Plague of crickets!

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by alva
From a man who has five.

Yes, but "FP" is only two.

[FrustratedPoet]

Whoops ... major threadjack. Sorry Lancer.

[Ecthy]

thx guyz

[Dis]

also NW Nevada is being invaded

not a problem where I live. I'm sure it's too hot for them

[BustaMike]

Actually, grasshoppers are more of a problem than crickets here in Phoenix. Yeah, there's crickets around all the time, but they don't really bug anyone. In the summer here though, we get lots of grasshoppers. This summer has been pretty tame so far, but back in '98 just after El Nino there were trillions of them. I remember leaving Gameworks at 2 in the morning (worked there that summer) and stepping out into the Mills mall parking lot and not being able to see the streetlights because there were so many grasshoppers flying around them. There were probably several hundred million in that parking lot alone. Crickets don't do that crap.

[Dis]

actually I mean there was grasshoppers in NW Nevada I think

We have crickets where I live, but not that many.

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by alva
From a man who has five.

Why do you think he's frustrated?

[Skanky Burns]

I expected this thread to be about the sport of cricket, but what I found was more entertaining than even that! I thought the poems were supposed to be centered on the seasons though, but I could be wrong.

FrustratedPoet
With a strange entertainment
Delight does he bring.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns I thought the poems were supposed to be centered on the seasons though, but I could be wrong.

You're correct actually ... although the sources I found after googling suggested that although the rules of writing a haiku are very strict in Japanese there is no clear consensus of how they should be written in English.

FrustratedPoet
With a strange entertainment
Delight does he bring.

[Lancer]

[alva]

Lancer get's the award for best use of the : stunned : smiley so far..

[Starchild]

Catch the critters and eat them. High protein, low fat, and a peanutty aftertaste.

[Immortal Wombat]

I believe I read somewhere that some species of cricket remain in the dormant stage underground for 17 or 19 years before emerging all at once. Nobody knows why, but it was conjectured that they evolved a large prime-number cycle to avoid parasites or predators. Predators with a shorter life-cycle, wouldn't hit the same year as them, because 17/19 are both primes, and the chances of the parasite being in sequence every 19 years is very slim.

But anyway, the upshot of this is that you can frequently get a decade or two of fairly low cricket populations, and then sudden explosions of them every 17 or 19 years. Or maybe its just the plagues of Egypt back to haunt y'all.

[Sprayber]

In some parts of Arkansas last year they had a plague of Ladybugs. The ****ers were everywhere. Usually people with gardens like ladybugs but the bastards would get all in your house.

[Vandal-1]

The Rockie mountains have always been subject to cyclical infestions of crickets,grass hoppers and Locust which are usually localized to single river basins.If a wet seasons with alot of forage falls on a seventh year in nieghboring basins well its a bonanza for gaming foul but if you're not a Turkey Tom you'll think its the fulfillment of a biblical prophecy.