Speaking of creepy, if your cat sneaks outside, it may well discover a new favorite crunchy snack food this summer...really...

@youdontknowme5969

27 күн бұрын

We had a cat that would "play soccer" with them (slap them around) in the patio and driveway. Absolutely hilarious!

@rainbowwwkim

27 күн бұрын

Mine ran inside with a cicada screaming in her mouth once, and ate one another time. So yeah, cats are gremlins.

@katharine5606

27 күн бұрын

One of my indoor cats found a cicada that had probably hitched a ride on one of us, as they’re known to do (kinda ick) and was having fun batting it around on the kitchen floor when I came upon the scene. I felt bad and took the cicada back outside.

@ferretyluv

27 күн бұрын

It’s perfectly fine for them to eat. It’s nice lean protein (unless your cat has kidney disease and is on a low protein diet, then it’s bad).

@uncletoby-

27 күн бұрын

Arthur will enjoy them too !

Their singing is temperature driven. In particular, they need warm nights and blisteringly hot days for inspiration. Still a bit early for the big noise, but it will come soon enough. Just remember they can't hurt you, but you can hurt yourself trying to get away from them. They don't fly well at all, and are extremely clumsy in the air, causing them to ram into various objects at full speed. Okay, it does kind of sting when they hit you on bare skin, but it isn't intentional, and they have no venom or biting mouth parts.

@RogerRamjet156

27 күн бұрын

They don't sting

@Baked_Ziti

27 күн бұрын

@@RogerRamjet156I think he was talking about the pain associated with running into one on accident, not that it actually has a stinger

@RogerRamjet156

27 күн бұрын

@@Baked_Ziti You're probably right - I just despise anything that stings. Jellyfish, mosquitoes, horse flies... at least bees are productive usually don't sting unless provoked. Thanks!

@HuckleberryHim

27 күн бұрын

​@@RogerRamjet156 Mosquitoes and horseflies don't sting, they bite. In both mosquitoes and horseflies only the females drink blood anyway, for egg development. Some mosquito species don't drink blood at all.

@richidraykat

26 күн бұрын

Cockchafer are the same

I think his puppy will realize soon how great a snack cicadas make :D

A cicada got in my car without me noticing today. It was silent for the first 30 minutes and then screamed right next to my head! I was so startled! Thankfully I didn’t crash. I had to pull over to get it out of my car.

@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley

27 күн бұрын

It thought you were its Uber driver and just wanted to give you directions 😂

@user-hr3tx6uu9o

27 күн бұрын

That's scary!

@Jody-kt9ev

27 күн бұрын

I had a red wasp get in my car once. These are much worse than cicadas. They have a really nasty sting.

@user-hr3tx6uu9o

26 күн бұрын

@@Jody-kt9ev I would have pulled over somewhere and gotten out of my car! Scary!

@Jody-kt9ev

26 күн бұрын

@@user-hr3tx6uu9o I pulled over and got the wasp out. Did not get stung that day.

2 videos in one day? We've been blessed

@jmcg6189

27 күн бұрын

And one yesterday?

@ElizabethNicoleSchwartz

27 күн бұрын

@@jmcg6189 yes! So many close together.

@Blondie42

27 күн бұрын

Was just about to comment this myself

@alexs5744

27 күн бұрын

Well I’d say I’d say we are boah.

@GhostNinja0007

27 күн бұрын

Honestly🤣😭

Cicadas are so loud here in Missouri that it might be above the safe decibel limit

@marymcfarlane5108

27 күн бұрын

Same in Nova Scotia Canada. It’s a HORRIBLE sound and bloody deafening. It sounds like something electronically generated.

@angiebee2225

23 күн бұрын

Seriously. I came home one day, after hearing them for 30 miles along the sides of I-44--yes, I heard them over my radio and over road noise--and declared to my husband (when I dodged the cicadas bumbling their way across the driveway and finally got inside) that I was going to call the police and register a noise complaint and ask the police to arrest them and take them all to jail.

The cicada buzz is one of my favorite sounds of summer.

@emmitstewart1921

27 күн бұрын

According to some tales, the cicadas start sing ten weeks before the first frost.

@ferretyluv

27 күн бұрын

Finally, someone with the correct opinion! There’s a reason anime uses it as a cue that the scene takes place during the dog days of summer.

