assumed thats what they were inferring.  If you live there, you can report back to us.

[Kachina624]

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@Spurt wrote:

@Kachina624 

WHEW!!!  You mean Texas missed having those "beauties" in our wonderful State 😊.... Of course we have our regular cicadas.....they are enough to drive you crazy with their "song".....These come out in the summer and it usally means its hotter than heck! 

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@Spurt.  Hot summer afternoons in Texas just naturally go with cicadas.  Sometimes they are deafening.  I don't ever hear or see evidence of them here in NM.

Some people may be hearing katydids which are a different but similar insect.

[Lali1]

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@itsmagic wrote:

I have good memories of cicadas as a kid going on hunts looking for their shells that they shed on trees.  Now I like to listen to them “sing” in the evening in the late summer.   I guess if I had them flying at me I wouldn’t like them but I haven’t experienced that. 

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Same for me. They remind me of summer as a child which was pretty much all year. But to me they look different from what is pictured in the op's message. 

[Lali1]

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@Spurt wrote:

@Kachina624 

WHEW!!!  You mean Texas missed having those "beauties" in our wonderful State 😊.... Of course we have our regular cicadas.....they are enough to drive you crazy with their "song".....These come out in the summer and it usally means its hotter than heck! 

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In Texas these are what I knew as locusts. Come to find out that isn't really what they are. No matter that is what they'll always be to me. 

[January121]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

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@January121 wrote:

@Kachina624   OMG !!!! .... what’s next? ..... I hate these things ... they are so ugly & make so much noise plus when you go outside they fly right into you & cling to your clothes ..... I am now positive that we are approaching the end of the world!!!! 

I have to ask ...when you listed the states that will get them next to New York you indicated (extinct or nearly so) ... does that mean NY might not get too many?

Thanks so much😉

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@January121   I copied a portion of that but assumed thats what they were inferring.  If you live there, you can report back to us.

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@Kachina624  .... THANKS .... I guess I have to wait until the warm weather arrives.... I’ll give an update then 😃

[Spurt]

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@Lali1 wrote:

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@Spurt wrote:

@Kachina624 

WHEW!!!  You mean Texas missed having those "beauties" in our wonderful State 😊.... Of course we have our regular cicadas.....they are enough to drive you crazy with their "song".....These come out in the summer and it usally means its hotter than heck! 

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In Texas these are what I knew as locusts. Come to find out that isn't really what they are. No matter that is what they'll always be to me. 

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@Lali1 

Locusts look more like grasshoppers...

Here's a katydid...

[Nataliesgramma]

Maybe they'll eat the murder honets....LOL

[Villagesbabe]

Ah yes, remember them well in MD. They can be deafening! Living in Florida  so no more visits. Do you know people eat them? Yuk!