"They can't stop all of us" -Cicadas Every 17 years.

@ericl.9913

4 жыл бұрын

Came here for that comment!

@ablazozo6303

4 жыл бұрын

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@wombat.6652

4 жыл бұрын

That is basically their strategy. Overwhelm the odds of survival.

@dpssaboteur3799

4 жыл бұрын

@@ablazozo6303 sry I dont speak bomb wires

@professionaltaxevader4638

4 жыл бұрын

@@ablazozo6303 Damn, that´s deep

Imagine spending 17 years of your life growing, maturing, and just waiting underground and when you finally emerge, you're eaten

@coast3087

6 жыл бұрын

We do 17 years with parents then when your 18 your eatin by work bills responsibility ect.

@lumbermcray5097

5 жыл бұрын

It's nature

@coast3087

5 жыл бұрын

@@MechaLeo ?

@fajia3479

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like war

@timcross2510

5 жыл бұрын

See WWI and WW2 for best human analogy. ..

“This is a feast they’re lucky to once in a lifetime” Some of the turtles in the forest: nope, this is my 4th time.

@Ch9-7708

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@bijaylakhaju8774

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@TheAirBear2000

3 жыл бұрын

Insert that "First time?" meme.

@craftykit2242

3 жыл бұрын

Letting the days go by…

@rewardx

2 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHAHAAHHAHA

Wasps: We have stingers to defend our home. Moths: We can camouflage ourselves against the trees. Cicadas: Hey, they can't eat _all_ of us.

@firingallcylinders2949

3 жыл бұрын

Cicadas together strong

@Jazz5777

Жыл бұрын

Ready guys? Send that wave, they seem to have all the answers, they stop at no law or ethic to have their way, which is horrible, and suicide for us. Let em go first. Tell those democrats that that the forest is burning up dry and stop it by making a bunch of noise while cooling the air with thousands of beating wings . Then the rest can go up , be fruitful, and multiply

@fellipedasilva99

Жыл бұрын

Lol basically, this specific species has strength in sheer numbers. Because other cicada species fly away very quickly when they feel threatened.

@theprophet2444

Жыл бұрын

It's sad in a way, if they don't get eaten within about 3 days or so, they just die anyway, well that's a better death and they can still get eaten afterwards I guess...

@ketfoen

2 ай бұрын

Turtle in the pond, hold my beer.

Man to all those animals, it's like BILLIONS of snickers bars just flying around out of nowhere without a good explanation.

@Pedro-lp2kj

4 жыл бұрын

hahahaa

@nafarispeaks2135

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 I’m weak

@joeyanderson2612

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@TeamGodzilla-dw9on

4 жыл бұрын

Healthy burgers not snicker bars.

@DnVFMVs

4 жыл бұрын

It would be like paradise for Murica

Cicada pro tip: always arrive late to the party

@jmp01a24

4 жыл бұрын

Then their predators are full and sick of eating them.

@Captain_Pricey

4 жыл бұрын

Right on time actually. Right on time for 2020’s peak of disaster.

@jmp01a24

4 жыл бұрын

@@Captain_Pricey Right on the mo ney!

@ablazozo6303

4 жыл бұрын

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@g0ast

4 жыл бұрын

But the later you are the less likely you'd have your 1 shot at getting laid and then dying for nothing anyway.

Cicada: Finally. Now I have wings and can FLY *drops to the ground and gets eaten by pretty much any animal*

@slipknot8605

3 жыл бұрын

Can I eat it XD

@killeralltires

3 жыл бұрын

@@slipknot8605 they are high in mercury but also high in protein.

@ph9619

3 жыл бұрын

@@slipknot8605 yes you can

@marilynshanks7189

3 жыл бұрын

Are they poison to cats

@blorb32

3 жыл бұрын

@@marilynshanks7189 no

*Grandpa Squirrel:* "It was a day like no other, food suddenly appeared out of nowhere, we ate and we ate and we ate and we ate... Sigh... never again have we seen such a day the heavens blessed us so"

@thecringemaniac3251

3 жыл бұрын

"Grandpa! Grandpa! They're coming back! Get the bucket!"

@-Me_

3 жыл бұрын

@@thecringemaniac3251 or... Gosh grandpa why do you always make up stories?

@pitmezzari2873

2 жыл бұрын

I was about to tell you it happens every year, but then I remembered squirrels are lucky if they even survive 1 year in the wild. They can survive several years though if predators or disease don't get them.

