Why Do Cicadas Stay Underground for So Long?
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A cicada asked me the opposite question "why do humans spend their entire lives above ground, but only when they die go under ground?" I said "because we don't want them stinking up the place." The cicada said "Same for us! But we like to party before we die."
How would the cicadas say same for us when it pertains to stinking up the place? Because they all die on the surface and begin to rot doing that exact thing
@@R.Rileys-BION_Patreon-Podcast we live above ground they live below ground we bury our dead below ground they bury their dead above ground
Idk if it’s too early in the morning for me to be trying to figure this comment out, but can somebody please explain the last line ? What does this mean ?
🤣😂👏🏽
@@zoehicks880 We live above ground, and bury our dead underground. Cicadas, living underground, do the opposite
Cicada: I exist to be born, eat, sleep, play loud music, have sex, make kids, and die.
Me: Ah we are not that different you and I.
Yep. Sums it up pretty well, except we went stupid and invented jobs.
@InterstellarKev 😂👍🏼🙃
What is sex? I’m a redditor
This comment format is quite uncreative.
This comment is spectacularly underrated
Cicada season is the most relaxing time of year for me, they produce a constant white noise that blots out my tinnitus and lets me actually get some sleep.
Hahaha, you're the only other person I've ever heard mention that! It is so true. I've got tinnitus, constant, 24/7, both ears. I have trouble falling asleep and staying asleep. As a result I usually get 2 or 3 two hour sleep stints a night. So, I'm tired all the time. However, on a summer afternoon when then cicadas are singing, If I'm actively doing something, it's hard for me to stay awake. I learned this one summer, fishing from a dock on a canal. I was sitting on the edge, my feet hanging over, fishing pole in hand, thousands of cicadas singing away. Next thing I knew, I was in the water. It took a few similar incidents before I realized what was happening. It was about 30 years ago that I made this discovery. In the past I've mentioned it a few times and usually got confused looks as a response. It's oddly satisfying to encounter someone else familiar with the phenomenon. 🙂
May I suggest th-cam.com/video/xj7ylgj2JlQ/w-d-xo.html for the 12 year or 16 years gap in your region?
Huh. Sometimes I listen to a recording of night insects to help me fall asleep easier when stressed. It helps me for similar reasons
I have the same issue... got myself a white noise machine off amazon for my bedroom, makes rainfall/water sounds. It's great but I have trouble falling without it.
you wont think that when theres 1 right outside your bedroom window
Hearing locusts singing in the trees takes me back 40 years to my childhood and the good ol' hot summer days
I'm in south east Alabama, I go outside and it sounds like a anime establishing shot. 😃🇺🇸
I'm not alone when I hear the same thing up north 🤣
Lol 🍻 same here in North Carolina
I'm in Mobile and they're driving me crazy this year 😭😭
Code Geass' first episode did one like that :P
Yeah, when he said they were gone, i was like- not where im at
I live in New York, which has annual cicadas but no periodicals. I finally experienced Brood 10 this year when visiting my daughter, who recently moved to Maryland. Unbelievable! I finally realized what the call of the giant ants in the classic movie "Them!" really is. My daughter had just gotten a puppy as a gift for her mother, and the puppy gorged herself on cicadas in the yard. Now she expects every insect she sees to taste like cicadas, and she's repeatedly disappointed. 😂
Food for birds and others, we needed that.
As a Marylander, I just experienced my first round of them, and hope they go extinct before I reach my second time. During the summer and during this brood of the little flying devils, you better have good air conditioning because there is NO driving with the windows down.
Yes John lad
I distinctly remember a brood hatching in upstate NY in 2013, this brood was much much smaller than that one.
@@navytackedbay they are feeding birds and other animals, essential for establishing wildlife in areas. Wish all the areas got them. Would guarantee many animals and birds stable environment.
Hunting for cicada shells as a kid and the fact they inspired my favorite Ghost type in Pokemon made them one of my favorite insects.
And still one of the best off meta anchors for so many off the wall challenge play throughs too!
Shedninja!
Facts
I love them. This year I live near a forest and can watch the Wild Turkeys Feast upon them !
