Born too late to discover the world, Born too early to explore space, Born just in time too witness a shitload of cicadas

@cnitevedi4832

17 күн бұрын

😂

@kabeblake3297

7 күн бұрын

Nice interstellar refernece

@amazingmagic8949

5 күн бұрын

🤣

@EnbyGhostFin

4 күн бұрын

you know what, at this point i'll take it

@kutatm

3 күн бұрын

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

This is one of those incredible events that I'd rather not witness first hand.

@tessat338

3 ай бұрын

We do get periodic cicadas, but thankfully, we are not in this overlap area. Have fun, y'all!

@Drekromancer

3 ай бұрын

Man getting overrun by a Biblical plague of locusts: _"I shouldn't have wished to live in interesting times!!"_

@sleepy2655

3 ай бұрын

My ears

@SilentRacer911

3 ай бұрын

I did when I was a child, it was absolutely incredible.

@Random_UserName4269

3 ай бұрын

Honestly it’s awesome! I’ve lived through two of them now, it’s a sight to behold.

Scream -> Sex -> Death Ah yes, the life cycle of the average rockstar.

@Tic_Tac_caca

5 күн бұрын

And peeing water in the air😭

@GenesisRasphotos

4 күн бұрын

​@@Tic_Tac_cacaummm are you drunk?

@ev-ezaye3580

4 күн бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Tic_Tac_caca

4 күн бұрын

@@GenesisRasphotos yesn’t

“Scream, have sex then die” Just me without the sex

@castleanthrax1833

2 күн бұрын

I behave more like a wombat who eats roots and leaves. 😊

I’d like to think they call it their “Cicadian Rythm”

@thekirbycrafter7229

2 ай бұрын

Door. NOW

@anyascelticcreations

Ай бұрын

I love it! 😂😂😂 👏

@naxetpiano4353

Ай бұрын

Niiice!!

@crazycaj14jones64

Ай бұрын

BOOOO!!!! (Damn that was clever wish I had thought of that)

@CRONCHBOIWATER

Ай бұрын

hella clever

"Scream, have sex, and die" 😂

@hassassinator8858

3 ай бұрын

Relatable

@thegamingwolf5612

3 ай бұрын

Such a simple life

@poeticsilence047

3 ай бұрын

The life of most OF girls. Lol

@danielbenner7583

3 ай бұрын

Sounds like a great punk song.

@souldanny.

3 ай бұрын

Goals

Do you think they'll be loud enough to drown out all of the gunshots? Cicadas: "You're welcome Chicago, sleep well for a bit."

@_callmecyan

2 ай бұрын

To bad they shut up at night, and even if they didn’t I think they’d keep us up too

@burstvgc

Ай бұрын

If you knew anything about chicago, you'd know only one brood, not both, will be there.

@itsmznatnatbitchez

29 күн бұрын

I’m from Chicago and I approve this message!

@-TheCuteFox-

13 күн бұрын

We’re gonna have plenty of sleep 😢

The prime number part is genuinely insane. How beautiful

@zackbuildit88

Ай бұрын

wanna know why they're both prime numbers? it's pretty interesting!

@heckingbamboozled8097

27 күн бұрын

​@@zackbuildit88 "muh god"

@zackbuildit88

27 күн бұрын

@@heckingbamboozled8097 do you?

@athar_adv

27 күн бұрын

​@@zackbuildit88Is it because the cicadas who didnt have prime number cycles died?

@zackbuildit88

26 күн бұрын

@@athar_adv in a sense but there's an actual reason that they landed on prime numbers specifically

"Scream, Have Sex and Die" is gonna be the name of my thrash metal album

@maxstirner8717

3 ай бұрын

Thrash is life.

@ElizabethSetlow-Phillips

3 ай бұрын

Where can I pre-order

@aiodensghost8645

2 ай бұрын

Release when??

@colbyr7811

2 ай бұрын

"Love-hate-sex-pain" by Godsmack is close 😂

That map feels like the result of an evil wizard ritually summoning a blight on Chicago.

@Akrid217

3 ай бұрын

What he’s talking about is pretty far away from Chicago. Or do you think the whole state of Illinois is Chicago?

