Periodical cicadas are unique insects that have a 13-year or a 17-year life cycle, most of which they spend underground. They come to the surface in groups that scientists call broods.
Each brood with its descendants is named in a Roman number. This year, Brood XIX and Brood XIII are emerging together. The last time these particular broods emerged in the same year was two centuries ago in 1803.
The unusual co-emergence has led to high numbers of cicadas in many parts of the US.
This is what they sound like…
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I took video of a bug my grandsons said was a Cicada Killer. It was killing a much larger bug of some kind last year on the Mississippi. I don’t think I have ever seen one of these before. I am guessing we will have a lot more of whatever eats Cicadas for the next year.
Looks like a huge scary wasp
Not “scary” looking in the least. They’re quite docile and crawl slowly if at all. They’re one of the most interesting bugs you’ll witness in nature.
actually could ‘feel’ the impact. With the weed-eater string.
Klouse Shwaab and USSA friends over at USDA are licking their lips and salivating over the prospects of bumper harvests of New World Order protein, serfs.
I’ve seen where the WEF has referred to crickets as “micro-livestock”.
I remember back in the 90’s there was a large swarm and the German Shepherd we had really enjoyed stalking and eating them; it was fun feeding them to her.
Article in my local rag:
“Have you ever thought about making cicada scampi? Here’s how…”
https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/05/20/making-cicada-scampi/
Blasphemy.
yes, folks, this does happen over and over again. not the end of the world.
birds of all kinds love to chow down on ’em, too.
True… cool little bugs, harmless and quiet amazing life cycle.
Quite.. not quiet
Definitely not quiet in any fashion.
A video about the noise made by bugs with so much background music you hear nothing. BRILLIANT SYNOPSIS OF PROPAGANDA AMERIKA.
Plague of locusts with heads of men=Immigrants from ‘alien’ cultures.
A cicada cacophony is roughly what my tinnitus sounds like, except my tinnitus is higher pitched.
Indeed. Pussies don’t know when they’ve got it good, do they?! 4 years on the flight deck of the USS America CV-66 and a lifetime of shooting with no hearing protection because “it validated my manliness to my peers” -(At least I know I’ll never flinch from recoil!). But I still hear everything I need to, as I’m sure you do as well.
Consider it another badge of honor. Crank it up to 11. It’s Memorial Day weekend.
The 13 yr. brood is all over the SC Midlands, not just Aiken County (next to Augusta GA).
They say this every damn year in SW Virginia. They are harmless.
A single dead one somehow appeared at the Northbrook train station of all places. It wasn’t smushed. No big noise yet.
If niggers could only reproduce every 17 years – we would be better off.