What to know about the trillions of cicadas surfacing this spring

Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries.
#shorts #cicadas #environment #climate #insects #bugs

[@GrayFrogg]

That first cicada looked like he was driving a stick shift.

[@joelglanton6531]

He looked like Yoda with his walking stick when he's pretending to act crazy in Empire Strikes Back

[@dmike391]

Hahahahahaha fulk that's great

[@m3tr0idgrl]

She's forklift certified

[@GrayFrogg]

@@m3tr0idgrl 🤣

[@GrayFrogg]

@@joelglanton6531 🤣

[@hobbitsesam]

they are noisy af

[@Bay510Area]

🥁

[@LeigonX]

You stop hearing them after a while

[@chasingthefish9042]

​@Cricketmane it's sad isn't it?

[@firstletterofthealphabet7308]

If cicadas annoy you I’ll have you know that we have annual cicadas here in thailand. Think about that.

[@hobbitsesam]

It's just on animal crossing It's so annoying that sound! I've heard they actually sound like this. We don't have them at all in the UK the only nature sounds we get is the birds

[@alexanderlangdon92]

You call tell that guy loves his job

[@FartInYourFace234]

Can/call same thing

[@SlimmyDoThangs]

I'm not coo with anything peeing on me

[@msswart9119]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@bennypit4411]

And according the leftist dummies like the View, they are brought by climate change....just like the solar eclipse LOL

[@WW.FWATTUHERDRADIO-he9oo]

Yeah... singing in the "Rain " Lol 😂 cicada mist 😂.....😅

[@sckrolik]

*Cicada noise Ahh summer..

[@NinjaSushi2]

The sound of childhood.

[@Lol-ll5gh]

cicadas, the soundtrack to higurashi

[@GoneJustinSeconds]

Cicadas and willows in the morning.

[@BiLdoEMcLown]

Cicada sounds = bug twerking noises

[@meghansullivan6812]

right! :)

[@roki5072]

So basically noisy sprinklers

[@anthonyn1157]

More like sprinklers that can synchronize their screaming.

[@roki5072]

@@anthonyn1157 "scream of the thousands dying souls"

[@adityarasendriya5138]

​@@roki5072 Sounds nice :3

[@roki5072]

@@adityarasendriya5138 calm down satan XD

[@TheMonkey747]

Doubled Ear Protection... Hot and Deaf all Summer...😢 Sounds like Home.

[@discountedcashflows]

I like the cicada expert, seems like a homie

[@KingOfHarlots86]

👀 a cicada wrote this

[@jacobmccaslin1195]

Bro is definitely chill

[@SynthiaVan]

Dude is all about them prime numbers, I'm into it too hmu

[@jessietran452]

Was coming to say that😂

[@NEWEST123]

Yes he was real chill !!

[@ravenaddams6299]

In Louisiana, we are getting 3 varieties at the same time. First time in over 100 years.

[@barbarahill9176]

Best wishes to you! 😳😂

[@mystics1ay3r17]

Just don’t open your mouth outside.

[@MrEunderwood]

We got more bugs than anywhere else in the lower 48. It's a madhouse down here!

[@ravenaddams6299]

@MrEunderwood ever been to the swamps of Louisiana? If the Gators and snakes don't get ya, the bugs will.

[@JJtvee]

That's so cool!!!

[@BrandydocMeriabuck]

I've been conditioned by anime to think about cicadas as a nostalgic herald of summer, when I hear them it's like relaxing white noise lol

[@joycebrewer4150]

I didn't need anime to get that effect. Just functional memory. At least until a large horde of them all sing at once!

[@RuthlessPlatypuss]

White noise.. could take you to some places in aus and it’s all you can hear.. like sitting next to a jet engine

[@bryanc1886]

Conditioned by anime 🤦

[@BrandydocMeriabuck]

@@joycebrewer4150 Yeah, we don't have cicadas where I'm from so I only ever hear them through things like anime or movies

[@BrandydocMeriabuck]

@@RuthlessPlatypuss Haha yeah I can imagine at some point it must get a bit too much

[@lifeimitatingdeath3608]

Reminds me of growing up out in the country.. nostalgia sounds.