@Optional3

3 ай бұрын

@@Akrid217idk i would still be afraid

@audreydoyle5268

3 ай бұрын

​@@Akrid217 bold of you to assume the circadas won't mirgrate a little

@Akrid217

3 ай бұрын

True I live pretty close to the overlap so I am scared…

@hiramsicles5580

3 ай бұрын

@@Akrid217 as a chicagoan, the whole state of illinois is chicago

I saw a video that talked about an experiment to determine how they could know the time precisely. Apparently they simulated half day cycles of light and dark to make the plants around the cicadas release the nutrients to the soil twice as fast. They did that for a year, 2 years before the estimated time for the breeding cycle. The cicadas emerged 1 year earlier, pointing to either a direct connection between the cicadas and the flora, or an ability to sense the changes in light while underground.

OMG the buzzing sound around my house just won't stop. Its cool they have evolved in such a unique way but it sucks that every time I go outside my house all I hear is a constant buzzing sound.

@juliak4107

Ай бұрын

I work outside a lot and I sometimes come home with headaches because of the noise XD

@cindylawson8099

4 күн бұрын

Lucky you don’t live where both are in the same spot

@castleanthrax1833

2 күн бұрын

Not to mention the golden showers you receive when you walk under the trees. 😮

"Morph into an adult, scream, have sex, and die" I think I'm a Cicada just without the sex

@divinecomedian2

3 ай бұрын

Probably without the adult too, if you're screaming so much

@daltonc.5720

3 ай бұрын

NOW ME PERSONALLY, I wouldn’t take that level of disrespect 😂😂

@yasbutthicc5952

3 ай бұрын

​@@divinecomedian2 He's rocking the proto aint no way hes above the age of 16

@wildgoosedreaming1

2 ай бұрын

​@@divinecomedian2 The adulting part is the cause for the screaming ...

@kimkimmy1269

2 ай бұрын

Considering you are (or were) alive as well when you made the comment.

"I FIGHT FOR SUPER EARTH!"

@Peace_And_Love42

3 ай бұрын

Oh no! There's a cicada in my cup of Liber-tea! 👆👉👇👇👇

@P3trarch

3 ай бұрын

Sweet liberty!!!

@commentingaccount556

3 ай бұрын

Until june 4th, the day democracy dies (unless everyone does sth about it)

@Rose_Harmonic

3 ай бұрын

Now if only I could get my hands on several hundred thousand Sherman flamethrower tanks.

@Rochus_Turris

3 ай бұрын

FOR DEMOCRACY

Scientists actually just proved that the cicadas are using the tree roots of the trees next to where they’re sleeping as a living calendar system for this timing ability. Artificially aged roots can throw off their inner clock.

@castleanthrax1833

2 күн бұрын

How do artificially aged roots occur?

@snarflcat6187

Күн бұрын

@@castleanthrax1833 Unfortunately I was out of the office that day. But COPILOT answered that: Copilot Sent by Copilot: In the study conducted by researchers at the University of Connecticut, the process of artificially stimulating tree roots to disrupt cicada timing involved several key steps: Selection of Trees: Researchers selected trees with cicada broods feeding on their roots. Manipulation of Xylem Flow: They manipulated the xylem fluid flow in the tree roots. Xylem is the tissue responsible for transporting water and nutrients from the roots to the rest of the tree. Simulating Seasonal Cycles: By altering the flow of xylem fluid, they simulated the passage of multiple years in a short period. This was done by artificially creating conditions that mimicked the seasonal changes the trees would naturally experience over several years. Monitoring Cicada Response: The researchers then monitored the cicadas’ response to these changes. The altered xylem flow disrupted the cicadas’ internal clocks, causing them to emerge at incorrect times1. This experiment demonstrated how cicadas rely on the seasonal cycles of their host trees to keep track of time. It’s a fascinating example of how environmental manipulation can be used to study biological processes.

@snarflcat6187

Күн бұрын

And, yes, you just showed how helpful AI can be.

@castleanthrax1833

Күн бұрын

@@snarflcat6187 No, I just asked a question. What has AI got to do with this?

