Amazing Cicada Life Cycle | Sir David Attenborough's Life In the Undergrowth | BBC
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- Sir David Attenborough outlines the amazing life cycle of the humble cicada.
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Can you imagine living underground for 17 years, just to come out to be trolled by David Attenborough.
😂
Lmfao 😂
At least it tricked by one of legend🤣
Sir*
A little but of tomfoolery
Imagine living underground for 17 years just to come out and be loud asf just because you wanna smash
That's about my life.
wooohh, that amazing lifejourney for CICADA
We humans are no better, really. We basically do the same shit lol
Literally me
That’s literally humans
I’ve lived through this several times in my life. I remember one time when I was younger my dad threw a tennis racket into a tree that had hundreds of them in it. He did that because my sister hated them and a swarm of them flew right at her. It was priceless.
Bet that was hilarious to watch. Wish you'd recorded it... It would go viral these days.
😂
Last time they came by I was in middle school, we would kick the trees near the girls to scare them lol
2024 anyone
In tinley park Illinois my back yard has millions
I wish I could witness the double brood
Here
Cameraman - "Finally, after 17 years of sitting here filming they emerge"
they just missed it 9 years and had to wait another 8
😂 😂 😂
so he trying to 'smash' the cicada or nah
The Scarecrow ⏺z
The Scarecrow qq
That poor Cicada thought he was going to get laid...that's a terrible trick to play!
😂 😂
And next time on Catfish...
well, it kinda got it's revenge by going to his ear and singing lol
Blue balls
Especially being barricaded for 17 years😬
Here in Illinois, this year, we have two species of cicades coming out together, for the first time in over 221 years. I know it’s not a big deal, but me, I love nature, and that sounds awesome 😊
I came here to watch because of this exact thing. I hope it's not too crazy.
it’s gonna be noisy in illinois 😁
I was just reading a manga about this! Didnt know it was real.
I’ve been dreading this year since the last time they were out 17 years ago. And now as a homeowner, I’m terrified of the thought of having to mow the lawn this summer.
Do we??
i’m actually less scared of them now, thank you dude
I love how sir David seduced one of the cicadas, lol
Poor little dude got the most insane blue balls
Just don't try it on a Kakapo!
Never new how to attract them its cool just snaping your fingers could attract a bug
Homie was all ready to pump some seed in his ear.
Anyone with fingers can
17 year olds only ever have one thing on their minds...
lolll
Lmao
17 years later.....they still don't know what a condom is... LMFAO
@@nikerailfanningttm9046 fucking screaming😆
uwoooooooh seeeeeeeeeeggs
No one:
Male human: *snaps fingers*
Male Cicada: “Hey girl, what you say your name was again? Caitlynn?😍😘
I love cicadas. When I was young my father would take me out at like 4am in the morning the catch these. We'd take some home and put them on our fly screen and watch them hatch then we'd put them on our trees outside to be free. Because my father introduced them to me in such a way, they're the only insect I don't mind handling and catching.
They're so relaxing during the summer, until one either falls out of a tree and hits you, or flies right into your face.
Haha
one cicada flew inside our house and it is really scary. it wanted to be out of our house thats why it keeps on slamming its body towards the wall.. they have this hard sound and when it flips they produce soooo creepy sound
wrr
+Rio Ailes +Rio Ailes They're completely harmless, all they eat is tree sap And they're slow and big. In China, kids would tie strings to their abdomens and play with them
David -flamingsword1 Do they bite or sting?
I'm awake at 1:30 am watching Sir David Attenborough catfish cicadas
1:06 AM for me lol
Try 4:12 and i got work at 6
1 year later and its 1 : 30 am for me while I read your comment
@@darinmorgante7200 it is know 6:33 and im at the bus stop barely awake reading your comment.
4:41 am
Dude, watching them emerge from the outer shell, I'm almost envious. That looks like it is one of the greatest feelings any living thing can experience. It's amazing watching the wings take shape then almost instantly become hard enough to be useful
That is what it feels like to be born again through Jesus Christ🕊️ we experience a spiritual rebirth where we discard the old man (like an exoskeleton) and embrace the new man indwelled with the Holy Spirit🐛🦋
@@Little_Devotchka Excellent analogy! ❤
@@mamaluvsherbabes God bless🙏🕊️
@@Little_DevotchkaReligion is a cult.