[@mindyenglish5305]

I have some actually nice memories of seceda invasions. We had one in Vegas when I was seven or eight. We hunted them and played with them. They're really cool bugs. The shells they leave behind are kind of creepy, but still cool. That one summer was probably one of the happiest and safest that I ever had growing up, so I'm sure that's part of my pleasant feelings toward them, but I don't care why. I can't wait to see them again.

[@michaelmartin1520]

Same feeling. I remember them in Vegas. Their shells were everywhere, up trees, on the jungle gym, everywhere. Also it seemed at that time, the world was more wonderful. There were all kinds of bugs and beetles. Snails and worms. Now it's a treat to see one of those green beetles flying

[@ladydiamondprisca]

I'm just staying indoors from January to December then. 😂

[@akitoyaname7897]

Ngl, i'd be absolutely hyped to go collect cicada skins. These are like one of the few bugs that don't terrify me.

[@RazorRevenge]

I’m the opposite lol. The skins freak me out. I have a core memory of a cicada getting stuck in my long hair as a child and it scarred me for life.

[@stonedgoddess420]

I collected em as a kid , and lost the container for a decade. When i found it. There was little bugs in it 🤯🤯 idk what kind , i collected dead bugs in the same container so maybe came from them lol I chucked it into the woods 🤣 which i regret now cuz it was a nice container 😭

[@SDSypher]

Those things are way too big for me to be comfortable around

[@Bobalobadoo]

​@@stonedgoddess420ngl bro I thought I was weird for that but I had a dead bug collection to lol. Happen to be a Forrest dweller?

[@stonedgoddess420]

@@Bobalobadoo a what 😅 I kept dead grasshoppers, cicadas , beetles, wasps , anything really

[@MYNAMECHEF_FilthyFrank]

They're here every year where I live and we are mostly surrounded by woods. I don't dislike them at all, it's really nice to have a cool night with a slight breeze and just listen to them. I'm sure if you weren't raised around them they could be annoying, but I am far more annoyed by the idiots revving their trucks xD

[@Iampatrix]

I'm sure the golden showers are nice as well

[@MickiBond]

​@Iampatrix 😂😂 you waxed poetic in your comment. You did a better job than I was going to do.

[@Cryinginthecloudssss]

I love cicadas I love hearing them when I’m out on my walks it gives me a sense of peace

[@DES.REVER.DESIGNS]

Math mixes with biology and every time it is awesome! We got Prime numbers show up for for cicadas and trees like acorns and apples usually Goldern ratio is in thousands of plants, and the spiral of the shells of dozens or hundreds of species of snail And so much more

[@Fairy_Teeth]

I love Cicadas personally, I always find the sound relaxing. It reminds me of childhood and running around barefoot in the summer looking for them

[@CallMeSkinny]

Me too, I lived in Texas for 3 years in high school and I remember summer nights hearing them through my cracked breezy window. It was like the night was singing, it was so peaceful and being back home in California I always wished I could hear them again.

[@NinjaSushi2]

Same! South Texas, 1986.

[@rickh3714]

In the New Zealand bush they can be so loud they hurt your ears some years.

[@anyascelticcreations]

I've always loved cicadas too. Their song used to remind me that they were there for me throughout the week. When they left for the season.

[@Fairy_Teeth]

@@rickh3714 that’s fair, I’m autistic so sometimes they gave sensory overloads sometimes

[@HistoryOnTheLoose]

Was in VA in 2004 for the last one. One of the coolest, most amazing natural events I have ever witnessed.

[@lovelydeath04]

I love cicadas!!! They're so silly and so pretty!!!