@GhOsTxPheonix

Күн бұрын

Trees go through cycles depending on temperature. Like when in fall, they lose all their leaves and hybernate a bit. This changes the temperatures around it's roots and what-not. That's what they mean by artificial trees. They were in a lab and artificially squeezed the cycle of two years into one and the cicadas emerged a year early. ​@@castleanthrax1833

I used to live in the heart of Illinois but moved to the west coast. I am a little sad to be missing this and also a little relieved at the same time.

Not me living in the overlap 😭

@themindset4164

3 ай бұрын

Godspeed soldier 🫡 you will be remembered.

@foegambino2035

3 ай бұрын

Bro that wat im saying im not going outside

@Herl_Shevin101

2 ай бұрын

comrade you will be an honored member and your ears will go to valhalla

@herobrine1847

2 ай бұрын

LMAO good luck

@luvnaIV

2 ай бұрын

same😭

So basically, it is going to sound like an anime scene during the summer. Got it.

@DembaiVT

3 ай бұрын

Nah, not that piping sound. When it's a brood year it's so many that the loud is all you get. I've been camping during just one brood emergence. It's deafening. Two is going to be hell. 😂

@hotrodchevy4524

3 ай бұрын

Not where I live thank God. 😁

@Somedude20282

3 ай бұрын

Nah, think overhead drones 24/7

@monochromicornthetuna4256

3 ай бұрын

Summertime Rendering😂

@Zionswasd

2 ай бұрын

It sounds more like kazoos or those new years twisty things, except nonstop, and you can hear millions.

Fun fact: there was a study done in 2002 that tested how cicadas know when to leave the earth. They took one group, put them under a tree they usually live in. Recreated the 4 seasons (one year) twice in one year (so basically 2 years in one) and they started to crawl up a year early. The control group came out when it was 17 years. So a year later then the study.

To me, for some reason, this guy looks like Green Goblin from Spider Man. 😂😂

Stuck here on the southeast fringe of the 13-year brood, I can verify that it's already loud. I can hear these darned cicadas from INSIDE my house. It's like having tinnitus!

@actuallymario7676

3 ай бұрын

I feel ya, north Virginia had a brood 2-3 years ago. You couldnt drive to work without at least 3-4 making their grave on your windshield.

@calebadam2576

2 ай бұрын

Tennessee here. It makes me reflexively think I left the water running in the bathroom sink every now and then, but nope, just cicadas.

@purplekat5864

2 ай бұрын

Actually, that's how I describe my tinnitus to others. Not quite as loud as cicadas, but that same annoying screechiness!

@dragonfirerich

2 ай бұрын

@purplekat5864 the periodic cicadas have finally tapered off here in East Georgia. The ringing in my ears is just my normal tinnitus now.

@purplekat5864

2 ай бұрын

@@dragonfirerich You have my sympathy!

Cicada life: goo-goo, digging a hole digging a hole, RAAHHHH, Hey baby, Tell my daughter i love her

So THIS is why the Cicada 3301 virus explanation video got reccommended to me

What's funny is that I live in Illinois near the border of the two broods. In my area I don't even notice them, and I live in a wooded area, but when i go somewhere just 20 or 30 miles south, it's nearly deafening

The internal clock on some insects and animals are truly amazing

@generalcodsworth4417

3 ай бұрын

From what I've read, some may not be an internal clock at all, but an external clock humans just can't see. Dogs, for instance, can predict with high accuracy when their people return home from work every day. The mechanism at play here is theorized to not be an internal clock, but the fact that the person's smell declines throughout the day when they're not home, so the dog can smell what the house is like when the door is usually about to open to anticipate it. Perhaps cicadas count the years based on temperature or something else to aid in their internal clock. Maybe rather than counting all 17 years straight, they count 17 winter solstices and then count just a few months.

@user-tr2mb4xs7i

3 ай бұрын

Did the insects also work out the math to use prime number intervals which don't overlap?

@tsm688

2 ай бұрын

@@user-tr2mb4xs7i more that the ones which didn't use prime number intervals died a lot more...

@leeroydaanknz5064

2 ай бұрын

There was a study that suggests they use the cycle of the trees instead of an internal clock

@AG-ig8uf

Ай бұрын

@@generalcodsworth4417 ".. they count 17 winter solstices and then count just a few months." you just explained internal clock, while claiming they don't use internal clock.