@Dangic23

27 күн бұрын

Especially if you live in Japan. Brings anime to real life.

@pacmon5285

27 күн бұрын

There's a difference between some noise from cicada and the extremely loud and pervasive sound during a 17 year hatching. It gets tiring.

@colinedmunds2238

27 күн бұрын

It's not summer until you hear the cicadas

It's early days yet. Give them a week and they'll dry out, get to the upper branches, and sing, sing, sing! Visiting a forest preserve or the Brookfield Zoo is highly recommended.

@russb24

24 күн бұрын

Where I grew up in southern Pennsylvania, they would really rev up in August, and my Mom would use the sound to taunt me, saying it meant that school would start soon.

They aren't just cicadas, they are magicicadas! I had one in my car this morning. Never did find it, but every time I went over a bump it complained about my driving

@HermanVonPetri

27 күн бұрын

I'd be a nervous wreck. Well, _hopefully_ not a wreck. That's what I'd be nervous about having if I knew one of them was perched somewhere behind me while I was trying to drive. It's cute though that now when I hear them I'll think about them complaining to each other.

@colleenforrest7936

27 күн бұрын

@@HermanVonPetri They don't fly much and aren't really afraid of anything. Hence, when a foot comes down, they don't fly away and they squish. So I wasn't worried about it suddenly taking wing and flying at me. They are awkward flyers, like their body is just a little too heavy for their wings.

@camwinston5248

27 күн бұрын

Now that's funny ! 🤣🤣🤣

@marshawargo7238

27 күн бұрын

Perhaps we we are in the midst of witnessing evolution? How many years have we not really needed our appendix yet we still need a Dr to remove it? When will it evolve into a new organ that we could use? Like a second heart for when we kill off the original with our eating & other bad choices! Or a sturdier pancreas to annihilate diabetes? Maybe a 3rd growth of teeth, for the magnitude of kids who lied to their parents when asked "Did you brush your teeth?" 😂😮😢 The cicada are perhaps in the process of getting rid of the wings that they no longer need😮???

@colleenforrest7936

27 күн бұрын

@@marshawargo7238 Love it! Just to clarify though, cicadas don't have wings under ground. They go into a sort of chrysalis state when they crawl out of the ground, and then they crawl outside of that shell and then they have wings. Kind of like caterpillar/butterfly sort of thing but technically different :)

We live in Tennessee and our dogs and cats loved to be outside in cicada season... they would watch for them, race for them, to be the first to eat them. Poor bugs didn't stand a chance, but the pets were highly entertaining for a while.

@atticstattic

27 күн бұрын

That's why the strategy is numbers

@CasbahD

27 күн бұрын

Fishing is great too. Bobber with a cicada on the hook.

@OllamhDrab

27 күн бұрын

They can get quite cacophonous even if it isn't a rare emergence of broods at the same time. :)

@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley

27 күн бұрын

​@@CasbahDWish my brothers and I had been more creative with how to obtain our fish bait as kids. We just waited for a rainy day, then dug up worms. But if you have never put a worm on a hook...don't. It's very bloody and absolutely stinks. But the worms were free, so...that's why 😅. But yes, a cicada sounds way easier to deal with.

@gloriatg100

27 күн бұрын

And well fed

i'm in tennessee and seeing the 13 year brood here for the second time. i love the cicadas, for some reason with their giant red eyes and their bumbling flight and behaviour they come off as cute to me. they're almost all gone now. i read that cicadas generally only travel 100 meters of where they emerged, and that seemed a little sad to me, stay down there that long and so little time up here and you don't see hardly anything? so i decided to become a travel agent for cicadas, i would pick them up and they would climb around my hand and my arm as i pushed the empty big wheeled cart through the warehouse from the trash compactor all the way probably about 300 meters away to a big tree out front with lots of new friends. i also try to help them right themselves when they fall on their sides and start buzzing in distress, they're just too dumb to be good at anything except being loud, bless their hearts. many times they'll crawl right on your hand if offered and happily just hang out with you for awhile. i'll miss them. i hope i'm here in 2037 to see them come back again. or at least i end up somewhere i get to see the magicicadas again!