Brought to you by: That itchy feeling on your body

@louissutcliffe6830

4 жыл бұрын

This comment is majorly underrated

@ethanlewandowski1939

4 жыл бұрын

Louis Sutcliffe I agree

@chrisg.6710

4 жыл бұрын

When you said that I started feeling itchy

@caringheart34

3 жыл бұрын

Oh hell naw

@gigibeal

3 жыл бұрын

AHHH NOOO

2:52 the little hand just casually grabs it😂 "Scuseeee me"

@Gr3ypool

3 жыл бұрын

That was just so funny to me!

@rachealroberts1053

3 жыл бұрын

LMAOOOO

@lizlyons4825

3 жыл бұрын

As I was sitting here watching this squirming, that little hand made me laugh so hard🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@davidzheng2119

3 жыл бұрын

Yoink!

@MichaelJones-513

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

I lived in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, for a year and it just happened to be the time when the cicadas wake up... every tree was covered with them, and it was like living next to a railway with the longest train in the world!

@spookysioux1224

3 жыл бұрын

I would literally die

@kushpaladin

3 жыл бұрын

i hope you picked up a rock and smashed them all

@joncarr1200

Жыл бұрын

I'd have a box of Praying Mantises, birds, and raccoons just to feed to those things. They made me suffer, now I return the favor.

@dingusdingus2152

10 ай бұрын

@@spookysioux1224 you get used to the noise. You can eventually tune it out and not even notice it.

@robertemerson1087

8 ай бұрын

@@dingusdingus2152I actually love the noise after living in the south, if you sleep with a fan for white sound don’t judge people who enjoy the sound of the steroid cricket.

Now let us have a moment of silence for those cicadas that died a virgin, RIP...

@bakersmileyface

2 жыл бұрын

I guess I managed to find the virgin in the comment section

2:51 watching that Trash panda grab that one cicada made me laugh. "lemme just grab one of these real quick."

@Boxman5618

5 жыл бұрын

James Ambrocio I’m glad I’m not the only one because I burst into laughter too

@ysangjamir

5 жыл бұрын

Same! 😂😂😂😂😂✔✔✔✔✔

@anonymoussean8457

5 жыл бұрын

Trash pandas 😂😂

@heartlessmushroom

5 жыл бұрын

It's fun to see it grabbing and gobbling cicadas up like they're pop corn.

@levirivaille9957

5 жыл бұрын

LOL OMG SAME

If the cicadas had voices, we'd hear a lot of screaming.

@janspek33

7 жыл бұрын

Bruh, summer in new england. The trees scream

@gtd360

7 жыл бұрын

That's about all they do is scream all summer.

@lasigna0212

7 жыл бұрын

Janspek Like here in Italy

@arkanin5634

7 жыл бұрын

Dude that's not comparable to what we have here in the UAE. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night if the trees there had voices.

@KryXun

6 жыл бұрын

many of those trees were my friends

Cicada's are so cute. Their clumsiness only adds to it. Yes, as adults they're eaten quickly, but these organisms are 17 years old when that happens! They've had long happy lives! They live longer than many of the mammals that eat them. Incredible.

@fellipedasilva99

Жыл бұрын

Most cicadas definitely aren’t clumsy. The fly away very quickly when they feel threatened. This species probably has strength in numbers.

@BodieB

Жыл бұрын

"Happy Lives"

@sugloja

11 ай бұрын

Cute 🤮 I was traumatized by them.😂😂😂

@cicada38

9 ай бұрын

​@@suglojaI'd say it's pretty difficult to be traumatized by them when they don't have anything to hurt you with! Embrace these awesome creatures! ❤️

Animals are so savage they eat the face first without even thinking about it.

@TheStranger513

4 жыл бұрын

@John Monte Breast, wing, leg or thigh would be preferable. But if you must go face first at least consider it for a second. At least let it be deceased. That's some savage shit to just chomp down on the eyes and mouth and brain of a living thing. In conclusion, yes, eat the ass before the face lol.

@chillermiller8654

3 жыл бұрын

Think of it as a headshot

@kcrossover4267

3 жыл бұрын

Jerrell Simmons insects and predators don't have morals like humans. It's eat or get eaten to animals.

@TheStranger513

3 жыл бұрын

@@kcrossover4267 I'm not thinking of morals. I couldn't care less that the cicada gets eaten lol. It's just the fact that that squirrel had no qualms about eating it's face off. I guess it all tastes the same to them.

@kcrossover4267

3 жыл бұрын

Jerrell Simmons but youre talking about at least let it be deceased first as if a squirrel is gonna give a shit about the ethics of eating another animal.