Sigh. Unzips
When he was snapping: “Why you gotta lead my homie on like that?”
🤣🤣
3:48
Cicada: Dont move Attenborough... just let this happen.
elvampe13
"bite down on something."
Just close your eyes and go to your "happy place"
If he can’t save baby elephants he certainly won’t help a cicada.
Gonna use this ear hole.
@@squeezylemons8357 in 17 years a new cicada is born. Funny thing it likes natural history and will go on to make a new series for the BBC.
I don't even regret spending 5 min. watching Sir David Attenborough catfish cicadas, lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Who else from Maryland and starting to see them in piles?
NOVA here, and yup they're everywhere
Northern Virginia here and it’s just as bad
Silver spring shits wild out here in my backyard bruh
@@orangutan79 I used to live in sliver springs now i’m in laurel and they’re fucking everywhere
Takoma Park here and they’re everywhere and so LOUD! I remember the last time this happened; it was wild.
I watch this every 13 years.
2024 is my year.
That’s kinda a kool life. After years underground you emerge to see the sun, grow a pair of wings and go find love. Beautiful.
Horny insects come out after 17 years of nothing to fuck for two months and die. Beautiful.
@@floga10 ...just imagine if they don't get laid their life was a complete waste after 17 Years
@@floga10 --- most hookers are like that --- fuck like crazy for a few months and then OD on heroin
"AAAAAAAAA I'M HORNY SOMEONE PLEASE SEX ME RIGHT NOW AAAAAAAA"
Ledya vtwenty: "That's the kinda life I want."
Lmaoo smh
You can hear these every summer in Oklahoma. I've never found the buzzing annoying, though. It's just a relaxing and nostalgic summer sound
+Micah's Music I thought they only came out once every 17 years. All of them. That's what John Oliver said.
Florence Gee The U.S. has about 150 different species of cicada, all of which mature and appear at different stages of that 17 years. So there are always some that will mature in certain areas, Oklahoma for example, and you can still here cicadas every summer
Micah's Music cool!
MJHums i too find them relaxing
MJHums same as in Mississippi, I love to hear them. But depending on the species the emerge every 2 to 17 years.
Here in Texas we have cicadas every summer. Even when I was 4 years old I was mesmerized by them. I'm in my fifties now and still think their music is the most beautiful song ever.
And they make damn good fish bait
@@TheDizzwizard I didn't know that. I don't fish cause I hate being around water. But I've always preferred hunting as opposed to fishing. Only seafood I eat are shrimp , lobster and crab.
@@WiIdbiII add some oysters to that and were in business
@@TheDizzwizard on a cracker with some horseradish. Heck yeah!
Those are dog day cicadas - they have them here too - they're green. We also have the ones seen here in this video. I am in TN
There's an interesting hypothesis on the reason why these cicadas emerge every 17 years.
Cicadas, as most animals do, have predators (wasps for example).
The way they defend themselves is called "Predator Saciation", that means they make themselves so numerous that they overwhelm the predator, they just cant eat anymore.
The problem with this is that when you give too much food to your predator, they multiply, and that's not good for you. And that's where the 17 years comes in. They make their lifecycle really long so that the predator can't match their cycle.
But why 17? Well, let's say they have a cycle of 12 years. In this case, the predator doesnt need to match that long cycle, if they have a cycle of 6 years for example, they will catch up with the cicadas every 2 lifecycles.
So the cicadas need a number that can't be divisible, a prime number. So those are the conditions, long life cycle, and a prime number.
There is another type of cicada that has a cycle of 13 years, which would support this theory.
Of course they didnt choose to do this, it's the work of natural selection, maybe there were cicadas with lifecycles of 8, 10, 12 years.
But their predators catched up with them and they went extint, and only the ones with these conditions survived.
Really intetesting, thanks for the explanation.
Yeah but no. Give and example of what you mean exactly by "the predator doesnt need to match that long cycle".
You;re saying their main predator would be something that has a life cycle similar to their pupa state?
I follow you but it doesn't exactly make sense past them making themselves so numerous.