@samedmundson6470

27 күн бұрын

They are like harmless drunk bumble bees. 😁

@spacehonky6315

27 күн бұрын

Well, if you ain't here in 2037, they'll probably dig their way up and wave when you're six feet under😉. You'll still probably be able to hear them in the afterlife. Dang things are so loud! I'm surprised that the ones in Chicago (in Laurence's yard anyway) apparently don't make any noise.

@Polopony20.

27 күн бұрын

​@@spacehonky6315They're likely still too young! Their wings need to dry out before they get noisy

@Mick_Ts_Chick

26 күн бұрын

We used to go to Texas a lot when I was young since my mom's from there. I remember my cousin and I used to play with them when they came out.

Hilarious you said they don't need their wings as cicadas fly past you in the background! Good one!

Cicadas are a favorite food of many animals, including copperhead and cottonmouth snakes, which 1. are venomous and 2. love to climb bushes and trees in cicada season looking for freshly emerged cicadas. So when cicadas are emerging, beware of low hanging snakes.

@sherryjoiner396

27 күн бұрын

Thank you for mentioning this!

@creative2716

24 күн бұрын

OMG

@Beth_Alice_Kaplan

23 күн бұрын

Not a sentence I thought I’d read today.

@Beth_Alice_Kaplan

23 күн бұрын

Actually, during our brood emergence in the Mid-Atlantic, we ended up with rats, and I kept expecting snakes (we do have copperheads, but also the eastern rat snake, which is super common)…but nothing. Not even a garter snake, and I saw those in the city!

@renastone9355

10 күн бұрын

Yet another reason to be happy that there are no cicadas here in Southern California - although, come to think of it, there aren't any copperhead or cottonmouth snakes, either. (We do have rattlers, but I don't think those ever climb trees....)

The largest insect swarm on earth. They start emerging when the ground reaches a certain temperature. They can reach industrial construction levels of noise, and rarely, cause deafness. They are also edible.

@garryferrington811

27 күн бұрын

Well, you're going to saving on food bills for a while. 🪳

@sailorellie9133

23 күн бұрын

While they’re edible, if you’re allergic to shellfish, stay away from eating cicadas! (And a lot of other bugs) I love cicadas; they’re such interesting creatures

As kids we always stuck the exoskeletons on our shirts. The feet stick like velcro. Very attractive decorations.

Edge, Christian and Gangrel... I wasn't paying close enough attention and certainly not expecting that reference. Had to back it up to see why my brain was thinking it heard those names. ahhh, The Brood. Nice.

I live in the territory of Brood X Cicadas, and I’ve lived through their emergences a few times. It’s deafening, and overwhelming.

The annual cicadas are species that emerge every year. Though these cicadas' life cycles can vary from 1 to 9 or more years as underground nymphs, their emergence above ground as adults is not synchronized, so some members of each species appear every year.

I'm in MIssouri, and the noise from the cicadas is deafening.

dam 2 videos so close togather,what a treat

2 kinds of cicadas are here at same time. It will be 221 years again when it happens

@leanndilorenzo4687

14 күн бұрын

which makes me happy as it was down right loud and gross at my house for a couple weeks. It was like having a bad ringing in the ears for DAYSSSSS and the dead bodies were like a crunchy carpet.

@essencebostic

10 күн бұрын

But I'm 33 and they were just here a few years ago. So.... you telling me I'm really 400 years old?

They came out the year I graduated high school in Cincy in 87. They were flying around Music Hall where the ceremony was held. The last time they came, I drove from Indy to Cincy. On I-71 going toward Kings Island around Fields-Ertel, there were so many while I drove at 70mph, with the windows up, and the AC and music on that I COULD STILL HEAR THEM! Billions and billions of them.

@vespista1971

27 күн бұрын

I was a sophomore that year, but I remember it well, like the last week or two of school, our whole building in Walnut Hills was so covered with them that in many places you couldn’t see the wall anymore. I feel like neither of the two emergences since then were quite as intense as that one was.

@vespista1971

27 күн бұрын

@@cshubs I went to St. Ursula.

@benmaharaj6854

26 күн бұрын

That 87 emergence was something special. I was younger than you and amazed at the noise and many there were.

@darth-hellhound6534

25 күн бұрын

I was in Reading in... 2004? When we had a big brood and my stepdad had us catch us a bunch to cook and use as bait. I never did eat any, which was probably good as all my cousins ended up puking later

@cshubs

25 күн бұрын

@@darth-hellhound6534 2004 sounds right.