2:52 Racoon be like I'll take one thank you.

@Bookworm-gu3mr

4 жыл бұрын

i love that part it was eating those cicadas like they were a bowl of chips

@EdSuavePerez

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao that shit was funny

@pavanbhargav235

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly 😂

@_jay_6940

4 жыл бұрын

I’m your 666th like, someone buy me a cookie and by that I mean the hooker by the corner who calls herself cookie.

@bobbyhill8486

4 жыл бұрын

i know, it was the fkn cutest thing ever!

They're really screaming about their existential nightmare

@razor3106

4 жыл бұрын

I'm Mr. Cicada, look at me!

@NakedAvanger

4 жыл бұрын

THIS IS HORRIBLE! I JUST WANT TO FUCKING DIE! falls into pond

@averymartin1327

3 жыл бұрын

*crunchy babies*

Nobody: Cicadas every 17 years: AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

@isaiahleonard9352

3 жыл бұрын

I think its relaxing probably becaus ei have to listen to them every year

@hsshbxhxxh4598

3 жыл бұрын

@@isaiahleonard9352 مخ.ة

@hsshbxhxxh4598

3 жыл бұрын

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@hsshbxhxxh4598

3 жыл бұрын

ن ت خ

It's astounding! It's almost as if their purpose is just to feed the forest, keep the nutrients cycled throughout wildlife and then deteriorate back into the Earth and leaving babies to continue the process in 17 years. I'm in Awe

@warchieftitan5045

2 жыл бұрын

Intricate and complex design of the Eco system, something that is surely no coincidence. Great comment friend

@cantinandaba4419

2 жыл бұрын

@@warchieftitan5045 Im going to have to comment as well. The complexity of this ecosystem is just too much for coincidence

@MrMyers758

2 жыл бұрын

@@cantinandaba4419 Yes, It's almost as if some naturally occurring selection process led to a niche being filled

@cantinandaba4419

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrMyers758 keyword; "almost". Reality is often stranger than fiction.

@xenomorph6961

2 жыл бұрын

@@cantinandaba4419 It is, but fiction is easier to understand for some people...

The empty shed shells, meanwhile, evolve into Ghost-types with only 1 HP

@wizzlesticks

3 жыл бұрын

Then, after killing 100,000 Ghost Cicadas, the Angry Cicada Tornado is summoned. All other creatures within a 1km radius are bitten to death.

@lheiannajheancarino9480

3 жыл бұрын

Oh you mean shedinja, in the games, it sucks

@Rctdcttecededtef

3 жыл бұрын

@@lheiannajheancarino9480 you could use it in some convoluted way probably

@ricardofuentesgutierrez1442

3 жыл бұрын

Only if you have an empty space in the party and some pokeballs

@hrishikeshyalgudkar5248

3 жыл бұрын

Nincada Ninjask Shedinja

Seeing the racoon hand out of nowhere just casually pick up a cicadas really make me giggle

@kimberlycrouch7228

4 жыл бұрын

Dat Guy I thought it was unexpectedly funny, too!

@scottsmith5623

4 жыл бұрын

Right?! Raccoon be like “Ima eat this one and this one and this one...

@rabotlhokotlhabane9546

Жыл бұрын

It had to be a raccoon-San haha 😄 😆.. They always want piece of action

@GeneticBrainy

Жыл бұрын

I was like where the fuck is that hand coming from😂😂😂

@Lycan4

Жыл бұрын

Like when you absentmindedly reach your hand into a bag to grab another chip. lolz.

Who's watching this in 2020 when they are set to return in a month??

@krispapplesauce4801

4 жыл бұрын

for me, its happening right now in my backyard

@josesevinelevin9262

4 жыл бұрын

@@krispapplesauce4801 RUN!!

@queengemini3433

4 жыл бұрын

The outbreak is supposed to happen next year where I live apparently

@ablazozo6303

4 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dron/ei2bBQd1SLrmFym0YlmAaw.html

@upstatesoldado

4 жыл бұрын

are cicidas dangerous?

"At first there are merely thousands" MERELY thousands.....god bugs are terrifying

@japanesemyth

3 жыл бұрын

They do make up about 80% of all animal species. Guess it's a good thing they are mostly just here for other animals to eat lol

@chitinskin9860

3 жыл бұрын

@@japanesemyth or to eat eachother, or do maintenance on whatever biome they live in (decomposition, pollination, etc). I'm glad that, for the most part, they are each directly beneficial to at least several species just by existing.

