And some people even called the police to complain about the noise. No joke.

@aaronthenorm5400

17 күн бұрын

Another scathing indictment of our education system. No joke!

@Sheilawisz

17 күн бұрын

Wow! Really? I knew that in the United States people call the police for any little thing, but calling the cops on the cicadas is too much!

@Michiganian8

16 күн бұрын

It is very loud

@DramaIslandX38

15 күн бұрын

wasn't it in south carolina

@meghansullivan6812

15 күн бұрын

wtffffff

😳 17 years living underground is a long time. . wonders of nature.

We are currently in the beginning of two brood emergences in central Illinois. They are absolutely everywhere. On our trees, all over our yard, on our basketball hoop, on our parked cars, on our wooden swing set, in the garage, on our mailbox, on the house, and occasionally on my wife who proceeds to get terrified.

@greghackstaff217

4 күн бұрын

Are they destroying crops?

@1998232v6

4 күн бұрын

@@greghackstaff217 no, they are just flying all over the place and being annoying in general to be honest.

@theelectrichobo829

4 күн бұрын

They live on tree sap not crops​@greghackstaff217

@AK.Carcajou

3 күн бұрын

You’ll be fine. They’ll all be gone in a couple weeks. Use that time to look cicadas up online, or in books. This is nothing new.

@mastiffpeople4868

3 күн бұрын

Same here, getting on my nerves

Nashville has trees everywhere. The perfect breeding ground for them

You know that strange buzzing sound you hear in the background of favorite anime? Those insect sounds are cicadas. Japan has about a dozen of species and they are known to spend anywhere from 3 to 6 years underground but they come out every year. We don't have any periodic leaping swarms. The number of swarms depends on factors like weather and temperature. They're usually heard annually from June to September.

@Hannari-xt6nr

22 сағат бұрын

True and they all seem to congregate around my house in Japan and i absolutely hate it. The sound is unbearable and it makes the heat feel even worse than it is. And because there are at least 10 species here, we have 10 different sounds. I like the Higurashi because they start making noise at night and the sound is relaxing rather than irritating. But all the others are a nightmare. What do not like about cicadas in Japan is that they attract not just bird which crap everywhere but also other insects like the dreadful giant Japanese hornets or wasps Oosuzumebachi, who also congregate around my house and terrify me, but (the disgusting tho9ugh harmless) huge japanese roaches which eat the dead cicadas and where you have roaches you have spiders big enough to eat them and you finally have the worst of all, the ones that eat the roaches and the spiders and can send me to the hospital and my pets to the morgue, the nightmarish japanese centipede, the Mukade. Apparently ellusive in Japan, probably because they all live underneath my house and all over my garden and sometimes inside my house. I would love to just have to deal with cicadas, and i used to love them as a child when i lived in the south of France and there were no roaches or gigantic spiders and hornets and centipedes. But now, in spite of all my love for Japan, every summer i curse the day i moved into a house surrounded with nature (even though i am still in Tokyo). I am so scared of the insects that i am no longer scared when i see japanese weasels on my house or badgers in my garden and even twice monkeys on the roof (In TOKYO).

I remember a french tourist asking me what the noise was, his little mind was blowing when I told him it was an insect

i love the way their chorus converges and expands until the sound seems to come from everywhere at once

@SomewhereInTime5059

3 күн бұрын

I've noticed that, too. So fascinating and they are all in sync with each other. Very fascinating. The wonders of Nature. 😉

Being Out of sight doesn’t mean nonexistence. Rather it’s a time of growth. Sometimes this happens to us in life🤔 , out of sight with no visible accomplishment. That could be the time of growth like cicadas😊

@alipapa

18 күн бұрын

I love your comment. Nature teaches us a lot about life and ourselves. Cyclical flow of the seasons. Flexible rigidity of the trees. Lessons go on.

@noreengulalai6325

18 күн бұрын

@alipapa Thank you, very true there is so much to learn from nature besides the mesmerising beauty in it. Also a way of healing.🍀

@meghansullivan6812

15 күн бұрын

AW

I got to see the total eclipse on April 8 and then the cicada emergence on May 8. I feel lucky.😁I know some people don't like bugs, but I find cicadas to be adorable. The night of May 8, we had a huge thunderstorm. When I got to the office the next morning, there were hundreds of these little guys taking shelter near the front door to my office because it's under a covered patio.