The cicadas have been singing constantly where I live in the western suburbs. I was working with my dad in the back yard, and the singing was so loud we had to shout to each other from 6 feet away

The noise has definitely picked up in Bolingbrook. Every time I leave my house, it's like the outdoors are screaming at me.

@be6715

27 күн бұрын

It's interesting though that they quiet at night and during rain. Very polite of them, I think.

@andreabryant9979

27 күн бұрын

Just wait till July & August, they’re ear piercing. The hotter it gets the higher pitch & louder they get. 🥵

@cynthiat6505

27 күн бұрын

Lived in Bolingbrook from 1976 to 1989. Just missed them there, but experienced them in Westchester.

@RRaquello

27 күн бұрын

@@andreabryant9979 Where I live (NY) they were usually gone by early July. Maybe in warmer areas they stick around longer. I remember them being out from late May to around July 4th, and even then they were on the wane.

@andreabryant9979

26 күн бұрын

@@RRaquello Reading more about them, there are different broods, 13 years, 17 years & yearly. Anyway, I live on the northern Gulf Coast off a Bayou, 4 miles north of the Gulf. We only get the yearly ones.

I love cicadas! They're harmless and adorable, so don't be afraid to let one crawl on your hand. My first brood came when I was four so just looking at them makes me a bit nostalgic.

@annep.1905

4 күн бұрын

I actually know someone who got a nasty cut from a cicada. They're mostly harmless unless they decide you are a tree.

They've been emerging for a couple weeks now here in Missouri. I've got a fair amount of trees out where I live, decently far away from larger cities, and nearly every branch has at least one cicada on it. The noise when the sun is out is properly deafening, standing on the driveway for extended periods is actually painful. Plus when one starts flying, a good portion of the rest of them do too, so you just have this buzzing cloud of sky raisins floating from tree top to tree top.

As someone who has been dealing with the 13-year brood XIX for the past four weeks, and is OVERJOYED that the noise is finally winding down, can I just say you're in for a real treat! (Other than the noise, the cicadas were fun to have around. The noise just bothered me because I'm an audiobook narrator, whose job depends on their being a certain level of silence in the nearby world. The cicada chorus was therefore rather unhelpful in that regard. Thankfully, they do take a break from dusk to dawn, so I was still able to work, but unfortunately with less than an ideal amount of sleep. I'm sure and your videos will TOTALLY fine though! No sound issues whatsoever.

I lived in Chitown the last time they emerged and it was kinda creepy driving through swarms of them. 😲A cicada-encrusted windshield is a rare and unforgettable horror.

My tinnitus sounds just like a million cicadas and I'm in a sound proof room! Uff!

@LisaKnobel

27 күн бұрын

I was just thinking how mine sounds like them too.

Cicada song has been a part of summer my whole life. Like living next to the railroad tracks, eventually you can just tune it out. Until you want to listen to them that is.

@StoneE4

27 күн бұрын

Yearly cicadas and periodic cicadas don't produce the same sound - at least they don't collectively. Yearly cicadas make a pleasant background sound while periodic cicadas come out in the -millions- billions all at once and create a cacophony. I don't mind the sound but I can see how others would get freaked out or annoyed by it... That many cicadas produces an eerie, trill sound that is immensely different from the collective sound of the yearly cicadas.

@andreabryant9979

27 күн бұрын

July & August can be ear piercing. The hotter it gets the higher pitch & louder they get. 🥵

@windycityliz7711

27 күн бұрын

Depends on how dense they are. I remember one in the early 90's in Wisconsin that was so loud my dog wouldn't even go in the woods with me, and it was "Alien" creepy.

@mr.b3168

26 күн бұрын

These aren't the same. We get those too.

I'm happy that your dog is not interested in the Cicadas. I live in Maryland and we had Cicadas a few years ago and the dogs in the neighborhood ate so many Cicadas that some dogs needed to visit the vet. They over ate the Cicadas and needed medical attention.

@Amy0223B

27 күн бұрын

I was going to comment that they will make dogs very sick if they eat them.

Cicadas are the loveliest hum of summertime. It's not summer until I've sat down and enjoyed its beauty.