We used them in folk traditions for beauty. I think they're cool.
Cicadas were absolutely INSANE in NOVA this year.
Earlier this Summer, you couldn't walk out your door without them landing on you. They were leaving their exo skeletons absolutely everywhere, swarming trees, bushes, cars..and insanely loud. I'm originally from NorCal, so being around the massive swarms this year, so crazy!
Biden: The plane isn't going
Cicada: I can make it sound like it's going if that helps
lmao
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This is the funniest comment that I have read in months.
@@StephenJohnson-jb7xe I've made better but I appreciate that you enjoyed it :P
@@marlenasopi2469 wat
I'm in north Texas. We get cicadas every year. They're the sound of summer... it's like the trees are screaming.
Are you sure those aren't tree frogs? Those can be deafening.
@@tophers3756 Pretty sure... I've never seen tree frogs around, but I've seen plenty of cicada shells left after they shed and holes in the ground where they came out.
Same here. Dallas born and raised... I never knew most cicada species were "periodical." I'm used to waking up one day and hearing the chorus of cicadas mating outside my home
St Louis - We have both the annuals and Great Southern brood (XIX). As to North Texas - part of it gets the Kansas Brood (IV) in addition to the annuals.
@@jonnunn4196 we in the Lou are so lucky! No, this isn't sarcasm, I legit enjoyed going to TGP or Powder Valley and listening to the wildlife.
These things can be absolutely defening in their song....glad you covered this one whistle boi,it's a story that is particularly relevant to me, considering that I live in an area where these things obviously flourish
My dad was not given a middle name at birth, and so when I was a kid he asked me to give him a middle name and I picked cicada.... He's an animal loving Buddhist and a very eccentric character so it truly suits him perfectly....
🖤🖤Fraser Cicada George🖤🖤
I live in the Midwest while he and my mum moved back to New Zealand, our homeland after I grew up....so recounting this story truly brings joy to my heart.
What a beautiful gift you gave to your father.
@@sallyrutledge4726 🖤🫧
@@sallyrutledge4726 🙏 thanks girl. i love the cassowary in your pfp btw
Is he a loud sap sucker too? I kid.
Summer just isn't the same here in Arizona without hearing the constant screams of horny bugs.
OBJECTIVE: SURVIVE EL HORNIO
You know summer has arrived in AZ when you the cicadas
One of the worst thing bout living here
What do you expect you chose to live with sand in your crotch for no payoff.
@@tylermcnally8232 🤣🤣
Yeah I was a kid the last time this happened so I didn’t remember how crazy it was. And this year I went on a two week vacation when they started emerging. When we were crossing the river back into MD, i said it sounded like someone nearby was having car trouble. Seconds later these huge bugs started hitting my windshield, and I made the same face as Ron Weasley when he hit the whomping willow with his car. Terrified. 😂
First time I encountered them was when I was a mall cop going to Ole Miss. One of the little SOB;s was screaming while I made my rounds on foot at night. Nearly pooped myself.
My dad went out to yell at my brother to not send giant clumps of grass clippings in the street while mowing the lawn. He yelled exactly half his name and a cicada flew in his mouth. It was the only time I have seen my dad freak out like a 13 year old girl who got gum in her hair, and vomit as a finisher. He sat on a chair spitting on the ground and told everyone to get the hell away from him for hours. I got a six pack in abs laughing so hard.
@@SeptimusCain that’s so funny! I had something similar happen this year! My mom and sister kept telling me it wasn’t going to be that bad, but I kept saying it would be because they’re big dumb bugs that fly everywhere and I was afraid they’d fly into my hair/face/mouth. Guess who got a face full of cicada this year? Not me! But everyone else in my family did and they screamed while I laughed
where I live you here them all time except in the winter
@@SeptimusCain I'll bet you did. 😁🤣👍
It's an amazing sight. Ive lived in Virginia my whole life and one day when I was 17 yrs old I woke up and these things were everywhere and were screaming all over....it was totally bazaar,I'm now 36 yrs old and have seen this a time or two since then. Absolutely incredible though
I live in Virginia and I have a roommate who moved here from California. One day in the summer we were sitting outside and he kept asking "what is that noise" and I couldn't figure out what he was talking about. Turned out he was asking about the cicada noise as he had never heard that in California and I was so clueless because I had tuned it out from hearing it all my life.