People who live there shouldn't be annoyed by them. Y'all are so lucky to experience this! Wish they didn't take so many years to emerge, they're such interesting and cool insects, love their sounds

@maxheadroomone

17 күн бұрын

It's a strange sound; sounds like a pulley coming loose on your engine, a drone following you, a jet taking off, and a machine running at a plant.... I had to pull over to figure which of those things it was, (because it was so LOUD), just to find out it was coming from the woods, I thought the apocalypse had started for a moment. 😂

@ScorpioBornIn69

16 күн бұрын

I lived in the Chicaog area in the suburbs and still remember the 1990 outbreak and they were loud during the day time for several weeks.

@patreekotime4578

15 күн бұрын

There are thousands of species of Cicada and at least one of those emerge every year. Most cicadas are inaccurately named "Annual cicadas" and they spend much shorter periods underground, from 2 to 5 years, like fireflies. "Periodic cicadas" just spend longer underground. But basically every year there are overlapping emergences from different species or from different broods of the same species.

@deadwingdomain

14 күн бұрын

🤨 In no way are they a delight. They are a plague, if you ask me.

@SJLamb-te3dt

13 күн бұрын

They are cool but they chew up trees so bad that sometimes they die. Three years ago we had a cicaida event and one of our japanese maples died. Our others had long open wounds on every branch that was as thick or thicker than a pencil and our dogwoods are still needing supplemental water and fertilizer to get their previous strength back. Ornamental trees are so expensive. They are cool bugs but the do cause some pretty expensive damage.

It's never a good idea to give a cicada a 10-year amortized loan.

@The72Nana

17 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

@maxheadroomone

17 күн бұрын

underrated lol

@Kane0123

15 күн бұрын

Came looking for this

One of my most cherished childhood memories is me failing asleep during dusk in a hammock while hearing the cicadas singing in the distance, to this day, hearing them relaxes me to the point I begin feeling sleepy.

I’m hearing them in the Raleigh NC area; there’s actually two distinct sounds, one of them sounds like an industrial type of humming sound-the other is the insect sound

Cicadas are the symbol of summer in Italy. I love them ❤

@Kenan-Z

19 күн бұрын

The same here in Türkiye. Most people detest their songs but I love their chorus as background noise. 🙂

@mimim8532

19 күн бұрын

And in Tokyo Japan

@pluffer241

18 күн бұрын

And in Australia. I adore it when they sing loudly.

@LayllasLocker

18 күн бұрын

In all of the Mediterranean. Love them. ♥

@holysong2099

17 күн бұрын

You guys have symbols for seasons?

Very very cool. Right here where I live in Durham, NC USA the whole area sounds like Jet engine. Which is like music to our ears that we can only enjoy every 13 or 17 years or in this case in 2024 every 221 years.

Thanks. I'm in England and have always been interested in these insects...

@erikgilson1687

13 күн бұрын

In America we put them in our armpits and call them Pit Squawkers

The next common emergence for 13 or 17 years cycles will occur after 221 years. Reason being 13 x 17= 221 which is the least common multiple for prime numbers 13 and 17. Last common emergence was in 2024-221 = 1803

I've never seen the smaller black cicadas, with red eyes, until now. Where i live Mississippi, its always the bigger green cicadas, and they are alot louder. First ever seeing the black cicadas and they are everywhere.

I am in Concord NC and it has been amazing this year, so loud and just awesome. Glad to be able to experience it.

@bananadragon1111

14 күн бұрын

I’m in concord as well but I haven’t heard much sound at all.

@matticus6339

12 күн бұрын

@@bananadragon1111 Ive noticed not everywhere is as bad but my yard is SUPER loud...love it.

I remember when I was little, about 52 years ago, cicadas were literally everywhere. I loved catching them! They were green in color, mostly!

I live in SC. Over the weeks, the amount of them was the most disturbing part. Noticed all the other insects, bees, wasps, and mosquitoes, were rarely in sight.

Did he just say 96 decibels? Wow... I'm really glad I live on the West Coast.

Living out in Arizona it’s been a while since I heard one. Thanks for the audio clip at the end.