@StoneE4

27 күн бұрын

The sound of periodic cicadas and yearly cicadas aren't even comparable with one another.

@mr.b3168

26 күн бұрын

Not the same as the brood ones. We know about the annual ones.

I lived in Virginia in 1990, i believe a year that brood was out. We lived in a fairly wooded area and the sound was deafening and overwhelming. They were absolutely everywhere. I was a young teen so of course I was greatly impressed. I remember doing the math and being weirded out by how old I'd be when they returned, but I was no longer living there when that came around, again. Felt a bit nostalgiac hearing the news stories on them. A gonzo, magic summer. Summer of the weird.

The truly freaky thing about periodic Cicadas is that from variety to variety, their periods are Prime Numbers. I don't think we have periodic Cicadas in SW Ontario, but we have a regular type. They start in the first week of July, usually. It's one of the sounds of summer.

You'll also find it massively fun when you're driving around and one comes flying through your window and hits you on the shoulder

I remember the 1990 cicadas in the Chicago burbs. That was insane. You couldn't walk without crushing one. Or two. Or more. I saw everything about cicadas that year. Everything. Ever since, I've been underwhelmed by the emergence of other broods.

Ugh...tree shrimp. Growing up near a forest in Southern Indiana, the evenings sounded like an airplane hangar when the cicadas were active!

@ferretyluv

27 күн бұрын

You say that like it’s a bad thing! I miss the sounds of cicadas.

@-Devy-

25 күн бұрын

@@ferretyluv And some people enjoy getting kicked in the nuts, doesn't mean that that's a generally enjoyable experience.

@angiebee2225

23 күн бұрын

@@ferretyluv The annual ones aren't bad. The periodic ones are SO LOUD.

In AL they have already spawned and finished there are only a handful of late bloomers left. At their height it sounded like the spaceships from the original War of The worlds, it was so loud it was maddening.

If you want to do something fun with the husk of the cicada, take a hotglue gun and slowly fill it up, let it cool off, then rub the shell away from the glue and you'll have a figure of the cicada but for the legs.

It is also the year for the 13 year cicada. Very rare when both come out at the same time.

@ferretyluv

27 күн бұрын

They’re only emerging at the same time in a couple counties.

@paulgreen9059

27 күн бұрын

I've read that between all the 13 year broods and the 17 year broods, it happens every six years or so.

@StoneE4

27 күн бұрын

@@paulgreen9059 _"I've read that between all the 13 year broods and the 17 year broods, it happens every six years or so."_ What? 🤨

@paulgreen9059

27 күн бұрын

@@StoneE4 OK, I did the math. There are 3 extant broods of 13 year cicadas (each brood emerges in a different year). The 17 year cicadas exist within 12 broods. That gives 36 double emergence years in a 221 year period, or a double emergence every 6.14 years (on average).

@StoneE4

27 күн бұрын

@@paulgreen9059 Redo your math for 13 year and 17 year cicada broods that have overlapping and/or adjacent territories. That is what is being discussed here.

I live in Texas and Cicadas are a yearly thing here. Literally harmless, as the most they can do is mistake you for a tree (their eyesight sucks) but that doesn't stop their buzzing from scaring the crap out of me. Or them playing dead constantly.

They are now gone where I live near Joliet Illinois. The sound they made every day was absolutely amazing and will miss it!

I love watching people talk about Cicadas where they only get them once every X years. We get them every year here. Storm season just ended a week or 2 ago, so it shouldn’t be long before I can hear the sound of summer

I live in southern Illinois they get louder than a train passing. Its awesome to try to sleep through and hold a ok volumed conversation inside.

2:21 please include more references like this, it pleased me.

It is truly a surreal experience. Not just the coverage of these things everywhere, but the unbelievable noise they make together. It is like being in the twilight zone, with perfectly tuned natural frequency to your ears. The ears are ready to shake apart since it all seems to match! It is so odd and something to experience. Ours were in 2021. So glad my son got to experience it at a reasonable age. It freaked him out though, the noise and the swarm….now he knows and hates it! LOL

I loved finding the husks as a kid and the sound is just the sound of summer to me.

That was us here in Maryland 3 years ago. I couldn’t go into the backyard for more than a minute and come back out without my ears ringing. The sound of a billion cicadas at once!