@talha_05

3 жыл бұрын

Even locusts

@pasticcinideliziosi1259

3 жыл бұрын

The only thing they do to be hated by us humans is being ugly and making noises

Animals every 17 years: *WE DINE ON CICADAS!*

plot twist: they're living a hell of a life, undisturbed for 17 years underground and mate as their last wish

@scottsmith5623

4 жыл бұрын

Sloppy seconds!

@wliaputs

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like human

Seeing all the different forest critters feasting on the clumsy cicadas is oddly satisfying.

I would gladly argue that no one on this Earth appreciates the sound of cicadas as much as I do.

I love cicadas. They may look scary, but they're actually really chill, you can pick them up and they simply don't care and will stick around with you for a while. Cool, nice bugs.

@TheLegacy87

5 жыл бұрын

You guys are weirdos I don't understand the fascination with ugly gross creepy bugs.

@Kit76879

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheLegacy87 THEN WHY ARE YOU HERE!?

@nasawebbtelescope957

4 жыл бұрын

I collect them these speices are in Ohio.

@toneiv6560

4 жыл бұрын

TOMATO KING Tomato King I live in Ohio too. They were fucking huge last emergence

@ShadowofLegacy

4 жыл бұрын

@@Kit76879 To understand what we fear

Cicadas to forest animals: Thanksgiving X Christmas.

@oshunorisha367

6 жыл бұрын

Cyber Maverick Gamer If Thanksgiving happened once in our lifetime

@DocJamesH

5 жыл бұрын

My brother are a cicada. Apparently it tastes like nuts.

My early childhood, being chased around by the empty husks of these monster bugs!

@teegladden1606

3 жыл бұрын

I remember being chased in 2004 when they came out 🏃🏿‍♀️

I remember seeing these when I was in preschool. I’m now a junior in college and they’re coming back

Perspective about squirrels changed dramatically.

@SO-CS

4 жыл бұрын

That clip scarred me 😰

@segundonoacco3164

4 жыл бұрын

Squirrels est meat to bro

@2ndintelligentWorld

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha

@2ndintelligentWorld

4 жыл бұрын

@@SO-CS aww haha

@moonlightbutterfly97

4 жыл бұрын

‘‘Twas a chipmunk not a squirrel

Man those Cicadas, they get a wife and call it a life.

@vilenationgaming

4 жыл бұрын

@Jubei Yang So you're saying get married have kids then die right after?

@deplorableb.r.4211

3 жыл бұрын

@@vilenationgaming about sums it up.

I'm here literally because they're supposed to be coming this year

@queengemini3433

4 жыл бұрын

I heard that they’re coming next year wtf 😰

@user-xn3rs7tu5w

4 жыл бұрын

Duuude they be invading my tree every summer, I’m SO glad I sleep on the other side of the house, but hey, that’s gonna do nothing now

@montimurt4529

4 жыл бұрын

😂

@watermelon8300

4 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure they're emerging in 2021, but some are emerging early in other places

@TheStranger513

4 жыл бұрын

I'm figuratively here because they're supposed to be coming this year.

Maybe Cicada 3301 is waiting for those 17 years to be up before the reemerge...

Nymphs: “Let’s climb this gigantic tree and THEN grow wings!”

@wailer27

4 жыл бұрын

Get to the kitchen!

@rageraptor7127

4 жыл бұрын

Strummer1980 get to the gulags

@RaptorBacon

4 жыл бұрын

I noticed Lorne Armstrong asked you to email him many years ago. I was wondering if you ever had a convo with him.

@esthersue3403

4 жыл бұрын

how do u fly off the ground it’s easier to glide up there

Wait what did I say?

@kalebthompson8303

4 жыл бұрын

2020 is a nightmare

@aawqaq620

4 жыл бұрын

@@kalebthompson8303 fu*k 2020

@hagifathurachman7016

4 жыл бұрын

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

@skyrimking4098

4 жыл бұрын

I guess its one thing thats good about 2020 is all of the animals in the world are healing (in some ways)

@MrSayon20

4 жыл бұрын

Really? Locusts and Cicadas together in the same year??

I always liked the novel of the Cicada that was reincarnated as a Dragon. His one regret as a Cicada was that he spent his last three days finding a mate only to be eaten by a bird.

I live in Texas and have been hearing a "rattling" sound for the last 3 weeks or so. I was also finding carcasses and had no clue what they were until I looked it up. It sounds like a forest full of cicadas where I live. Pretty wild. They look like little aliens.

2:17 Hmm... Didn't know Mitch McConell ate cicadas. Learn something new every day.