Interesting that 13 and 17 are both prime numbers. The Cicadas clearly have evolved to avoid something as these two numbers are not divisible but by themselves. What is that thing they are trying to avoid is the question

@LandersWorkshop

4 күн бұрын

Lucky years for them maybe?

@chrishill5511

14 сағат бұрын

I believe it is to avoid predator population cycles. If their cycle is a prime number, there won't be smaller factors of that number that align with predator cycles.

@Garcwyn

14 сағат бұрын

@@chrishill5511 or they don’t want to coincide with each other to avoid resource competition a/o scarcity. They do but every 221 years

It was pretty quiet & normal on the cicada front in New Zealand this year. They can really get loud on occasion tho, so can relate to this story!

@elifuentes7070

17 күн бұрын

Are cicadas in New Zeland periodical?

When the summer arrives the Cicadas start their symphonies. Love it. ❤ Here in Europe its normal. In Africa and many more countries where I had the honor and luck to live in, it has been always magical to hear them. Here in the South of France as well its magical. Just love Nature. 👼💙🙏🥰✨️🍀🦋🕊

@WanderlustGoGo

15 күн бұрын

I live in South Africa and sometimes it can be a nuisance ❤

I just recently got into field recording as a hobby (audio recording nature) and im so excited to record these guys

Sir, Thank you for the information on the cicadas. I found it helpful and knowledgeable.

Caught them all the time growing up, every year. Still will catchem an lettem go, always loved the buzzing. Where i live now they are bigger and louder and sounds like my skillsaw going off when they are near.

I have always enjoyed the song of the Cicadas. When I hear their song in summer, I always feel at one with this beautiful earth 🌎.

They are everywhere here in Nashville

@_MORGANIME_

3 күн бұрын

They are!!!! Worst first date ever 😂… I’m not going outside again this year!

Due to my location, I get only 5 and 7 year cicadas. Nowhere near the noise the upcoming periodical cicada invasion will make, but to me it’s a sign of summer. I collect the empty casings from my tree trunks and make funky arrangements. Add a picture box frame and you’ve got an interesting work of folk art. Sort of like the “lemonade when you’ve got lots of lemons” thing. I get requests! Old hippy living the life, lol! 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦

@meghansullivan6812

15 күн бұрын

they signify summer to me too!!! i see my future in ur comment hehehe

So do the two separate broods ever mate/interbreed in the once in 221 years dual emergence? If so do the offspring follow the 17 or 13 year cycle?

@friedrichschiller3012

17 күн бұрын

Interesting question.

@LilyoftheValley408

16 күн бұрын

I think the two broods are in different regions. I’m not sure any of them overlap.

@meghansullivan6812

15 күн бұрын

@@LilyoftheValley408 yes i think this is the case

@JS-zb1vv

14 күн бұрын

@@LilyoftheValley408they overlap in central Illinois in a small part.

@quitlife9279

12 күн бұрын

It's a crappy uninformative video but there are actually 7 species of periodical cicadas, and they live in different areas. So no i don't think they are capable of interbreeding.

Another part of why they are unique is that they they are a great food supply for birds, they are completely harmless to people and trees and they are absolutely beautiful creatures.

@DickVanWrinkle

Күн бұрын

They are actually not harmless to trees, especially young trees. They feed on the fluid in the xylem of woody plants and can disrupt or even kill small trees

A lot of natural events this year Total solar eclipse, northern lights and double cicadas emergence

I experienced the emergence of a similar animal here in Sri Lanka, during the weekend trip last week…

I'm in central North Carolina and I've only seen one type this season. Are there only certain areas where you can find both breeds emerging together?

Since I watched this documentary in Netflix, Life on Earth, i was so amazed the life of cicadas. why 17 years? no one knows.

I once found a cicada inside my shoe, and I reacted as if the girl from The Ring came out of the tv

Contrary to popular opinion I actually like the sound of the cicadas. It reminds me of summer time. It is just really annoying to see them everywhere. Especially considering the fact that I HATE bugs. Luckily for me they are harmless and usually stay near trees so you’re not just fighting a swarm everytime you want to get groceries 😂

Welcome to the world young cicadas! I hope you enjoy shrieking to your hearts content 🪲

We have them in Australia. When I was at school, kids would catch them and play with them and carry them around. They are definitely the sound of summer. If the summer isnt hot enough, they won't emerge. Some summers have been too wet and too cool and the cicadas didnt appear -- I missed them.