So if the cicada air force has a motto, it's "they can't kill us all!"
Zerg rush for survival!
For real!
But we're only good for a few weeks.
It's amazing how localized they are. Where I live they clogged our lives for over a month, but 20 minutes south, they barely got any.
It could be the soil. One reason these cicadas don't live up north, besides temperature, is the sandy soil left behind by the North American glacial sheet. Not knowing where you are, my guess is there may be different soils nearby, which affects what host plants and trees are available.
@@JohnDrummondPhoto we get them up here in Canada. Cicadas aren't even a rarity here.
@@PhoenixHinds here in New York, we have annual cicadas of several different species. They're buzzing outside now. But the 13-year and 17-year species discussed in this video don't live north of the upper Midwest of the US. Nor do they live in NY, so I never saw them until I visited my daughter in Maryland this year. The periodical cicadas swarm and buzz in numbers that have to be seen and heard to be believed. Plus, they emerge earlier in the year. They started in May and by the end of July they were gone.
Whats crazy is some years theres heeeeaaaps where I live then other years you barely see them
I've personally never heard these ever in Massachusetts. They're a yearly occurrence now that I live in South Korea though
I love cicadas. Their song is the sound of late summer for me, and they’re docile, handleable, and harmless.
and edible!
I grew up in Central Texas. When I moved to Japan the main thing I missed were the screaming trees. I LOVE the sound of cicadas. It just isn't summer without screaming trees.
What part of Japan? Cicadas are pretty common in many parts of the Japanese countryside.
@@bmac4 Agreed. The Kanto region (just outside Tokyo) where I currently live, annual cicadas are a common sight (and sound) during summer.
....now I have an idea for a horror movie about the emergence of 1,000,000-year cicadas
I'd watch that. Seems interesting
They go down 2000 meters instead of 2 feet
And they eat everything plant and animal
And they weigh a pound each
1,000,003 years
Cicada's characteristic sound is my 3rd favorite sound in my world, but we only have annual cicadas in Greece. I'm guessing that if we were experiencing periodical cicadas in the billions I wouldn't have the same opinion lol
First 2?!
Please, we need to hear these sounds.
@@jamesayers8075 nails on chalkboard and crying baby
@@ojaededajuice I prefer the fork on a plate for first but yours is respectable.
Honestly its never really bothered me before, bugged me a little bit this last time, but mostly it blended w regular ones which are the sound of summer in the south.
Caveat: ok, gotta admit this year was the first time i ever heard them sound like a house alarm in the mornings. I actually just chalked it up to a creek alarm in the area till i noticed the range, and saw articles about people calling 911.
17 years ago was even crazier. It was when the 17, 13, and yearly cicadas all lined up. They were absolutely everywhere. Like covered literally everything.
I didn't even see any this time. I remember being a kid and they were everywhere. Every tree had tons of shells on it.
@@ericbogar9665 yep they were everywhere
I was in Maryland when that happened. Every car that was parked on the road the day they emerged had shells on it sides and the noise was almost unbearable.
Yall know they come out every year rite....
@@barrygordon1173, that's what he's saying. The ones that come out every year joined up with the ones that don't, hence the unsually high numbers for a single season.
I live in Southeast Texas and I couldn't imagine a summer without them. When I was a kid they used to annoy me, but now I love them. I find the songs a relaxing & somewhat comforting.
Hope someone records the Brood and uploads it to TH-cam !
I live in Japan. When summer rolls around, they're just everywhere (just like in anime shows). My eldest dog loves catching and eating them. They're flying shrimp, for her.
How do they get along with those murder hornets? Is there like anime style battles all the time between them?
@@R.Rileys-BION_Patreon-Podcast Haven't seen any murder hornets yet, knock on wood. I hope to never to see them either!
