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13 year cicada

Started by spurman, May 31, 2011, 01:46:41 PM

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Gobble!

They are honestly pretty good deep fried

gobbler74

Great turkey food I'm told. We are due the 17 year brood here next year. Not sure of the group #, will have to  check. There is a 13 year  brood in a region a couple hours away this year. I live in an area that has overlapping broods. We see too many of these things.
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Wingbone

Haven't seen or heard the first one here in West Tn, and in a previous post a guy said he hadn't seen any in East Tn either. I guess its confined to Middle Tn, because all of my buddies around Nashville were adapting their turkey hunting stategies to follow the cicadas. I saw a picture of one gobbler killed in middle Tn, and it had over 100 cicadas in its' crawl. Unbelievable. I'm not sure that turkey wasn't already dead from eating himself to death. lol
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tra_cline

Our farm in North Eastern NC is covered in them, Was there this weekend and every bird you saw had a smile on their face! The dirt road around our barn looked like you had aerated it with all the holes they've made,

harvester


turkeybow

Quote from: Wingbone on June 01, 2011, 11:50:12 AM
Haven't seen or heard the first one here in West Tn, and in a previous post a guy said he hadn't seen any in East Tn either. I guess its confined to Middle Tn, because all of my buddies around Nashville were adapting their turkey hunting stategies to follow the cicadas. I saw a picture of one gobbler killed in middle Tn, and it had over 100 cicadas in its' crawl. Unbelievable. I'm not sure that turkey wasn't already dead from eating himself to death. lol

It must be Middle TN then.  I just new it was West of me  :TooFunny:
"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."
~ Aldo Leopold

harvester

Quote from: turkeybow on June 02, 2011, 07:06:51 PM
Quote from: Wingbone on June 01, 2011, 11:50:12 AM
Haven't seen or heard the first one here in West Tn, and in a previous post a guy said he hadn't seen any in East Tn either. I guess its confined to Middle Tn, because all of my buddies around Nashville were adapting their turkey hunting stategies to follow the cicadas. I saw a picture of one gobbler killed in middle Tn, and it had over 100 cicadas in its' crawl. Unbelievable. I'm not sure that turkey wasn't already dead from eating himself to death. lol

It must be Middle TN then.  I just new it was West of me  :TooFunny:
Heard Fort Loudon is covered up with them.

deerhunt1988

Gobbler was taken the last week of April in east-central MS. 17 cicadas and a little bit of green matter in the crawl.


turkeybow

Quote from: Wingbone on June 01, 2011, 11:50:12 AM
Haven't seen or heard the first one here in West Tn, and in a previous post a guy said he hadn't seen any in East Tn either. I guess its confined to Middle Tn, because all of my buddies around Nashville were adapting their turkey hunting stategies to follow the cicadas. I saw a picture of one gobbler killed in middle Tn, and it had over 100 cicadas in its' crawl. Unbelievable. I'm not sure that turkey wasn't already dead from eating himself to death. lol

Well it may depend on what you consider Middle TN now.  I am in what I would consider West TN now, Thompsons Station to be exact which is near Franklin and it is COVERED up with them!!
"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."
~ Aldo Leopold

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barry

Quote from: Wingbone on June 01, 2011, 11:50:12 AM
I saw a picture of one gobbler killed in middle Tn, and it had over 100 cicadas in its' crawl. Unbelievable. I'm not sure that turkey wasn't already dead from eating himself to death. lol

You got that right especially if this one ONLY HAD 17 in it!

Quote from: deerhunt1988 on June 03, 2011, 02:49:39 PM
Gobbler was taken the last week of April in east-central MS. 17 cicadas and a little bit of green matter in the crawl.