@JakeobE

7 жыл бұрын

Could not stop laughing at this. I'm happy people are fluent in politics.

@mr.chipwhitley8770

7 жыл бұрын

Haha! Always thought he looked like a turtle in a suit wearing glasses. Btw, Conan O'Brien has talk-show episodes where he makes fun of Mitch's turtle-like appearance and egg-laying habits. Hilarious!

@justacitizen111

6 жыл бұрын

Dude your comment literally made me laugh out loud. Oh my....

@cadederrick6751

6 жыл бұрын

More like Bret Baier

@ivanpetropov6276

6 жыл бұрын

Mr. Chip Whitley Mitch McConnell is a cicada

As Grandpa used to say, "The early worm gets eaten by the bird."

>coming out after 17 years in the nest >screams for mating >dies

Imagine waiting a whole 17 years to be an adult just to trip on a leaf and get eaten by a turtle.

1:23 Congratulations! Your NINCADA evolved into a NINJASK

@tatir7081

4 жыл бұрын

And the shell is SHEDNINJA.

@kuri1796

3 жыл бұрын

Tati R Pokémon fandom too huh?

@mamunurrashidsojib7866

3 жыл бұрын

Lose my interest after reaching 40 on 2019.

Watching that squirrel chow down on one freaked me out! I thought squirrels were herbivores.

@yevhenvoitsekhovskyi9877

7 жыл бұрын

ikr upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Squirrel_eating_a_bird.JPG

@johndifrancisco3642

7 жыл бұрын

EEEEEwwwwww!!!! My Mom's friend told me that the squirrels were eating the birds as a joke after we were hit by a tornado. He made fun of me for being so gullible. Wait till I show him THAT! Thank you so much

@CyberMaverickGamer

7 жыл бұрын

john difrancisco 🤔, 😲

@yevhenvoitsekhovskyi9877

7 жыл бұрын

No problem, I'm happy I was helpful! :D o7

@TheShyRage

7 жыл бұрын

john difrancisco not a squirrel its a chipmunk

"Oh I'm so hungry, wish it rained food today" said the turtle and lo!

Squirrels, birds, raccoons, and frogs are heroes.

@hamzahassan7730

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah i am annoyed by their buzzing. I also find their shells disgusting.

@ChainikB

3 жыл бұрын

Noo cicadas did nothing wrong T___T

@ElenaMasser

3 жыл бұрын

Think again, buddy... about everything cicadas had been doing underground during those years...

@lil_orbits2658

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChainikB its called life buddy, nothing is fair :)

@ChainikB

3 жыл бұрын

@@lil_orbits2658 but we can change it, maybe a little, but we can

I happen to live in an area that gets 17 year cicadas. This video misrepresents it. It's not a few days. It's a whole summer of cicadas. They are not so impeccably timed to come out all at once. I'd say within two weeks. But there's some much overlap between the waves of oncoming and not-dying-as-quick-as-they're-supposed-to cicadas that the thing goes from May to August. Granted, by August, it's mostly a sea of cicada carcasses with a good number still moving around for whatever reason. A whole bunch come the year before and after, too, as a sort of lost brigade from the main army. Yeah, I experienced cicada summer. Another one coming up in just a few years! From the DC metro area.

@TheLegacy87

5 жыл бұрын

So true I live In delaware and these things are here all fricken summer.I hate them!

@deadhomieorchestra5270

5 жыл бұрын

A fine gentleman known as the Sovietgangsta is teaching us. Good times!

@Pimmelberger

4 жыл бұрын

@@deadhomieorchestra5270 hahahaha

@Bozbaby103

4 жыл бұрын

Truth! I, too, live in an area that has the 17 yr cicadas. It is EXACTLY like he says.

@chukidz

4 жыл бұрын

@@Bozbaby103 will it happen again 17 yrs later or next year u can see it again?

17 years of sleeping then wake up, lay eggs then die after a few days. what a life..

@EmdrGreg

7 жыл бұрын

I don't think they are sleeping the whole time; maybe they don't sleep at all. They grub around among the tree roots until it's time to emerge.

@augustusmd

7 жыл бұрын

Greg Scott thanks for the info. i thought they're hibernating the whole time.

@hotdogy12345

6 жыл бұрын

fluffimator yeah it's not like us humans change history or make a difference in the world or anything

@Lavendeer201

5 жыл бұрын

Same

@KakaOfTheRealMadrid

4 жыл бұрын

@@EmdrGreg i also have a feeling for insects 1 day for us is 100's of days for them.. Because most of them live for only a few days

I hear these every summer an have their exoskeleton all over my backyard.