@@arcturionblade1077 they're no good. I had to one encounter with one of them. It was carrying a monarch butterfly. My window was down and I was the passenger and we hit that bee with the back side of the window seal and it smacked it as hard as I've ever heard and flew across the front of my face and landed in the middle console while still holding the monarch butterfly and I had never heard of murder hornets at that point so I freaked out like it was the end of time and open the door at 64 mph screaming stop the car stop the car stop the car because it was still alive. Probably got PTSD from that crap. LOL
My dog is scared of them....She hasn't figured out they're tasty... LOL
Yesterday, my boyfriend sent me a video titled "why is your mouth making that noise?" Turns out, a dog had a cicada in it's mouth. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time
My eldest dog loves catching and eating cicadas too. They're flying shrimp, for her. She also likes chomping on the little molted shells they leave behind.
That’s one of my favorite videos!! I laugh every time!
Nothing looks more guilty than a guilty dog
The face the dog makes gets me every time
One of my cats got one that flew in the house. He chased it then snapped it right up. I freaking heard it buzzing in his mouth and even as he swallowed it. As for kitty, he was thoroughly pleased with his quarry.
Having lived in Arkansas for most of my life, I look forward to them coming through. Fascinating creatures with the best bug sound next to crickets
I'm always glad that hear the crickets. Finally a relief from the heat. Fall will come soon.
The best bug sound is silence because that means the bugs are dead. Like in winter time when we also get the free air conditioning.
I Agree !
Being as we are technically still at the tail end of the ice age (glaciers still covering the poles and enough sub polar regions to meet the definition) and the fact that they emerge annually in droves, I think there is much more we don’t know about cicadas than what we do know.
Listening to the cicadas is one of my favorite parts of Summer in the South.
OH Yes..... I grew up in Michigan but live in Tennessee now. I love their sound... hope someone records them for a looping, anti anxiety audio !
6:35 That moment when he says “predator sedation” instead of “predator satiation”. 😂😂😂
Sedated. Satiated. Same net result.
I remember hearing these dude nearly every summer when I was a kid. I remember finding their shells all over the place. I grew up in a small town called Snyder, we lived in a valley area where the tornados never really bothered us. Their sound would be especially present when the sky turned green (meaning a storm was brewing)
I live in one of those places where the calls get deafening when the 17 year cicadas come out. It's loud even without them, but when they join in It's really incredible how loud they are.
I find the sound of cicadas to be extraordinarily comforting.
Same. To me it's like the soundtrack of childhood.
Maybe the non-cyclical ones. When you're in the middle of a massive brood, it's horrifying. One time I was driving into WV, unknowingly entering a cicada swarm. Despite having the stereo cranked, I heard a rather unpleasant screeching noise. I pulled off the highway, thinking thinking my car had a belt slipping. But when I opened the door and the horrendous screech go WAY louder, I realized what it really was.
Yeah, me too.
Love to go to sleep to their noise…and I have lots of trees. Always find their “skeleton” on the pine trees on my front acre.
@@ressljs
Speak for yourself. I love insects and I can’t wait to go out cicada-collecting.
In early may of 2021, a red eyed army emerged trillions strong crawled out from their underground lairs. DANNY, GET BACK IN THAT DAMNED BASEMENT.
@@marlenasopi2469 Me: report
You:
@@memejeff I just did too.😀
@@PhoenixHinds Very nice :D
@@marlenasopi2469 I have no idea what your comment meant but other people took it offensively so I assume you said some nasty s*** in Russian
The "DANNY" you seak of is no more. There is only the hive...
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.
These guys are the punctuation marks of my life, LOL. I've enjoyed them at age 11, 28 and this year 45. 🥰 I hope to see them again.
Climate change scam
wait you actually dont see them yearly??
@@funky555 Nope. There are some cicadas (usually green & black) that are on cycles of 1 year or 3 years, but Eastern periodical cicadas are every 17 years. They're smaller & orange & black, with red eyes. And they emerge in EPIC fashion LOL.
@@funky555the annual cicadas that are all around the US are a different species, and the quantities during broods are very memorable. Annual provide a nice backdrop sound, the 17 year cycles swarm, cover entire bushes and trees, and are absolutely defeaning. Almost all the trees here end up with thick piles with hundreds of cicadas around the bases of the tree. It's a memorable event when they overwhelm us lol
I know... now, at 76, I must really enjoy and record this brood... they will probably be my last. So I intend to bask in their presence !