[@the7569]

I love the noises of cicadas, got to be like one of my top three most nostalgic sounds

[@kelvincoolidge995]

Always reminds me of watching my neighbor Totoro as a kid

[@UltimateEntity]

Summer time

[@MrLovolovo]

anime?

[@the7569]

@@MrLovolovo well I grew up around cicadas in real life, but yes also anime

[@anthonyn1157]

@@MrLovolovoanime and I grew up in the Deep South. 😂

[@myes6916]

I never understood getting super excited for cicadas. In Texas we have them every summer. They are known as “dog day cicadas” because they come out for the hot tests portion of summer. I love their songs though. It is the true sign summer has arrived in Texas.

[@dragonsheen3049]

Pretty much everywhere gets cicadas every year. But these guys are talking about massive broods numbering in the trillions. They completely blanket forests and neighborhoods, their song is deafening, and the smell of their bodies after they all die off is less than pleasant. They’re pretty cool, but a little obnoxious. These broods don’t come around every year and that’s why they’re a big deal.

[@lbec9487]

@@dragonsheen3049 In Texas, some years we get a similar invasion of June bugs. They completely cover the ground and walls and everywhere you walk it’s crunchy…oh and they smell too.

[@CoffeeCrazy]

@@lbec9487 oh the bug of my youth. We use to tie strings on the large June bugs and fly them like a kite. Lol kids with nothing to do get inventive lol

[@robocat2205]

Last time this happened, I remember it felt like a horror movie. Outside was just...vibrating. The noise would get deeper sometimes, it was creepy. And there were so many of them all over the walls and sidewalks!!! My outdoor cats had fun catching and eating them for a day...and then got sick and refused to eat any more. I was so glad when it was over, sweeping dead cicaidas and their shells off of my porch was a NIGHTMARE.

[@owtkast023]

When they first come out, you're screaming "SHUT UP I'M TRYING TO SLEEP!!!!" When they all die, you can't sleep again because it became the BEST white noise.

[@seoulful1997]

I remember when I lived in Chicago and was like 7 years old cicada season and having to walk over thousands of dead cicadas and hear their crunch and gut explosions

[@dirtylittledoe]

Where u now?

[@thecassandraeffectvsperilo6754]

*I was obsessed with helping cicadas as a child growing up on my family's ranch!* To this day I LuV them! I can STILL easily handle them in their winged form 💜 in Texas they REALLY start coming out of the ground in August 💜

[@spartan1010101]

Can’t compare native Cicada broods to invasive Spotted Lantern Flies at all.

[@ToxicAlien95]

I dont mind hearing them singing i find it rather relaxing 😌

[@xxDOTH3DEWxx]

Insect equivalent of a fire suppression system

[@mrmansion3660]

ive played with them for 42 years, every year i find them.

[@Bay510Area]

Fun.

[@purplecouch4767]

My old bestie and I used to collect their exoskeletons when we were little

[@fburnsDubstepEnderFox]

My cat loves chasing cicadas... too bad he can't catch one. 😂

[@Paul-mb5ns]

I was in Virginia last time this happened and one of my friends grabbed one out of the air and ate it! We also ran around with tennis rackets and smashed a bunch. We were like 12

[@d34th56]

correction, latern flies are worse

[@itmakesyouthink]

Welcome too tinnitus armageddon. 😅

[@chriswilson9331]

Actually they will probably drown out a person's tinnitus

[@r.ordinary189]

Coming to a state near you!

[@NinjaSushi2]

I love cicadas. They're the loudest animal in the kingdom to my knowledge.

[@bingchilling5137]

Here in Las Vegas, they come out every summer. i didnt know until last year that in other places they only come out occasionally.

[@joycebrewer4150]

😅 There are different species of cicadas. Some are annual emergers, others come at other intervals. Up to seventeen years as immature grubs.

[@jaytee2716]

I remember as a kid I used to think that noise they made was electricity from The power lines and wires. 😂🤦‍♂️ I found out when I was around 10 that it was a bug 😂

[@Superduper666]

I remember when 3 broods came out at once. It was horrible.