I was having this just playing in the background when i heard "scream have sex and die", and that interrupted my entire train of thought and now I can't remember what I was thinking about

@standforright17

3 ай бұрын

Let me guess..you have the munchies now 🤣🤣👍

"wake up, it's time for dust bowl 2.0"

That was mathematically crazy. 13 × 17 = 221 years.

Are the 13 and 17 year broods different species or the same species with different cycles? Can they interbreed? If they do, which cycle will the offsprings follow?

@tovekauppi1616

3 ай бұрын

Considering they’d only have the opportunity to interbreed once every other century, I’m not sure anyone knows.

@W0B0N

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for taking your time to type out this thought. I found it very interesting. And for an answer: i do not know.

@frostyvoid827

3 ай бұрын

I think what happens when they interbred is that they don't know which cycle to follow and then die. The reason why they rise every 13 and 17 years specifically is to minimize the chance of interbreeding.

@tylerhawley4012

3 ай бұрын

There’s multiple species in each brood, broods are only designated by the year that they emerge. Each of the species in the broods has a 13 year and 17 year variant, sort of like how color can vary in the same species of other animals.

@LowHang-nFruits

3 ай бұрын

Two different sub species

🎶13, 17, 220 years to go I wanna be a cicada Nothin' to do, nowhere to go-oh I wanna be a cicada🎶

@NataschaYT

3 ай бұрын

I’m trying to figure out the rhythm, what do you suppose it is?

@dracodragongirl

3 ай бұрын

@NataschaYT I Wanna be Sedated by the Ramones

@tacokoneko

3 ай бұрын

you are saying you want to be a literal blind bug in the dirt underground trapped there for 17 years and then when you come out you have to fly around and scream and then die after 72 hours

“To morph into adults scream have sex and die”🤣🤣🤣

Now all we need is Pennywise waking from his 27 year cycle at the same time 😅

Peter Gregory from his grave to redditors: Buy the sesame futures NOW!!

@kaseywahl

3 ай бұрын

Perfect reference!

@josephslade8163

3 ай бұрын

was looking for this comment 😊

@LarryFisherman5

3 ай бұрын

Was looking for this comment, cicadas will always immediately remind me of him 🥲

@stonystarkindustries

2 ай бұрын

hahaha thats immediately where my mind went . if only i had a compression algorithm startup i needed to keep alive

@memedumpster3684

19 күн бұрын

I was searching for this comment to upvote it or say it myself lol

I swear I hear this every single year and cicadas scream every summer where I live.

@maythesciencebewithyou

3 ай бұрын

That's because those that live where you live aren't 13 or 17 year cicada, but annual ones

@mrg0th1er83

3 ай бұрын

Some come out every year. But these 13 and 17 ones come in huge numbers all at once. So it is a lot louder than the annual ones.

@CheeseyBreezey

3 ай бұрын

Lucky bastard. There doesn't seem to be a lot of cicadas around me.

@thorr18BEM

3 ай бұрын

The ones that are in the ground for other periods of time do not sync to all emerge on the same year. There are 9-year species and 1-year species, etc, but the 13 and 17-year species are the ones that do flash mob.

@TuyenHuynh-cl7ec

3 ай бұрын

Cicadas news occur every year. Why do people care for a few special loud bugs?

Theoretically, Cicadas use the plantlife that they're buried next to, to tell when they're ready to leave, since there was a study of cicadas being transplanted from their birth hole into a differnet one that had the plant's metabolic rate sped up by 2 times, making the cicadas that survived the transplant emerge twice as fast, but I think that was published pretty recently

A study has shown that they seem to count seasonal cycles. They transplanted cicadas and trees into a controlled environment and simulated two years of seasonal changes in the span of one year, and while most cicadas died from the disturbance, the remainder emerged a year early.

If this happened in ancient times, people would think that Chicago had angered the gods.

@LastMinuteMinistry

3 ай бұрын

Bingo

Better call the Helldivers!

Wow, to think i discovered your channel with your Kailua review and now your are collaborating with the big dawgs. As a spanish speaking dude, the Estrella name is amazing and you nailed it with the tuning. Congrats man. 🎉

They think it has to do with the health of the tree they burrow under. They forced cinditions on a brood in an enclosed environment. Made the tree experience the 4 seasons faster and the brood emerged earlier than normal so its not an internal clock its dependant on trees somehow.