At the tender age of 64 it looks like it's my last head splitting meeting with these way cool insects. When they first take flight it looks like the "Battle of Britain" on my property.
Ah cmon man. U got one more left.
As long as you look forward to it and keep finding more things to look forward to... you may even get two no problem.
Well, I am 76 and having the same thoughts outside Nashville... looking forward to seeing the wild turkeys feasting while I sit and bask in their calming sound.
Ok, I grew up in Fla and having hundreds of Cicadas in the trees is as loud as a jet engine. They actually have been measured at 120 decibels as well. They are LOUD.
I'm from WV and we would get COVERED when I lived there. They are so annoying.
Please. My subs would destroy them.
@@wouldntyouliketoknow9477 I grew up in SW VA deep in the mountains. Never bothered me. I was adapted to everything. Even hearing gunshots all the time from hunters, and violence or yelling. All normal to me. 😂
@@ericbogar9665 your pretty epic bro
I actually like the sound of Cicadas. It’s one of the iconic sounds of summer to me. But boy oh boy the periodic broods can get insanely loud, had a periodic brood arise in Arkansas a few years back and it was crazy to me how loud they got
I think that their sound is soothing and reminds me of my childhood.
Comes in waves and is a satisfying white noise.
you have this explanation exactly how i feel about these in southeast wisconsin with all the woods around here
Hope someone records the Brood and uploads it to TH-cam !
Note. Do not plant nursery trees on years with 13-17 year cicadas. They drained the sap/ killed 6/32 trees I planted.
That could also be why they are cyclical. They may have destroyed entire forests and been without food, except for the ones that had access to trees with large gaps in cicada exposure.
You probably planted them ,wrong?
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Cicadas don't kill trees. When replanting 32 trees you can be almost guaranteed a handful is going to die. That is normal. More if you don't do it right.
@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 no
Imagine the fear the first person felt when hearing a cicada Brood for the first time
@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 All that, and eventually, someone ate one...realized cicadas have a zesty crunch, and you better believe them ho-ass bugs started hiding underground after. ;)
@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 The cicadas must have taught a fairly valuable lesson then.
My first trip to the South, I had no idea what cicadas were. We got out at a rest area where a giant street light was down in the ground. Being exhausted, and unbearably overheated, I was entirely confused seeing the downed light post, hearing what sounded like a massive electrical buzz although it didn’t seem to be coming from the light post but from every where, and none of the people nearby seemed to be alarmed. I was just shocked and confused. Hence I am now researching the entire life cycle and specific properties of the cicada.
I love the sound of cicadas. I left my windows open to listen to them this summer. Neat bug.
I will never forget my first exposure to the 17-year cicadas. This was in the early 70s, when I was maybe 11 or 12 years old. The weekend they emerged that year I was cutting my grandma's acre and a third lawn--a job I had only recently been allowed to do--and when these bizarre clouds of the beasties suddenly filled the air and my already long, little hippie hair, I was determined not to be daunted by them, stoically charging forward, occasionally spitting out the chunks of wings and legs that kept finding their way into my mouth. My dear old grandmama had tears rolling down her face, laughing so hard at my heroism...which made me laugh at my posturing. One of my earliest lessons in being able to laugh at myself.
We used to get cicadas every year in Sydney, Australia, I guess they had staggered life cycles. I hardly ever hear them now. One of the strangest sensations is to hear thousands of them all at once the sound is really loud and pulsates like some sort of sci-fi, electronic sound effect.
Here in Newcastle we still get them all over the shop every summer.
I was born in Orange in the 1960's, and there was a big orchard just over our back fence. 4 y.o me was in the back yard one afternoon when they all started up at once. I didn't know what a cicada was (until my mother told me), and I thought the world was ending. 🤣
You don't hear them now in Sydney because there's no dirt left it's all concrete now 😮😮😂
The fires must have gotten to them.