I loved looking for cicada shells when I was a kid. They were both cool and creepy.

Just wait until you reach the peak. Missouri and southern Illinois are about three weeks ahead of northern Illinois in this process. They emerged here in late April and three weeks later (mid-May) they were in the trees by the millions and ready for some action. The full sound, especially if you live near a wooded area, is almost deafening. We could hear the massive buzzing sound through the house. When I mowed the lawn I put my ear pods in noise canceling mode and could still hear them clearly despite the headphones and above the sound of the mower. A local news story demonstrated how the outdoor sound level is at a decibel level that can cause hearing loss after 30 minutes of exposure. And they get everywhere. In the car, in the garage, in the house ( they love to hitch rides on your clothes). Especially on hot, sunny days. That is when they are most active. At first it was creepy. But now I’m used to it. They’re finally starting to die off and thin out here. Looking forward to not dodging them anymore on my morning walks. And I won’t miss the smell.

@lordofthemound3890

22 күн бұрын

I’m in Sangamon County, IL. They started singing in just the southern part of the county about a week ago.

If the noise hasn't started yet you're in for a treat! 😄 I drove to house 2 for my regular check and when I woke up the next morning, I was wondering what that whirring machine was outside. Then I went out and said "Ohhhhhh!!" Bugs flying everywhere! Holes in the ground, dead bodies on the ground, husks everywhere! I was thrilled! I thought I wasn't going see/hear them. I am in that lone blue county in VA--brood IX, 13 yr cicadas. Got lots of cool videos. Enjoy!

*Next time Lawrence, pick one up, it's a weird experience but it's the safest you can be with a large bug.* It's literally incapable of biting or stinging you and they are generally pretty chill. Your dog will eat them eventually which isn't too bad, just don't let him eat too many because the wings can clog up his intestines if not chewed thoroughly. *Local pizzerias might offer cicada pizza when they fully emerge - that could make a fun video.*

As a kid when I lived nearby Berwyn and I was in 4rd grade around 1968. The cicadas were so horrible while walking home that under any trees along the the sidewalk there was no way not to crush them as I would walk along. The sound was deafening. In fact, at that time I recall putting two of them on either sides of my ears like headphones. To get a Stereo effect of cicadas, I thought. At that time I learned that if you squeeze them near there wing temples they would omit a more robust sound. I had no idea that they looking for a mate. I appreciate the brood listing given i your commentary and will need to look up more upon this. I currently live in the city of Aurora IL. In twenty years of living here, the cicadas have multiplied from a whisper to a shout. Not sure where in the Chicago region you’re in. I do recall 15 years ago working in Hinsdale and being in a lower level basin around Golfview Hills that the sound was so enormous, I had to phone my supervisor to let him know I couldn’t do my work. It was insanely loud. I also appreciate all the previous work you folks have done. Have shared you’re episodes to family since I sincerely find those both educational and interesting. I’ve never done a deep dive into other families such as mine. You might be interested in. Misspelled indentured servitude Norman English last names but you might want to look up Debra Sampson. She was spotlighted on drunken history. Best line in that episode was the repeated line of “Bobby, are you okay?” Which the term of O’kay had not been founded by that time. In my time, being the youngest family member it was all too common asked about me by my family members. Always looking forward to your next addition. Thanks

Cicadas? Oh, you’re going to LOVE them!

I actually developed ringing in my ears from the massive amounts of cicadas and the noise they produced. (I have over 300 cicada holes in my yard. I live in the country in east Tennessee on 5 acres.). They have quieted down over the last week. It's a relief.

I love the cicadas very much. Greetings from Tennessee

The noise in my backyard has been glorious! we can hear them all over the house with the windows closed. Don't worry--they're quiet at night.

@TweetyPAK7

24 күн бұрын

Yes!!

I remember when I was in the Army back in 1998 in Alabama, and the same Brood 19 that emerged this year also emerged then. I remember those things being very loud. I remember being stopped in traffic on I-65 near Montgomery and being able to hear them buzzing over the highway traffic.

I survived a brood emergence in Dayton, OH several years back. It's weird, for sure, and they'll be EVERYWHERE. But it's really an amazing phenomenon. And the constant buzzing sound will be amazing.