Like he stated.
Nobody knows why.
Not everything needs to be known by nosey folks.
Enough said.
This is the stupidest thing I've ever read.
That explains why they all come out at once, but doesn't explain the 17 years.
I love how even Attenborough, despite all the expeditions he’s been on, and all the animals he encountered and interacted with, he still gets squeamish when an insect flys to his face, just like how most people would react.
Yah its different that bug wanted to get laid lol he got a little scared.
Not gonna lie, part of me wished he had wigged the fuck out and ran off screen 😂
The squeamishness was not about the bug landing on him but about the noise from the cicada. One that close to the ear is deafening.
Big Gus, he wasn't squeamish because its an insect.
It was the loud deafening noise it was producing next to his ears that was making him cringe
Cicada call is over 100dB. It is not dissimilar to standing next to a speaker array at a concert venue.
stop giving them blue balls old man
I grew up with these here in the Appalachian Mountains but we call them “jar flies”. One of the reasons is that if you’re close to them their noise is jarring but the most common reason is we’d try to catch them and put them in a jar so we could hear them later. They were incredibly timid so it was rare to catch any. To think all I had to do was snap my fingers and they would come to me. Go figure.
My Mississippi-raised mother called them June bugs, and she called ger first car, a green '51 Studebaker Champion Starlight, The June Bug.
Funny how this popped up into my recommended while this is actually currently taking place.
Yea it popped up in my recommendations too lol I thought I'll see more comments about it
People will be searching it because it was happening so it'll be recommended more.
3:17 your playing with that dudes feelings don’t do him dirty like that 😭😭
Fr fr
I like how it jumps for his ear and just screams like "so you wanna play with my emotions bruh?!!"
@@Keys879 Fr homie was just tryna find some 😔🧠
I love the sound of cicadas in the summertime. But they are some scary looking bugs.
@Sy'nyia Walker its relaxing, especially when youre napping, kinda like singing you to sleep
It's relaxing if they're not loud af. I live in a place which has brood X. Awesome af, but painfully loud. The sound playing is accurate to how loud it actually is
@Sy'nyia Walker The only thing I find annoying and repulsive in this world is vile humans but you're obviously braindead.
@Sy'nyia Walker Handled it like a champ
These are not normal cicadas. They fly around in drunken droves, bumping into you, and getting into everything. They are so loud you can't have a normal conversation outside. I am living in this hell right now!!
I live in Maryland and am currently sitting on my porch and can not even hear my iPad which is right on my lap. The cicadas are SO loud and I love it. The Brood X cicadas are truly a wonder of nature.
Exactly 10 years ago 2013 the summer of 2013.. my ex, and I we were living up in Virginia at the time and we were sitting out on our front steps it was about 12 AM. All of a sudden they started popping up out of the ground everywhere. It was pretty amazing to say the least but also kind of creepy at the same time.
"Aaahhhhhhh, after 17 years I'm free. It's time to conquer Earttthhhh."
Underrated comment.
Yeah. We call it Spring Break.
Crunch , green guts
Bingo
GO GO POWER RANGERSSSS
They're in the "climax"... Very clever choice of words lol
You forgot the part about their lack of boundaries and their issue with asking consent before caressing people’s necks
I'm still SHOCKED they spend 17 years underground, it's amazing and kinda beautiful 😮
After 17 years... MTV Cicada Spring Break goes off the chain!
I live in Japan, Tokyo to be specific, and here in Japan, the cicada is considered the symbol of summer. Spring has the cherry blossom, summer has the cicada. To the Japanese, the cicada embodies a lot of what was considered the "warrior's ideal," very much like the cherry blossom, a short life, yet one lived to the fullest.
I heard that Ok that call it like the death time or sonething like that his that true? Like all the fruits or alot become poisonous
I lived in Hong Kong for the first 17 years of my life. I have also come to associate them with summer.
It's the same in many places in America. It's the soundtrack of summer
That is quite interesting. We here in North East Texas know when the circada sings it is going to get hot 🔥
Nature : when we look , it's back drop forever reveals to us, that yes - our life is short and in that span we ought make the best to arrive at our destiny.
The screaming bloody murder in the background really does it for me. So calming.