@@ferretyluv no they didn't, urbanisation did! Go for a drive from Sydney to Newcastle along the Pacific Hwy instead of freeway & you will hear them on mass, is quite an incredible sound! That's the area the fires were, but obviously fires don't impact an insect that's underground. It'd digging up their underground habitat & replacing it with concrete that has wiped them out in Sydney. Add to that, for the few that do make it, humans like & feed & intentionally attract all the predator birds that eat them. I still sometimes hear them where I live, but only for very short bursts before I see a bird flying off with it in it's beak. As soon as they start making their noise, the birds grab them!
Oh yes! This is one of those subjects I've always meant to look up but always forget. Thank you Simon!
Wow, that might be the most thorough- yet concise- summation of cicadas I've ever seen.
Like, how many writers does this channel have? 'Cause there's no way quality content like this can be churned out so quickly by only one or two.
Ahhh .... Perhaps it is we , who appreciate these arthropods , who only get the chance to write like this once every 13 years....
I love when you guys slip in juicy tidbits on other related subjects, like the bamboo similarity.
Yea I had never heard before that some bamboo flowers simultaneously every 120 years. Amazing.
Why do cicadas live underground for so long? They can't afford the rent. I'll show myself out.
Ahhhh Jake, like your style ! I actually look forward to them coming every 13 years but, at 76, I realize I want to make recordings of their song 'cause I may not get to hear them in such a huge symphony again .
I legit don't know what I'd do without the song of cicadas ion the summer. It's one of the most beautiful things about the south.
What you're explainin is truly an amazin, surreal experience. I live in Southwest Pennsylvania. I was born and raised here, in the heart of Appalachia. In the woods. I have experienced this three times in my life so far. I'm 40. It's so cool to hear someone from across the pond talkin about it. My hat's off to you sir.
I grew up in Joliet Illinois. We had so many of these insects, singing the song of summer, is how I remembered it. I live in central Minnesota now but I have never heard them at the volume I remember as a boy. I love their song.
I work outside in a plant/flower nursery in Maryland. By mid-July they were all dead. I had to clean up so many dead bodies. Every now and then I come across a body I had missed under a table.
Me: Trying to listen to Simon
Brain: Go, Cicada, go, you can make it out of the ground!
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Yes... I root for them ( pun fully intended ) every 13 years !
Many years ago in upstate NY we experienced a huge cicada swarm. They descended around dusk. These bugs covered the entire driveway and my father's car. My mother and I, using leaf rakes, raked a path through the driveway, piling cicadas onto the grass. My dad and brother, using brooms and brushes, swept the insects off his car. We were trying to either go to the movies or out to dinner. Long time ago, but never forgot it.
Watch the video on the Christmas Island Crabs.... the same thing happens with a moving carpet of tiny red crab hatchlings as they move from where they hatched in the sea water, onto shore and then back to the forest. Along the way, filling up window wells and driving kitties crazy.
Human males also attract females with an organ on their abdomen. It"s called "a wallet"
Haha you’re not wrong unfortunately. Working some stupid job doesn’t get you much
9:37 I remember that vividly. It was horrible. Every night it was so loud you almost had to yell at someone just to carry on a conversation outside. But, seeing a dog carrying a buzzing cicada around in their mouth is hilarious and I got to witness that quite a few times that summer
Simon Whistler…world’s tallest gnome. That beard is impressive!
Looks itchy to me and makes me want to go shave and then call my parents
cicadas: "why do humans stay overground for so long?"
laughed.
laughed.
laughed.
Best channel for stoney nights after hard work. Simon's voice is enjoyable but doesn't drone you to sleep
Hope someone records it and puts the Brood on TH-cam !!!!
The sound of these 17 year things is the most calming sound I have ever heard.
My backyard is full of trees and a great number of them took to my trees this year and they were so loud the no matter what the volume I couldn't hear my TV I have a nine-point surround sound and when I would listen to music they would overpower it. Calming isn't the term I would use.
The ones here in Cambodia are like nothing else I’ve ever heard ..like a very loud high pitched skil saw ..incredible volume high above in the trees ..and I’m quite deaf
Hope someone records the Brood and uploads it to TH-cam !