"The life cycle of ratchet screwdriver fruit is quite interesting. Once picked it needs a dark dusty drawer in which it can lie undisturbed for years. Then one night it suddenly hatches, discards its outer shell which crumbles to dust, and emerges as a totally unidentifiable little metal object with flanges at both ends and a sort of ridge and a sort of hole for a screw. This, when found, will get thrown away. No one knows what it is supposed to gain from this. Nature, in her infinite wisdom, is presumably working on it." - (Douglas Adams, Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy)

good to know i'm not the only one that goes outside every 17 years

@godybee515

3 жыл бұрын

Seddi You too? Yeah brother

2:37 Imagine coming aboveground after 17 years, only to have your face eaten by a chipmunk.

@hanisrosli5484

4 жыл бұрын

😅😅😅

@randybobandy9828

3 жыл бұрын

What's the different? You literally sleep for 17 years and wake up for 2 days then fuck and die. What a utterly purposely creature.

@moonondp4173

3 жыл бұрын

@@randybobandy9828 w8 I dont think that happens to ppl

@randybobandy9828

3 жыл бұрын

@@moonondp4173 no it doesn't why would you think that?

I live in the Midwest and the swarm of 2021 was incredible.I at the time was working for an arborist and there was nowhere to step without stepping on one.They were loud,but amazing to handle and watch! Never in my life have I seen such amazing entomology!,I can’t wait for the next swarm!

Squidward: “As if the answers to all your problems, will fall right out of the sky HA HA HA! FALL RIGHT OUT OF THE SKY!!! Cicada: “Dude were falling right out of the sky!”

@yukonfarnsworth1688

3 жыл бұрын

Wooloolooo

Imagine waking up one day with a hotel buffet in your bedroom.

I love cicadas. In Brazil, there are clever species, but the most common one spends around 4 years underground. Every year there is a cycle that completes, and they emerge during the summer with their chanting: sssssiiiisssssiiisssssiiiiissssssiiiiissssssii...

This is record-breaking footage! No prior documentary has captured as many forest creatures in one roll of film as this one has. From racoons and squirrels to skunks, and from rare birds to turtles. Simply extraordinary.

@baigandinel7956

2 жыл бұрын

It's like Bambi with more bugs.

Every 17 years they amaze me !! From my childhood I remember them and several times afterwards . I'm 70 now and this year they came out again !!♡!!

They forgot at the end where I began stealing all of their exoskeletons.

Nobody: Absolutely no one: Every animé summer day: *_C I C A D A S_*

@SingPandaProductions

3 жыл бұрын

I CAME HERE FOR THIS COMMENT! Anime always had cicadas in it. So weird I'm glad someone else noticed this also.

@_Meriwether

3 жыл бұрын

@@SingPandaProductions xD

It's like a warzone for them when they emerge.

I didn't know squirrels eat bugs

@kenneth27205

7 жыл бұрын

Billy G Squirrels are omnivorous

@damoos3.

6 жыл бұрын

squirrels eat mice too, the grey ground squirrels are horrible tree rats destroy properties too and in the UK they are invasive and invade the red squirrel habitats

@syncmonism

5 жыл бұрын

@@damoos3. We tend to dislike any wild animals which are well adapted to coexisting with humans and human activity, but humans are the most invasive and destructive species of all. Squirrels can be a huge pain in the ass but they're here to stay. At least they're cute.

@helliott2033

5 жыл бұрын

Squirrels eat anything. Last Easter we went and "planted" jelly beans for them to "grow" into suckers and we had a squirrel come and snatch one of the suckers lol

@HorizonofOsiris

5 жыл бұрын

@@helliott2033 my hunting friend said they will eat each other once one dies.

wait... did he say billion? like with a B? Like, one thousand million?!

@mashroom_

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, one 🅱️ *ILLION* cicadas, with a 🅱️

@thegoldenanvil124

7 жыл бұрын

Paco Umm Billion is one hundred million...not one thousand Billion...and yep he said Billion...

@nikolaib4047

7 жыл бұрын

TheGoldenAnvil umm.... You are actually mistaken, one billion is a thousand million. If u don't believe me, just google it

@gregcpgs

7 жыл бұрын

TheGoldenAnvil billion in 10^9

@thegoldenanvil124

6 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Williams I am not an American but I know English...British English...

Every forest creature came for the all you can eat menu once every 17 years!

This is happening right now except for both broods are coming out of the ground and they are making one hell of a noise in my backyard .