I'm from Chicago and I'm waiting for it 😂

Bro this sounds like jeepers creepers lol

@LOLO-jj2by

6 күн бұрын

LoL funny you said that. my son and I said the same thing. They look like little jeepers creepers, Creepers come every 23 years to eat LoL

Fr a couple days ago one of em got in my house and it screams around 3 feet near me. Absolute nightmare fuel of a sound.

We hear them in late July in Buffalo, NY

Oh shoot. I don’t live Illinois. Now may never be able to experience that once in a lifetime experience.

I am curious. If cicadas emerge from under ground why are their shells (not sure the technical term) above ground and not below ground?

Is there a way to differentiate between 13 and 17 year cicadas? or do they all look the same?

Man, nature keeps on amazing us! For the unknown it might be just nuisance but once you get to know about the reason behind it, it just makes sense

Periodical cicadas are awesome, and it’s cool to have a dual emergence with a little geographical overlap. But the reporting on this phenomenon is incredibly frustrating. A dual emergence is not that rare! THIS PARTICULAR brood of 17-year cicadas, and THIS PARTICULAR brood of 13-year cicadas will only sync up once every 17*13=221 years. But almost every year, there is a brood of 17-year cicadas (13 broods, so 13 out of every 17 years). And there are three extant broods of 13-year cicadas. Every possible pairing of broods from each group will have a dual emergence once in each 221-year cycle. That’s 39 years out of 221, or 3 every 17 years-so about once every five or six years, we get two broods syncing up. To suggest that a dual emergence is happening for the first time since 1803 is extremely misleading. This has been your cicada pedantry for the day. Thank you.

Just like Peter Gregory predicted in Silicon Valley. Time to buy Indonesian sesame seed options to profit off of Burger King's sesame seed demand during this dual cicada emergence.

We have the two broods here, if I'm not mistaken. The Pharaoh and the Cassini subspecies.

I wonder if the cycling also is the same in Europe? I would love to hear them again! Greetings from Spain.

So who’s gonna be President in 2245?

@Colleenrefine

19 күн бұрын

The antichrist will rule this world soon Then after the Great Tribulation is over Jesus Christ will be ruling on earth for 1,000 years Only Jesus saves ❤ John 3:3

@leakybasementrecords987

19 күн бұрын

Cyborg trump

@Patel-pl4nd

18 күн бұрын

@@Colleenrefine🪔🌹🙏🏽

@Hvacmaniac97

18 күн бұрын

Your mom

@Hvacmaniac97

18 күн бұрын

Your mom

But this time the snakes came out to feed too..... !!! 😮

there will be good crops next year 👍

They might look around or watch the news and say nevermind

My knowledge on Cicadas is very limited, but I wonder if there are external cues which forced them to emerge. Seems obvious, but I am observing Cicadas in India too emerging and flooging the trees in big numbers. Cicadas emerged in USA, India and probably elsewhere in the world. I wonder if the external cues put them into some sort of synchrony.

Wonderful Nature.

Bugs living more than 17 years but dogs and Cats dont live more than 15 years.

Yes they are Very Loud and it can get extremely annoying Very Quick!

They are not bad or as loud as the large katydids, just more of the cicadas. You don't even know wtf is making the katydid sound, if it is mechanical or organic till you go outside and the sound seems to come from all directions.

What's equally strange is how this coincided with the 2024 Solar Eclipse.............

@WeeWeeJumbo

16 күн бұрын

solar eclipses happen all the time. there’s just usually no land under their shadow

A lot of those clips were not periodical cicadas. All seven species of periodical cicadas are orange and black with red eyes.

Is this a global emergence? Will it be emulated in Australia’s cicada season?

There were thousands in my school yard in Pennsylvania in 1953. But they were incorrectly called '17 year locusts.'

I’m confused by this. Here in Florida the cicadas are a regular thing every year. Just don’t hear them in winter time. I heard them tonight. Is this unusual?