Best childhood memories: putting cicada shells on the back of my sister.
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@Lady Chalk, I'm sure those are her worst memories of childhood. Also awesome name.
Yeah. People like you are the problem.
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I was fortunate enough to get to observe two broods in back to back years. My family lives in SW Virginia and I was able to experience Brood IX while visiting for Mother's Day 2020. Then, Brood X hit Northern Virginia, where I live and it was incredible. They were all over my apartment's windows and were extremely loud and flying everywhere while I was did outdoor activities like running, hiking, and kayaking. They're honestly incredible
excellent video! lots of great info and enjoyed learning about those noisy cicadas! :D
Congratulations! Your Nincada evolved into Ninjask!!!
Lv 20, NICE. Hopefully you had an extra pokeball and an open slot in your party so you can obtain Shedinja!
@@Joefrogigolo always.
Nature is 'weird - but also highly effective at finding solutions.
True, it's had a while to operate also.
@@Owenwuzhere - and to weed out the options that didn't work - I imagine that all options were tried at one time or another, and these have survived because they work so well..
Finding? Nah. More like an infinite "plinko game." You dont see all of the strategies that dont work because, well, they dont work.
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Yo cool pfp what bird is that
I love their sounds. I find that it induces a meditative state in me. I also feel like I'm immersed in nature.
It just makes me crave an air-conditioned room.
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Hope someone records the Brood and uploads it to TH-cam !
I remember Brood X in west-central AL in 1987. If you've ever encountered the saying "it was so loud I could not hear myself think" -- that year, that brood, in that bit of the US... that would have been a perfect example. The constant daytime din of the wee beasts sounding off was so very that it was almost capable of obliterating thought itself.
POV: you just watched a 12 min video about bugs who live in their parents basement and don’t even go outside 99% of their lives
YEP
Clocked the periodical cicadas at almost 96 dB in the neighborhood that I lived in (where there weren't that many trees to start). In the actual woods the sound probably could've ruptured eardrums.
I worked at a golf course during the last iteration of this foul tradition and you are right there were parts of the golf course we couldn't even go near because even when covering our ears as hard as we could the sound was unbearable to the point of painful
I now live in a townhouse that is 12 feet from a protected Forest here outside Nashville, TN.... I have been looking forward to this all year....... most people think I'm nuts, but heck, I am a 76 year old biology teacher ... so they're probably right !
I love the cicadas. Their music always reminds me of my childhood where I spent a large percentage of being outside with my old friends.
Hope someone records the Brood and uploads it to TH-cam !
I live in the center of the biggest 17 year brood territory. It was INSANELY loud for 6 weeks. There were SOOOOOOOOO many of them.
Always loved the cry of the cicada, so nostalgic for the good old days of summer
Hope someone records the Brood and uploads it to TH-cam !
That's amazing. I live in Michigan and have experienced Cicadas my whole life. However... I never knew why the 13 and 17 year species came out at those points. Very Very cool to understand this now. Thanks! Nature is amazing.
Fantastic work, thank you
When I was a kid we lived in the country where the swarm was unbearably dense. We figured out that tennis rackets were incredibly good at culling them when airborne, so we would shake trees and shred all the ones that flew out. Worked like a charm.
For hard mode, use baseball bats instead of tennis rackets.
Your thumbnails are honestly so funny LOL
I spent 26 years underground buddy, it was the wage packet that kept me there. 😂
The US east coast deals with cicadas every year despite what people say. They have appeared in droves every August for at least my life. Maybe a small subspecies appears rarely, but not enough to notice a difference from every other year.
I live in the mid atlantic of the US, and when we had the really bad season of cicadas a couple months ago, I could barely step out of my house because all the trees in my neighborhood were literally covered with cicadas. It was loud enough to literally set my ears ringing.
Cicadas remain underground even longer than some 60s-early 70s radicals. Cicadas are interesting.
Wait a second, how the heck does all the global bamboo know when to flower? You buried a little nugget of added weirdness in a very weird video!