Had I been an Entomologist, the Cicada would have been my favorite. Love hearing the Cicada orchestra tune up and play their full, albeit, short performances, repeatedly. Excellent video BBC Earth, thank you.

@CLASSICALFAN100

4 жыл бұрын

I hate the word "albeit", almost as much as I hate the words "issue" and (everybody's all-time favorite) "ABSOLUTELY"...

@Jazz5777

Жыл бұрын

@@CLASSICALFAN100 seriously! Literally ! Add em to it.

did they wait 17 years to film these?

@aquil7759

7 жыл бұрын

they just record when they go above

@adoschtinad

7 жыл бұрын

drumond fanton They just counted forward 17 years from the last occurence and said 'we'll film then'.

@edthe2nd

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah. they set up tents and wait 17 years.

@ibrax1

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, they send people to wait in the middle of a forest for 17 years.

@arlin0242

7 жыл бұрын

hmm... that's a long wait in the forest (๑-﹏-๑)

the cameraman just sold his soul to record this

Cicadas, the great forest stimulus package

The adult was laying the eggs in the tree branch but the pupae rose up out of the ground. When and how does the transfer to the ground happen?

@bkjeong4302

7 жыл бұрын

DavisOnABike After the babies hatch

@DavisOnABike

7 жыл бұрын

I do believe you are correct, however that's a 17 year window. I was hoping for a more specific answer? Anyway, nevermind, I googled it which is probably what I should have done to begin with.

@jonizzzle

7 жыл бұрын

From what I heard, the larvae embed themselves into the tree branch and eventually the branch dies and falls down to the ground. That's when they bury themselves.

@Renville80

6 жыл бұрын

DavisOnABike from what I've read, the eggs hatch and the larvae fall to the ground, and they then immediately start burrowing into the ground and find a root from which they shall suckle during their entire underground existence.

@nathanashmore2131

6 жыл бұрын

DavisOnABike When they hatch, the new nymphs purposely fall to the ground and immediately start burrowing into the soil in search of plant roots to feed off of until they are fully grown and ready to molt.

That environment with a billion cicadas flying around is literal hell on earth for me cuz of my phobia for bugs.... but for the other animals that eat them , it's heaven... perspectives can be so contrasting

This is the 17th year for them now, i didnt think it actually looked this bad

Was 5yrs old in 76, in Philadephia on vacation. Collected tons of the shells to bring back home to Chicago for show and tell. 👍

The animals be like "after 17 years, we're finally eating"

The "singing" of male cicadas is produced principally and in the majority of species using a special structure called a tymbal, a pair of which lie below each side of the anterior abdominal region. The structure is buckled by muscular action and being made of resilin unbuckled rapidly on muscle relaxation and the rapid action of muscles produces their characteristic sounds. Some cicadas however have mechanisms for stridulation, sometimes in addition to the tymbals. Here the wings are rubbed over a series of mid-thoracic ridges. The sounds may further be modulated by membranous coverings and by resonant cavities.The male abdomen in some species is largely hollow, and acts as a sound box. By rapidly vibrating these membranes, a cicada combines the clicks into apparently continuous notes, and enlarged chambers derived from the tracheae serve as resonance chambers with which it amplifies the sound. The cicada also modulates the song by positioning its abdomen toward or away from the substrate. Partly by the pattern in which it combines the clicks, each species produces its own distinctive mating songs and acoustic signals, ensuring that the song attracts only appropriate mates. Average temperature of the natural habitat for the South American species Fidicina rana is approximately 29 °C (84 °F). During sound production, the temperature of the tymbal muscles was found to be significantly higher. Many cicadas sing most actively during the hottest hours of a summer day; roughly a 24-hour cycle. Most cicadas are diurnal in their calling and depend on external heat to warm them up while a few are capable of raising their temperature using muscle action and some species are known to call at dusk. Kanakia gigas and Froggattoides typicus are among the few that are known to be truly nocturnal and there may be other nocturnal species living in tropical forests. Although only males produce the cicadas' distinctive sounds, both sexes have membranous structures called tympana by which they detect sounds; the equivalent of having ears. Males disable their own tympana while calling, thereby preventing damage to their hearing; a necessity partly because some cicadas produce sounds up to 120 dB (SPL) which is among the loudest of all insect-produced sounds. The song is loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss in humans should the cicada be at "close range". In contrast, some small species have songs so high in pitch that they are inaudible to humans. For the human ear, it is often difficult to tell precisely where a cicada song originates. The pitch is nearly constant, the sound is continuous to the human ear, and cicadas sing in scattered groups. In addition to the mating song, many species have a distinct distress call, usually a broken and erratic sound emitted by the insect when seized or panicked. Some species also have courtship songs, generally quieter, and produced after a female has been drawn to the calling song. Males also produce encounter calls, whether in courtship or to maintain personal space within choruses. The song of cicadas is considered by entomologists to be unique to a given species, and a number of resources exist to collect and analyse cicada sounds.