[@user-gt2lh8ip8h]

Tennessee here...we love these guys

[@eddtard2686]

Can confirm. I love cicadas.

[@emilyw842]

I sure remember them and their deafening sounds when I lived there!

[@JasonSparks-jf3me]

What are you talking about. Those things were around when I was a little kid back in the late 80s. I would remember seeing the Cocoon exoskeleton all the time. These things are nothing new Unless somehow I got transported to another dimension where they are actually new. But for me they've been around since I was a young child

[@geraldmeyers7008]

Better than stink bugs ANYDAY!!

[@cindot2520]

Cicadas sing the official song of summer!

[@AngryAlfonse]

I'm going to do the same thing I did the last time they all came out, back in 2011 or 2012 or whenever that was. I'm going to spend an entire summer locked inside my house.

[@garychief2338]

I found one molting once. It's body coming out of the shell was a beautiful pale green.

[@mashakalinkina7207]

Theyre so cute. Finding them when theyre that luna moth green color is so magical.

[@moonbladem]

The answer is peeing in the wind... 😁

[@That-Google-Guy]

This was a lot of fun to watch- I had no idea you had a shorts channel. Keep up the great work!

[@Banefulailment]

Fun fact if you pinch a cicada by its wings and throw it like a dart it will fly in a straight line and latch on to whatever it hits be sure to use this against any of your friends that are terrified of cicadas

[@FrostFall0261]

We already had it in Australia. December-February was LOUD

[@JeckH1337]

I’m so excited. The fishing is about to be insane!

[@Valor.]

Yes, but the mist in 98 degrees cooled me down to a whopping 81, and I was in heaven.

[@adventurouslife4079]

I'm stoked. Fishing this year is going to be epic.

[@Valstein0]

Cicadas are harmless and chill. I love the noise they make.

[@EUpunisher]

I always rescue these dudes out of pools when they fall in

[@FairyFrequency]

Cicadas are amazing creatures. Sending love and peaceful vibrations from the creeks and woodland of Missouri.

[@drewrenthlei2220]

"... Some prime number of years.." that's an Indian right there.

[@AvaO-od1gw]

I have 2 as a pet a male and female and they’re happy lol

[@NotWorthTheAirIBreathe]

Cicadas are my favorite insects they're so cool and the sound helps me sleep.

[@umarhonkhamidhanov6172]

I gotta start investing in chicken farms

[@genericbackgroundcharacter8431]

Sleep for 7 years Scream for 6 weeks Doesn't elaborate Goes back to sleep... What did they mean by this?

[@lauraeastman]

I think the noise is cool! I'm looking forward to it again. It makes me feel like I'm in another time and place!!! 😍💖

[@emalythhh]

I love this guy and his enthusiasm about cicadas

[@JJJJspam]

We get them every year. Just different batches.

[@dustydesertdisciple6290]

The sound of cicadas is one of my favorite sounds.

[@nancychandler768]

I love the sound of the cicadas. ❤

[@nickd3157]

So there are numerous species of cicada, im not a super nerd on them but if i understand them correctly there are about 4 main species, ones that bloom yearly, bi yearly, every ten years and every 17 years, there are more, and the life cycle is fascinating, but once they come out of the ground they are the loudest things around, i had the misfortune to be present during a double bloom, and it was horrible, my ears actually hurt, Anecdotally a “bloom” is the part of the life cycle where the cicadas emerge from the ground. So when two or more species bloom at the same time…….well flamethrowers work wonders lol

[@cuttinup9168]

A year or 2 ago in MD, they were EVERYWHERE. More than I’ve ever seen.

[@chikabel3282]

the sound of cicadas during summertime... ah, love it!

[@cheesyrichard]

I rarely hear cicadas so they’re like a nostalgic childhood sound for me

[@pelasion5099]

They say it's the craziest cicada year every year. I'm over the dramatization

[@Kentavious444]

I saw this happen in Missouri back in the late 60's. The sound is intense!