I was walking in the woods during one of their swarms. Probably a few thousand around me at least. The sound made my skin crawl. Once they come out, try that to get the full effect of them

The New Forest cicada (oddly the species name is Cicadetta montana) you mentioned near Hampshire is also found in other parts of Europe, but they're critically endangered. They've been thought to be extinct in some areas but scientists are working to bring their numbers back.

The uninterrupted, pulsing, communal hum is what will drive one crazy!!

Maybe in your next segment you could talk about the rare blue-eyed cicada, if you find one. They are about, literally, one in a million. Good luck in your quest!

They are hard to keep on a fish hook but Fish love 'em!

Cicada are neat critters. They're good at dive bombing campers at night if they're inattentive. I used to collect their shells as a kid. The sounds they make used to be exceptionally common. With the rise in urban growth, it's becoming harder to see or hear them these days.

@jaimeeshivers5001

27 күн бұрын

Got dive bombed outside work last night and felt like I was a kid camping again lol. lil buggers.

@happyburger23

27 күн бұрын

Was able to hear them while driving on I-24 thru Chattanooga a couple weeks ago and on 95/695 in MD back when Brood X was "in bloom"

@chrisdufresne9359

27 күн бұрын

@@happyburger23 I envy that. The area around my house went from farmland to being a housing development and an industrial warehouse.

@nljf1022

27 күн бұрын

I’m fortunate to have both my front and back lawns dug up. As digging up a yard kills the burrowed cicadas, I haven’t seen a cicada in 28 years!

@chrisdufresne9359

27 күн бұрын

@@nljf1022 That sounds sad

At an early age in the 1970's Georgia, I thought that Cicadas skins should be collected in a full shoe box. The skins were interesting and like other insects could be pined and displayed. I learned that wasn't a good idea and found out a few days later those skins decayed into a smelly mess. I did store them outside in our storage barn, so luckily they didn't affect my parents or the house, both of which would be disastrous.

@aLadNamedNathan

27 күн бұрын

The first cicada emergence in my lifetime happened when I was 3, and the second happened when I was 20, so I missed the joy of being the right age to indulge in and enjoy such things.

Ooooh Lawrence. The Noise they make. Will brake ur brain

I was in Lilacia Park in Lombard, Illinois today and the number of cicadas was crazy. The buzzing hum was incredibly loud. But i didn't have any dive bombing my head

I love listening to cicadas!

I love them!!! They are like drunk huge stingless bumblebees. I am in central Illinois (😢) and bc we have no mature trees, so i have to go to a park to hear them. Which I do as much as I can while they're here.

Hearing cicadas lets me know summer is here. As kids, we would look to see who could find the most husks on the trees in the neighborhood.

Really surprised you haven't experienced the noise. It is incessant here a bit farther south. I remember a guy who worked outside all the time, during the last emergence 13 years ago, couldn't stand to be outside with that racket going on incessantly. For me, it's reassuring to know we haven't lost so many trees that we can't hear it anymore. The cicadas live!

I moved to Tokyo last August and the sound of the cicadas was as dreamy as it can be.

@lauryl4062

22 күн бұрын

Always reminds me of Neon Genesis Evangelion.

The Brood Gangrel, Edge, and Christian….😂 Hey, I love the wrestling innuendos!

I live in SE Wisconsin, just north of Chicago, and I haven't seen any crawling around yet. We did have some come up a few years ago, I found one on our driveway. It must have been a different brood or a different species. It's always fun when the headlines are like "Cicada Invasion After 17 years!" when it happens almost every year in various places around the United States.

We’re just finishing up with the 13 year cicadas in middle Tennessee. A lot of them could be seen congregating around our side entrance at work on the concrete. So I have been going in the front entrance. They do get very noisy, so have fun with that.

Your cicadas look so different from ours in Oklahoma City. We had some last year that look as if they were wearing camo! Not kidding...little military cicadas.

The birds must love it! ❤

Fun fact: Cicadas spend their whole lives feeding on tree sap underground. When they emerge and metamorphose into adults, they don't have working mouths. So they have about two weeks to mate and lay eggs before they either starve to death or get eaten. I experienced the Brood X emergence when visiting my daughter in Maryland three years ago. The noise was incredible. If you've ever seen the movie "Them!", you've heard cicadas as that's what was used for the ants calling. Also, many animals (including dogs) find cicadas delicious. It's said they taste like shrimp. The whole point of the mass emergence is to ensure that enough cicadas don't get eaten that they can reproduce. I imagine they co-evolved with birds like passenger pigeons and Carolina parakeets that used to blanket the sky themselves. We hunted those birds into extinction but nobody told the cicadas.