They been chillin' since 2006-2007

Amazing!! So excited to hear them this summer!

Yay trillions of tiny bugs get a once in a 221 year’s chance to deprive me from any sleep I was hoping to get.

There are so many reasons why cicadas are my favorite animal. The fact that they live for years underground only to speedrun life while constantly screaming is only one of them.

Those poor people that live in the overlapped area

@GoldBean2752

3 ай бұрын

I'm either on it or close to it.

"its gonna get loud" man with the starting bit I was out at this one lol

That's so much cooler knowing I am nowhere near where this is happening.

"eeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" -cicada

I have a feeling that this alignment will allow them to increase their range of activity because they will necessarily have to go farther than usual to get the same amount of food that they get along the normal cycle.

Every 23 year's Jeepers Creepers gets to feed for 1 day.

@jmrm01

3 ай бұрын

Fun movie! Could the monster just be a big cicada‽

@msaintjo

3 ай бұрын

@@jmrm01 The Cicada Creeper 👀

@JediLoreen

3 ай бұрын

Years is plural NOT possessive, like how you made it by adding the apostrophe. 🤔🤨🤦🤷🙄👎

@msaintjo

3 ай бұрын

@@JediLoreen thanks for the English lesson but you can go play grammar police somewhere else kiddo.

@GonzoTehGreat

3 ай бұрын

It's almost as if they evolved to avoid their own prey... 🤦 Yeah, horror movies don't make sense.

You didn't do your research. They don't scream. They flick their wings. I love the sound of them.

"Crawl out of the earth, morph into an adult, scream, have sex and die" relatable

And I live right in the overlap 😭

@kv4648

Ай бұрын

How loud?

I’m just hoping my dogs don’t eat too many.

@kmc6506

3 ай бұрын

They're probably more nutritious than most dog food from the store.

@markrowley8177

2 ай бұрын

Perfect food for dogs

*Loud insect moaning intensifies*

Those cicadas were so loud just here in Chicago but I can’t imagine what it would sound like hearing both

They basically adapted to their predators genetically in a complex pattern of rythm with full awareness of the effect. Incredible

@anthill1510

13 күн бұрын

That`s not how it works. The cicadas that had different rythms just died out and these ones survived because they weren`t eaten. It`s not planned.

@0r3z60

13 күн бұрын

@@anthill1510 thx

I remember doing a math question on this in school 🤣

In summer 1980 I was in Champaign, Illinois, and the number of cicadas went through the roof. They were everywhere, and their sound was everywhere. It was unbelievable.

It was amazing. Registered 95 decibels (as loud as a lawnmower). At one point, I had to vacuum the yard because the smell of the decaying cicada shells was overwhelming. Three garbage bags full!

I love the sound of cicadas, but boy, do they get loud. The can actually cause hearings loss if you are heading in the forest. You might want to get ear plugs if you live in the overlapping area.

Anyone hungry? plenty to eat!

"Scream, have sex, and die." God, I wish that were me.

The cicadas sync with the surrounding trees to count out the years

What's scary is that fungus infecting cicadas right now and what of it decimates their populations? Imagine the possible effects on the rest of the animal kingdom..

@ducksongfans

3 ай бұрын

What effects on the rest? No predator relies on them and they are not a predator to anything Plus they are definetly not being decimated

@axiezimmah

3 ай бұрын

The thing is fungi are great equalizers. The more cicadas there are. The more easily they spread the fungus around. The fewer there are, the less affected they'll be by fungus.

Got my earplugs ready for all this excessive noise coming our way!

"you can't eat us all" Area 51 speedrun based "you can't stop us all" -.-

I remember that summer. Can’t believe it’s been 17 years. I remember another kid showing me how if you pull certain legs off the cicada’s head would pop off, too. Crazy times.

They do this all the time, and yet people freak out about it every year.

@ghostboy4115

3 ай бұрын

There are a bunch of species that come out annually! Others come out every 2, 5, 7, or 13 years in the US ! It gets louder on those years and can potentially cause hearing damage so its good to remind the folks who don’t keep track to protect their hearing.