[@Silenced23]

They always looked like giant house flies to me.

[@WarThnderMudnen76]

I'm from Illinois and now live in Georgia. Cicadas have always been a part of my life. I just can't get away from the little buggers.

[@noone-wv2om]

I wonder how many cicadas are trapped under cement from construction

[@LizzyDidntDoIt]

I love Cicadas. My favorite sound

[@taidilla]

I remember when I was in 4th grade and they came to Chicago. People ate them too

[@tiffeniebright3367]

they are so heckin" cute!

[@bochapman1058]

I remember this as a kid. It’s not that bad. Everyone will be fine.

[@stardust2441]

You know it's summer in the south when the trees start screaming XD

[@BrokenNoah]

"...when the trees start screaming" Terrifying without context

[@Sara-nv1rt]

Yes me and my family lived in Woodstock GA ! For about 7 years and there were everywhere

[@stormieseason2622]

Here in South Carolina, we have two broods emerging at once. This last happened in 1803

[@animalcrosserfan]

I see a post like this every spring for the past 4 years

[@user-rh4wd3bh4p]

Really cool looking bugs and you can think this for boosting your immune system

[@rianamohamed300]

Very interesting that he said some prime number years. 13 and 17 are both prime. He must be a mathematician.

[@alpha13dylan]

I saw this when i was a child in Iowa. There were tens of thousands of cicadas and birds. I lay out in the yard and watched the bird and cicada battle in a huge swarm for hours. Then it was all gone. I cant find a record of it but i happened.

[@LadyInWhite741]

I remember them being so loud when I was a kid in New Mexico in the 90’s

[@lindamoore6163]

Any bug 🐜 that doesn’t bite or sting is ok in my book.

[@Bay510Area]

They're edible.

[@PrintScreen.]

you will eat ze bugs

[@michaelcamberdella]

I'll take YOUR word for it!

[@Bay510Area]

@@michaelcamberdella Only in the U.S., it's a problem just like carp. In S.E. Asia, it's a celebratory buffet. Lol.

[@Noone-mo4dr]

​@@Bay510Areano thank you

[@Bay510Area]

@@Noone-mo4dr YUMMILICIOUS & ABSOLUTELY NUTRITIOUS! LOL

[@CLAYMOR916]

I toyally AGREE. I learned about myself that I love nature cause of the south. I am born and raised and from California. I spent a whole summer at my bro in law and sister's house in Georgia. Let me tell you... It is its own diversity of insects, animals, and weather over there. One of my fave thing: at a small gas station stop or pop and mom shop, there's a guy who sells peanut at the back of his truck under a canopy. Miss Georgia, peachy peach.

[@romeorangel3845]

I see a lot of cicadas now

[@2brokenwings73]

We shall see if this is all they do because bugs in great number can cause havoc and even loss of life.

[@jarrettvasco7710]

I feel like growing up in Massachusetts I used to hear them every summer

[@xbrandi12345x]

Lol. Associated Press, keep this reporter. This is great stuff.

[@anitaford4138]

I can't wait for them to pop up here in Milwaukee!! I LOVE these guys!! ❤❤❤

[@andrejohnson6101]

They say they come out like every 17 years but I been hearing these every summer 😂😂😂

[@mrduck1490]

We about experience that Summer anime moment with this one.

[@battano]

I use to collect dozens at night from all over the neighborhood with a flashlight when they first dug out and put them all on a random neighbors screen door. They would wake up to a massive numbers of shells on their door...

[@user-pt1cz4ot1e]

We love our cicada friends! 🥰 Earplugs are also our friends.

[@sulaimaanahmad]

اللـه الـخـالـق

[@YeshuaIsTheTruth]

In Oklahoma we have these cute green cicadas. They're really noisy though. When I think of summer heat, I think of a deafening roar of cicada screams.