It's happening now in the Maryland area. What a privilege to witness this event. Nature😍
17 years waiting underground.. i feel so bad have killing one of them when i was a kid...
You murderer lol
u should lol
hey,, it was an accident...
Reza Adi Pratama
All life has value. A cicada’s life is pretty low especially if it’s just one. There is a reason why some many can exists on an instance that is because they are all replaceable because a lot of them die. Don’t feel bad they can be a real pest sometimes. Nothing in life is wasted. You squish one and it’s all becomes soil and nutrients for other life.
I remember we smashed one thinking it was a shell.. nope. Green slime.
3:02 there a cicada on ur shoulder lol
4:31: theres one on ur leg climbing
+Melon John LOL
+Melon John good eye there! I never noticed!
bear grylls: "and there's one in my mouth."
nice catch!
The World would be much poorer without Sir David. Another enlightening bit of information. Thank you.
2021....and now we have them again.
Living in eastern Oklahoma all my life I have grown to find the sound of cicadas nostalgic.
David, you tease!
Lol good one
@4:28 the cicada is climbing up his pants onto his shirt omg I would’ve had an heart attack 😩
I'm writing this in 2021, and I hope you film again this documentary in HD quality in about four more years from now :)
That is so adorable how it follows him.
Victal it was trying to mate with him
@@yodasmith9595 Maybe it did (think: "The Fly").
I wish I could attract females by screaming as loud as i can.
move to china or vietnam
You can just gotta listen carefully for there cheeks to clap after screaming. Didn’t you watch the video.
It worked for Robert Plant
I believe in you Zeus
Hey ladies!!
My God my God!! I marvel in the world that you have created. You are beyond my comprehension but never beyond my appreciation.
Amen! What a God we serve ~~~~~
Catonsville, Md here. It's over now and I totally enjoyed the show. Odds are I will not be around for their next debut. My two year old grand daughter and I had some fun watching them up close, making memories and pictures that I hope she will cherish when she is 19 and the cicadas make their grand entrance again. 💌🦗
This is just priceless. You become a treasure by showing life's treasures. Thank you, David!
He was humping the crap outta her he probably fertilized a thousand eggs… oh BTW David you had one crawling up your leg
This really reinforces the fact that I need to spend more time in nature. Much to be discovered and learned.
This spring "after seventeen long years it's time to get down to business", unfortunately for me I can relate.
🤣🤣
Maryland right now
After 17 years, the time has come to get down to business... LOL
I heard their wonderful songs as I walked home in the sun today. To me they are the embodiment of Summer. I can't imagine having a year without them, they're just brilliant :)
I collected around 76 on my walk, I didn't even know I picked up that many!
here we go boys.....
Celebrating 2021 Cicada Emergence here in Maryland. It is so fascinating. I have taken many pictures and helped a few of them to the tree trunks where they belong. I feel so bad for the ones that plunge into my windshield while I'm driving. Seems so sad that after 17 long years so many of them die so quickly, never to make it to mating. But, I am happy for the ones that do.
My brother in law showed me this entire life cycle happening as I spent my vacation there visting! It's amazing to watch them emerge from the ground, time capsuled, then they crawl to whatever they can climb to perch upside down, then the metamorphosis begins! It's amazing! Their wings are like jelly but harden as they begin to flap them! I swear, it's like a magic trick somewhat related to butterflies. But a different insect entirely! Nature timed at 17 yrs but it's actually an annual event. Because they bred intermediary cycles. Every year brings in their distinct anniversary of their evolutionary origin.
When I was going through Sapper school at Ft. Leonard Wood MO, I remember hearing the sound. It's unforgettable. It sounds like buzzing power lines, but it surrounds you everywhere. Almost like it's emanating from thin air. Funny thing is: I've never seen one.
Sir David is the ultimate narrator on the planet. And Marty Stouffer.
I love them. Reminds me of when I was a child. It is amazing to see them again. And I hope that I get to see them next time they come.
Why Sir David Attenborough is so brilliant?
Hear them every summer here in central Pennsylvania...but I love 'em
I love hearing the Cicada’s when they’re making their noise, it reminds me of my childhood when we would go down to my uncles cabin for the weekend and hearing them in the woods was music to my ears.