You need to come out to the suburbs-central DuPage County has lots!

The sound of summer!

The best Cicada story is that internet treasure hunt.

WHA?! We got a WWE Brood mention @ 2:22??? Amazing Lawrence!

I love the cicadas!

Cicadas usher in every summer here in the Texas Gulf Coast region. Pretty cool & relaxing to hear them, especially in the afternoon /early evening. Impressive creatures.

I grew up on the West Coast so had never experienced cicadas until a family trip to the Midwest. It must have been a 17th year that summer because the sound was absolutely deafening.

@angiebee2225

23 күн бұрын

Even the annual ones can be pretty bad to the uninitiated. The 13 year brood we have where I live was something else.

I visited my grandmother in Waco TX, 1974. I'll never forget how much noise the cicadas made.

You should do a video on mayflies. Those come up every year in huge numbers by lakes and some rivers. They’re so thick at time that people have to turn off lights near the water to keep them from forming piles so thick they need to be shoveled away.

@ferretyluv

27 күн бұрын

Fun fact: mayflies only show up around healthy bodies of water. They’re very sensitive to pollution.

@cate9540

27 күн бұрын

We are inundated with them here in Michigan. Even if you are several miles from a lake, you can find them swarming your porch lights.

@Cricket2731

27 күн бұрын

Mayflies are hatching on the western end of Lake Erie. They'll even show up on weather radar!

Ours started bout 6 weeks ago, North West Alabama, and are finally tapering off. I can't tell you how many times I'd go into the house just to brush one off my shoulder several minutes later!

Yes, 😃cicadas live in Utah, including in Southern Utah. Crepitating cicadas, which make a trilling clicking sound to attract mates, can be heard in the Great Basin. Cicadas spend months or years underground as nymphs before emerging simultaneously to climb trees and leave behind empty husks. They only spend a few months above ground before laying eggs and dying, allowing the cycle to repeat.

"And then they just get out of it somehow "😂😂😂😂 Baby im from North Carolina ani ive heard them with my ears but i have never went to investigate them😅😂😂😂😂😂 I love you

We always called them Jar Flies. The wings you find on the ground are usually pulled off by birds (so they can eat them). My brother told me that they make good fish bait. They have been living on the roots of trees for 17 years.

I got photos of one next to his exoskeleton a few years ago (evidently it didn't know the year). Thanks to a concussion, I hear them via ringing in my ears constantly.

Oooooooo, Lawrence! That’s a lot of videos you put out this week.

Far western Chicago suburbs here, our cicadas started coming out almost 2 weeks ago. One of the first I encountered introduced itself by clinging to my glasses. I've got cicada shells all over my garden (I've heard those are good fertilizer). For us, it's just about over. It wasn't so bad this year compared to other years. But that may be due to the fact that all the old trees in our yard are gone. I could hear the noisy suckers in the neighbor's trees, rather loudly. The noise is pretty much gone now.

I have family in Downers Grove. I hear lots of odd stories from them about these little creatures. Thanks for the video update!

imagine driving to work and your windshield is nearly opaque from dead cicadas.. I do have a badass picture of a jumping spider with a cicada in his little mouth, it's awesome.

@natashaw401

8 күн бұрын

Yuk

Have you ever looked up the American man who brought jazz you Europe during WW1, who's last name is literally "Europe"? James Reese Europe. During their time there on deployment the division band played Jazz for Europeans. He was member of the legendary Harlem Hellfighter. They were an all black who fought in WW1 an earned the gratitude and love of the allies, there are even monuments to them commemorating them in Europe to this day. They were known by a couple of names, the Men of Bronze, the Copper rattlers and of course the one their enemies, the Germans gave them out of both fear and respect, the Hellfighter. Its a super interesting story that is sometimes taught here in school in the US during black history month. I learned about it through Extra Credits who did a good video on them.

My dog loves digging up cicadas to eat them. She can hear them on the way up and gets so excited when it is cicada time.

One of your funniest videos yet.