Had a visitor in the garage last night.. anyone identify it?

[Janx101]

Lol .. Munchy crunchy goodness!! .. Family cats used to stalk them sometimes .. Usually only to play .. But sometimes would find one that had been gnawed on! .. 

[pliskin]

Even worse that Cicadas are the Japanese Beatles. They will strip a couple trees in my yard of every leaf in a day or two. If you put up a trap or two or three or four they'll fill up with hundreds of those suckers every couple hours. I've learned if yo want to keep them away from you plants put the traps in your neighbors yard. The traps just attract more of those bugs.

[Janx101]

Even worse that Cicadas are the Japanese Beatles. They will strip a couple trees in my yard of every leaf in a day or two. If you put up a trap or two or three or four they'll fill up with hundreds of those suckers every couple hours. I've learned if yo want to keep them away from you plants put the traps in your neighbors yard. The traps just attract more of those bugs.

Johr , Porr , Jorrrj and Lingo? 

[JAS6377]

they are a unique bug because they only come out every 17years.

Well....there are several 17-year strains. The big strain is due to hit again in 2021. I was in high school when it hit in 2004, and it was just wild. It was legitimately loud outside all day during the summer, then when the sun went down it would gradually become silent. Couldn't take a step on the sidewalk without crushing a cicada or two.

Actually, that constant buzzing is typically Dogday Harvestflies. They're in the cicada family, but they emerge annually. They are easily identified because they're green. The black cicadas (Magicicadas), IIRC, are in both 13 and 17 year cycles. They're call can range from a buzzing, like the harvestflies, to an odd, almost haunting, harmonic kind of call (Brood X of 2004).

Good cicada resource: http://magicicada.org/magicicada_ii.php

Brood X call: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo-rV3L8C8w&feature=youtube_gdata_player

I remember laying in bed listening to Brood X on the trees outside my window. It was actually relaxing.

[Janx101]

and just 1 aussie bugger.... the various types over here all make 'same' noise mostly... but like a choir ... some bass, some tenor, some alto, some soprano .... no not like Tony!

plus a hectic thailand one.... this lad gets into it!! .. now i gotta go and work papers ... really !!

[mister]

We use to identify their holes, pour water down and flush them out in creepy crawly stage. If you got a biggun man you were the bomb. Little-uns were easy to coax out. And if you had a collection of empty husks. Yeah, you were the coolest.

[Kijona]

Shoot it!
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[yamahonkawazuki]

Heh  in the tn part of the map im DIRECTLY in the red spot. time to get the blower ready lol