@eric-vu1jy

Жыл бұрын

SOUNDS LIKE RATTLESNAKE UP IN THE TREES

They’re harmless but they’re big and loud.

Imagine having a longer childhood than a being that lives 5-6 times longer.

2:38 That Squirrel is a badass

@wailer27

4 жыл бұрын

Get to the kitchen!

@aaronbeall8280

3 жыл бұрын

That’s a chipmunk and yes he is

As a wise philosopher once put quite elegantly, and I quote: “I order the food, you cook the food, the customer gets the food. We do this for 40 years, and then we die.”

How they got this kind of footage is beyond me but it’s amazing ever single time.

@rubalu6014

Жыл бұрын

I think they used something called a "camera". Just a wild theory.

My grandparents have a cabin in the woods and every 17 years it gets overran with cicadas. It's so crazy to see

they really are clumsy lol they always fall out of the tree's then get themselfs tangled in the grass somehow. i have to pick them up for them to fly away.

What I find funny is how often people think 17 year cicadas are an event like Haley's comment. Not actually paying attention that they come out every year.

@mark-ish

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed, and yes Attenborough, even the same areas. He made a rather silly comment at the very end.

@bkjeong4302

3 жыл бұрын

The cicadas that turn up every year are not 17-year cicadas.

Shout-out to my people in the Appalachian mountains! It's time, baby.

@CLASSICALFAN100

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, by thunder, I'm gonna get out my cicada-shotgun & *BAG ME A BUSHEL* !!

Cicadas appear after 17 years. All the other animals: Is it for me?

Daddy Attenborough

@onyourface207

6 жыл бұрын

*sir Daddy Attenborough

@yansami9903

6 жыл бұрын

gator tho Lol.

@MrMisjudge

4 жыл бұрын

cursed comment

@carlhanopoldelosreyes4404

4 жыл бұрын

I swear to God if you kink shamed David Attenborough by calling him "daddy".

I just learned squirrels have no feelings. 😂

I’m imagining my poor cats trying to catch all those guys on the first day and then coming back home worn out and defeated, hoping I’m not disappointed in them for not stopping the invasion...

The Call at 1:42 gave me chills. They are truly a wonder of nature.

Such an amazing life cycle, so much to learn from nature.

This happened where I lived as a kid when I was in my early teens. You could not walk anywhere without crunching on the shells! I also noticed that there are always a few that come up every year that are not on schedule.

@bkjeong4302

6 жыл бұрын

Rachel V K Different cicada species. The ones that emerge in swarms stick to schedule.

So cool and guess what the 17 cicada is coming back again this year after 17 years

they are on their way rn

Cicadas attack: Exist Every american: loads shotgun

@SCP3017-1

3 жыл бұрын

*loads flamethrower*

@redneck_3383

3 жыл бұрын

Nah we like cicadas

@TheUncertainKill

3 жыл бұрын

I love the smell of napalm in the morning

who's here at unreasonable hours just cause they don't want to sleep?

@thenightmare7316

3 жыл бұрын

Unreasonable gang

Seeing this in person, it's just amazing. If anyone lives in a area where this doesn't happen? Traveling will be worth it.

Fun fact: periodical cicadas specifically live for 13 or 17 years because they're large prime numbers, so their predators cannot have a lifespan that is a factor of the Cicadas life span, so they are unable to take full advantage of the cicada feast by exploding their population every 3 or 4 generations in anticipation.

@Jazz5777

Жыл бұрын

Exploiting ,. That's very interesting info. I always fascinate at number 17 too. The pyramids we're mostly based on that number.

@michaeledwards1172

Жыл бұрын

I was quite intrigued by this when I first read of it, and it seemed incredible that something so mathematical as prime numbers could evolve in nature, but the explanation given made sense of it - and it was along the lines you suggest, concerning predators exploiting cicadas. Do you know if periodical cicadas use any number of years other than 13 or 17? Could there, by any chance, be species or strains of cicada that use a composite number of years, and make it work - or would natural selection ruthlessly eliminate any with a non-prime-number of years in their cycle?

This is how most prey species have to survive, just overwhelm predators with sheer numbers.