@ambustio9807

26 күн бұрын

" winter suprised the drivers yet again " - news in my country

Can the two broods interbreed? Do one of the dormancy times take president, or is it going to average out and those kids are screwed?

@theperfectmix2

3 ай бұрын

I also want to know the answer. Please tell me if you find out.

@JediLoreen

3 ай бұрын

Precedent, NOT "president". They aren't running for office. 🤨🤔🤦🤷🙄

@EeekiE

3 ай бұрын

I’d guess that if they can interbreed then the different periodicity genetics between them could be alleles of each other, which would mean any offspring would be one or the other, and not some halfway point between the two. Kind of like how if someone with blue eyes has a child with someone with brown eyes, the child doesn’t have blueishbrownish eyes.

It has been determined through experimentation that the cicadas use the seasonal changes of trees and plants to measure the change of time through their roots, which is how they determine when to emerge. Its a rather interesting study, they dug up some cicadas that were in hibernation and then buried them back next to a tree in an enclosed environment and used temperature control to simulate the tree going through its seasonal cycles a year faster than normal, and those cicadas woke up a year before the control cicadas.

Americans and Australians are living in hard mode when it comes to local wildlife

It’s so bad I can’t go outside anymore without a cicada landing on be there big,sticky,and ugly I hate them

13 and 17 are also when humans turn into adults and start screaming. 😂

Good luck with that apocalypse, if they won't worm Beelzebub I'll be disappointed.

My cat enjoyed this enormously.

-scream -have segg -dies with out elaborating

Thank you for showing where it would happen. I've known about it for a while, but i couldn't find info on what region the broods would emerge.

The next time they emerge, I will be world leader.

Honestly that description of cicadas + fighting wars is an accurate description of every other male in my family.

😂😂😂 "scream, have sex, and die" 2024 fav quote lol

nerds watched silicon valley and now they're tracking cicaidas like theyre peter theil

It's found out how they keep track. Here's explanation: TLDR: They know based on the sap of the trees they suck from the roots because the sap has different nutritional values based on season Scientists have discovered that cicadas burrow under ground and feed off the sap of trees in the micelian network by sucking from the roots. To determine how they know the time duration, they analyzed the sap of a control group of trees during the 4 seasons and they discovered that it has different properties and nutritional values depending on the season. To confirm this theory, they prepared a special greenhouse with a group of trees that was the experiment group, along with cicadas in the soil of the greenhouse, where those trees would experience a faster seasonal cycle, with each season being marked, and in fact, by the end, the cicadas did end up emerging way earlier than normal, but on the schedule of the shorter greenhouse seasons. And yes, the greenhouse group sap was analyzed along the way.

OMG! They're louder than the lawnmowers!

Those little bastards have been everywhere this summer

It's like the plague of locusts but louder

"Scream, have sex, and die" pretty much my life rn

"Morph into adults, scream, have sex and die" pretty good description of my 30 year marriage!

One hypothesis with some evidence is that they count the yearly seasonal cycle via tree root systems.

man I feel like every year something crazy happens to the cicadas. so much so i’m convinced they’re all annual cicadas and we’ve been overthinking them this entire tume

What's really crazy is you're only supposed to see them once every 13-17 years yet I see them around literally every single year.

@zackhiggins

13 күн бұрын

You only see *one* brood per year. There's 15 different broods like he said in the video.

The first 10 seconds went 0 to a 100 real damn quick

A resent research is pointing toward the timing being related to tree roots they are in.

They don't create those cycles. The ones without prime cycles got eaten by predators.

They did take a few into a lab and, in a controlled enviornment, mimiced the passing of the seasons conditions but fastworwarded, and those cicadas came out after the number of stimulated tears rather than actual years

Funnily enough, that is also why I'm emerging from the ground

I live basically right where your arrow pointed. It's not as "magical" as you'd think 😂

It's happening, my trees have been pulsating for days.

I didn’t realize that cicadas were better than me at math, go figure.

I live in the overlap area and it was a much anticipated event that didn't really amount to much. It was a bit loud for a while, but not much beyond normal. Somehow they still know how to avoid each other.