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15. When I was a boy, living in DC, I remember the year of the Locusts, 1954 I believe it was

Sun Mar 24, 2013, 09:06 PM

Mar 2013

The dam things were everywhere, my sister and I collected them in milk bottles.

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Cicadas 2013: '17-Year Locusts' To Descend On D.C. This Spring [View all] Faygo Kid Mar 2013 OP

That insect reminds me of Autumn Mar 2013 #1

My cocker spaniel ate hundreds of them back then Kingofalldems Mar 2013 #2

My lab jumps on them like they're flying milkbones. Gidney N Cloyd Mar 2013 #6

Funny thing. LeftofObama Mar 2013 #3

omg..they were incrediable annoying and noisy HipChick Mar 2013 #5

How many cicada life cycles have you witnessed in your life? Doremus Mar 2013 #7

White pants?!? Don't tell me. . . Faygo Kid Mar 2013 #12

Yuck pinboy3niner Mar 2013 #13

When I was little I was petrified of those things. PragmaticLiberal Mar 2013 #10

The Brown X cicadas were a mess stuntcat Mar 2013 #14