There's probably some sort of biological fuse. It takes so long for it to run its course, and then BOOM, flowers. Then all new bamboo seeds produced have the same "fuse" leading to the same cycle. Naturally, through mutation, some will have different fuses, but they will flower all alone, with no one else to pollinate, leading to no transmission of those genes.
@Neal Palmer well, yes, coral spawning times used to sync perfectly with their neighbors, using temperature, daylight, and lunar cycles as cues but many of them are no longer in sync, perhaps because of human-caused changes to their environment, and will probably go extinct as a result.
Laughs in twinned particles!
@@oxcart4172 well now, a person could become tangled up laughing that way. Can lead to heated discussion, in fact, the debate might rise to quantum levels.
Ahhh it's all in their genes !
True story.
I was a bagger many moons ago and one night while retrieving many multiple carts from the parking lot, one of these screaming nightmares flew into my head. As I was not amused by this vicious assault on my person, I took great care to squish that little jerk with a cart.
Also, they nap because screaming is an exhaustive exercise.
Claremont CA, just spent the last few months listening to them. No idea how long they spend underground out here in California. Very interesting video.
Very cool piece 👍 Simon should start a new channel called Critter Blaze! Learn all about the animal kingdom
We have annual cicadas here in Colorado and the noise they make can be deafening. Not to mention annoying. Despite their mating calls being annoying to most people they’re quite amazing creatures.
Go Colorado!
Your vids are great man
I Love the sound of the cicadas song. It is comforting to me. Brings back memories from when I was a kid. ☺
Hope someone records the Brood and uploads it to TH-cam !
What most of our generation doesn't know is there are cicadas with a 150 year cycle. They molt and molt until they are the size of cars. We are almost at that stage.
Is that a one-punch man reference.
I miss the summer sound of cicadas, except when they are out partying all night & keep me awake 😆
Here in Northwest MO it's been insane. Crickets and Cicadas mate in tandem and it's an orchestra of humming and chirping. Until a firework goes off. Then it's dead silent for about five minutes and it starts up again
Interesting, the last opportunity I had to experience the emergence of the Cicadas was in 1987, I lived in Valdosta, GA. Previous to that would have been 1970 when I was 9 years old, living in Gainesville, GA; however, at that age I didn't understand that sound or what a Cicada was, I just tolerated the annoying sound and kept playing. The interesting part, in 1987, I noticed the sound of the Cicadas would crescendo to a near-deafening level then die down and it would continue that cycle for a few weeks. Also if I heard a single Cicada in the yard I would wonder if it was a rattlesnake (sound is similar). I have always been afraid of them; they are so large and not knowing if they bit or stung, so never messed with them.
Thanks for the video.
Had an annual cicada crash into a window last week and land on its back. Went outside to right it, and it started singing in my hands. I could literally feel the bones of my middle ear vibrate inside my skull that thing was so loud.
They're plotting something.
“So long! And thanks for all the sap!”
I got married,had the reception outside, and the cicadas were there. That constant buzz is all thru the video. Landing on guests,food, anything else. They even made the wedding photos! But with all that it’s still an unforgettable experience I won’t forget. 😉 This was Illinois. 17 year cycle here
They blanketed the ground and trees where I grew up in Maryland. You couldn’t step without crunching them.
I brought them to church to play with when I was knee high and I made some lady start shrieking.
And the sound of the back-to-school bugs heralding the end of summer vacation still bums me out even though I’ve been out of school for years.
I remember in 1998 when the 17 and 13 year broods coincided for the 1st time in 200 years, my neighborhood was clearing our driveway's off with snow shovels.
Their voices are so beautiful!
Hope someone records the Brood and uploads it to TH-cam !
I live in MD and it was interesting this year. I live in an older development with a decent sized park that has quite a few older trees. In my block most of the trees that were around 17 years ago had died or been cut down so the noise wasn't all that loud. I am 4 blocks from the park and as you walked towards the park it got louder and louder. The noise is annoying but they go silent at dusk and don't restart until the sun is well up so they don't interrupt your sleep. I'm looking forward to seeing them in 2038!
Good job, Simon, on this video; I love cicadas. Now I'm interested in the bamboo 130 yr cycle.