They have just emerged after 17 years. I can hear their chorus. There are so many of them! How interesting. I had never seen them before around here.
I Just walked past like 100 of them
Last time they came out I got all the ones that Got stuck in they're cases and put them all into a big box so they could mate. I felt bad for them 17 years and you get stuck in your nymf shell. I was like cicada match maker, a real bro haha
Best "wing"man ever.
@@TheJakeVegas007 HA
@@TheJakeVegas007 now thats a great pun, congrats Mr Jake Vegas LOL
@@jacob-cs5fx lol why thank you sir.
Thats bull.i saw some cicadas in Anderson sc in 2008.i went elsewhere for a while,and now its 2020 and there's more .now tell me what's real??.i also found one coming out of the ground when I was eight or nine and I'm only 31 years old so how did I see three different cycles of cicadas and I'm only 31 years old???.i have a jar full of the Shell's now from June 2020.someone tell me the true facts about them seriously, because im very interested.
3:20
Why you gotta go catfishing that little guy Bro?
I know🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love these little creatures!❤ I love listening to them!
That man is a international treasure! I could listen to him talk all day.
The cicada blew in his ear 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😱
David said the sound was awful, this surprised me honestly. I love the beautiful sound of Cicadas. Not something you can really put on tape with a shotgun mic or whatever. You have to just stand amongst it :)
it is the sound of summer to me. It's magical to stand outside and feel the sound embrace you. And imo they're pretty cute insects, kinda like pets.
I saw my first brood x cicada today here in Ohio. I missed the last emergence because I was in basic training. Im a nerd for this kind of stuff so im excited
Okay that snapping of the finger was legendary
Congratulations! Your Nincada has evolved into Ninjask!
I killed one by accident a long time ago.i feel so bad knowing it lived for 17 years
Quite simply, David Attenborough is a treasure.
I absolutely love the sound they make! I’m going to miss it!
It's one of the sounds of summer here... the annual cicadas are not so earsplitting, but when one of the long-term Broods comes up from the depths, it's a raucous occasion for sure.
Sir David Attenborough's one of my favorite nature-show hosts for a good reason. Always classy and witty and fun to listen to. :)
Well this video was made 15 years ago so we should be due for more cicadas and another great video
You can imagine how I appreciate this guy through the years
amazing footage
I complimented one on its patience once, and Mr. A was correct, he was extraordinarily humble. I remember a MASSIVE cicada hatch when i was around ten or eleven. It was impressive
One of life’s most amazing creatures. Love them.
2021 is the year. They are everywhere here in Washington DC. Cool life cycle!
one of my favorite Sir David Moments, ever...
the contortions of his face as he gets ear-blasted by that cicada are just priceless.
😂 oh you want some baby is what the male cicada is saying in David ear
Amazing video! I liked this short, informative video. I've always liked the time of the year when the sound of cicadas lulled me to sleep. Unfortunately here in the Midwest, farm chemicals have badly reduced their numbers and they are a vanishing sound in the night, just like frogs, owls, foxes....and the blink of lightening bugs.
The one sound I will never get tired of, beautiful beautiful cicadas
What a tease that Sir David is!. I cannot even begin to thank him for everything he has amazed me with over the years, he is a real superhero
Anyone else here after finding out that they re-emerging in 2020
Yuuuup I guess we know what the boss is for July
Lmao yes
I just heard them today
John Faux where are you ?
@@Queenmarie88 I got a whole choir here in Okinawa
Anyone notice the bug on Sir Attenborough's leg? It keeps climbing his shirt!
Cicadas are so awesome I love them
That was SO informative❣️
"Can I bring you back?" "how about coming this way?" "The noise is awful!" "Yes I can hear you!" He kind of got what he deserved didn't he, lol.
They've been social distancing for 17 years!😂
2:55 David Attenborough, Cicada CT extraordinaire.
Barely remember the last time this happened. Still have other cicadas every year but it will be fun to see this again.
Cicada
Fritada
Tomato
Tomata
Hakuna Matata
I'll seeya tomorrah!
:-)
Yes, pretty meaningless, isn't it, if you believe everything is random.
Clever.
Great comment
I think the cicadas would also like it when they appear again this summer