@WeeWeeJumbo

16 күн бұрын

there are multiple different generations of cicadas on prime-numbered cycles

@KimClark-1

16 күн бұрын

@@WeeWeeJumboI would love for you to explicate. Here in Florida we get cicadas every year. And what’s really cool is that their song rhythm varies with location. In south Florida they sounded very percussive like a rhythm section. On and on with a fabulous, varied rhythm. In Central Florida they tend to do a three-part singing where one cicada sings, a second follows with the same phrase, then a third follows the same way. All until sun set when it is loudest. Sun down, they’re done.

@RepublicofE

16 күн бұрын

@@KimClark-1 There are annual cicadas that come out every year. They're a different species from periodicals.

@KimClark-1

16 күн бұрын

@@RepublicofEExcellent! I did not know that. Thanks for sharing that. 🙏😎

Both broods are not in the same area but they overlap Middle Illinois.

happens every year in NZ

i think they count through the cycle of the seasons

Well im in north central Illinois, nothing yet.

So are cicadas one of the longest living insects?

nice video

This video is somewhat misleading. A group of cicadas will emerge basically every year. There are cicadas that spend shorter times underground, from 2 to 5 years and these are given the misnomer "annual cicadas". The ones that emerge 13 or 17 years are the "periodic cicadas"... but really they are ALL periodic. And most years will see several different broods of different species emerge. The unique thing about this year is the emergence of these *specific* broods.

Do they die after they come up ? Or do they go back underground to have the babies? So weird

I remember cicadas being green and larger not these tiny orange insects

0:10 - Nice background photo of Shakti Kapoor there!

@Frownbrows

15 күн бұрын

Haha, it's John Lennon 🥸

@Red-Red-Red-Red

15 күн бұрын

@@Frownbrows google Shakti Kapoor

@Frownbrows

15 күн бұрын

@@Red-Red-Red-Red I know Shakti Kapoor 😏. I am from India.

This video wasn't very informative, looked on the wiki for these cicadas, and tit seems like there are different broods emerging every single year, only that the larvae live a long time, and not actually the species only being seen once 13 or 17 years. Can any north Americans confirm?

Yeah but the cicadas this season are attempting to take over my pear tree. I don’t want them to lay eggs on the branches and tunnel underneath this particular tree because it is healthier this year and starting to bear fruit 😢

But here's the question that has me curious: can enough overlapping populations of assorted singing insects interfere in technology signaling?

Why do they stay underground so long? What purpose does it serve.

@LandersWorkshop

4 күн бұрын

Gathering their energies and powers.

Grate

So what yall gonna be doing in 2245?

Loud flying sky crabs

“Just eight weeks,” that noise for eight weeks is miserable.

@phillynch4971

18 күн бұрын

I have a trip booked to Chicago area for June. I'm kind of concerned. Should I cancel?

@foreverkyle2266

18 күн бұрын

I love their noise!

@BonQeeqeethe3rd320

14 күн бұрын

I can live with that noise I’ve heard it for so much that I’m basically used to it at this point

Some of the images are Tibicen, the dog day cicada, not the periodical cicada or Magicicada. Come on BBC, do your homework.

Weird nature

Better a flood of cicadas than a centipede stampede. 😀

I’m reminded of Kat Williams saying that everything is coming out in 2024;😅

I feel like every year for the past 5 years I've heard this... maybe it's th Mandela effect

I'm sorry, why does it take them 17 years to grow up?! The same time as a human??? I mean a 17 year old bug? What?! They normally last like two weeks, how did this even happen? Evolution got some explaining to do.

KZread channel: Archaix

I remember seeing (well i heard it first) one on a tree in my friend's yard in Janet Rd, Bordeaux in Johannesburg, South Africa. but as i remember it was a solitary fellow. but all on his own he managed to make an absolutely brain wrenching din. and coincidence or not... but her was clasped to an ornamental MAPLE tree trunk. I wonder if that had anything to do with how he got here...🤔🤔

Cicadas are good eatin I heard ?

Imagine how noisy us humans are to bugs , people are dumber than beavis and buthead 😂

Yup. Two completely different sets (13 yr and 17 yr IIRC). Mankind is also SUUUPER LUCKY that they ain't crop-wreckin' locusts.

Can we eat them?

The sound here in west central Alabama is errie and deafening 😅 never heard cicadas make this type of sound before and so constant! These sound crazy as hell. These definitely are the normal year around cicadas🤙🏽 awsome!!!!

so they're real life nidhogg gnawing on tree roots