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Old June 20, 2003, 09:00   #1
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Plague of crickets!
I saw on the news last night that Arizona and Idaho have crickets...billions of them. Crickets everywhere. They said that the squished crickets in the road are slick as ice and causing accidents! Easily freaked out people are freakin out!

Where did they all come from? Does science attempt to explain this?

Anybody out there dealing with the cricket plague?
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It simply isn't cricket, old chap.
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Old June 20, 2003, 09:50   #3
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Many years we have the same thing here.
I'm not sure on the cause, but what you cite isn't isolated.
Little bastards ate a tent of mine once.
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A sort of Texan haiku
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Old June 20, 2003, 10:05   #5
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Re: Plague of crickets!
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I saw on the news last night that Arizona and Idaho have crickets...billions of them. Crickets everywhere. They said that the squished crickets in the road are slick as ice and causing accidents! Easily freaked out people are freakin out!

Where did they all come from? Does science attempt to explain this?

Anybody out there dealing with the cricket plague?
As with most non-cyclical insect infestations, mild winters and wet springs tend to lead to population explosions.
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Old June 20, 2003, 10:09   #7
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Buck Damned Birdseed made some comment once on how I write.
I can't help how I am. God. I can't do anything right around here.
Don't ever change, Sloww.

Don't you like me writing poetry to you? I've never done a haiku before - I doubt I did it quite right, but at least the 5/7/5 syllable structure is in there.
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Old June 20, 2003, 10:13   #8
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I didn't even remember what a haiku was anymore.
But yes, thank you.
Now, on with the crickets.
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Many years we have the same thing here.
I'm not sure on the cause, but what you cite isn't isolated.
Little bastards ate a tent of mine once.
Sloww gambled a tent and won a billion crickets.
Eventually the crickets died.

Moral :
Americans should not play cricket.
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From a man who has five.

Idea for a new thread though, write a (friendly ) haiku on fellow apo's
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From a man who has five.
Yes, but "FP" is only two.
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Whoops ... major threadjack. Sorry Lancer.
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also NW Nevada is being invaded

not a problem where I live. I'm sure it's too hot for them
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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.
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actually I mean there was grasshoppers in NW Nevada I think

We have crickets where I live, but not that many.
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From a man who has five.
Why do you think he's frustrated?
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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.

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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.

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