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Sound of summer is about to turn up: Trillions of cicadas about to emerge
Posted on 5/6/21 at 7:29 am
Posted on 5/6/21 at 7:29 am
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Nature at its craziest: Trillions of cicadas about to emerge
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In maybe a third of a square foot of dirt, the University of Maryland entomologists find at least seven cicadas -- a rate just shy of a million per acre. A nearby yard yielded a rate closer to 1.5 million.
And there’s much more afoot. Trillions of the red-eyed black bugs are coming, scientists say.
Within days, a couple weeks at most, the cicadas of Brood X (the X is the Roman numeral for 10) will emerge after 17 years underground. There are many broods of periodic cicadas that appear on rigid schedules in different years, but this is one of the largest and most noticeable. They’ll be in 15 states from Indiana to Georgia to New York; they’re coming out now in mass numbers in Tennessee and North Carolina.
When the entire brood emerges, backyards can look like undulating waves, and the bug chorus is lawnmower loud.
The cicadas will mostly come out at dusk to try to avoid everything that wants to eat them, squiggling out of holes in the ground. They’ll try to climb up trees or anything vertical, including Raupp and Shrewsbury. Once off the ground, they shed their skins and try to survive that vulnerable stage before they become dinner to a host of critters including ants, birds, dogs, cats and Raupp.
It’s one of nature’s weirdest events, featuring sex, a race against death, evolution and what can sound like a bad science fiction movie soundtrack.
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“You’ve got a creature that spends 17 years in a COVID-like existence, isolated underground sucking on plant sap, right? In the 17th year these teenagers are going to come out of the earth by the billions if not trillions. They’re going to try to best everything on the planet that wants to eat them during this critical period of the nighttime when they’re just trying to grow up, they’re just trying to be adults, shed that skin, get their wings, go up into the treetops, escape their predators,” he says.
“Once in the treetops, hey, it’s all going to be about romance. It’s only the males that sing. It’s going to be a big boy band up there as the males try to woo those females, try to convince that special someone that she should be the mother of his nymphs. He’s going to perform, sing songs. If she likes it, she’s going to click her wings. They’re going to have some wild sex in the treetop.
“Then she’s going to move out to the small branches, lay their eggs. Then it’s all going to be over in a matter of weeks. They’re going to tumble down. They’re going to basically fertilize the very plants from which they were spawned. Six weeks later the tiny nymphs are going to tumble 80 feet from the treetops, bounce twice, burrow down into the soil, go back underground for another 17 years.”
AP article
Posted on 5/6/21 at 7:30 am to Bobby OG Johnson
Maybe this is the end times.
Posted on 5/6/21 at 7:33 am to Bobby OG Johnson
I hope enough people realize how that these particular ones only come out every 17 years and don’t go out and buy a bunch of bug poison. Just let mother nature take its course.
I wish I could see it.
I wish I could see it.
Posted on 5/6/21 at 7:33 am to Bobby OG Johnson
It sounds like 17 again
When I was a kid I would collect their discarded shells and have wars with them. They make a satisfying crunch
When I was a kid I would collect their discarded shells and have wars with them. They make a satisfying crunch
This post was edited on 5/6/21 at 7:36 am
Posted on 5/6/21 at 7:34 am to DeafJam73
Cool insects. Wish I was closer to where they’ll be.
Posted on 5/6/21 at 7:34 am to Bobby OG Johnson
I dated a girl from England which her mother was here for a visit. We were walking around her neighborhood and the cicadas were out in force. Her mom was asking what that “God awful “ noise was. I told her, since we were so close to the swamp, it’s these birds of prey who like to swoop down and take a chunk of skin out of you.
The entire walk back she was constantly looking up for said birds of prey...
The entire walk back she was constantly looking up for said birds of prey...
Posted on 5/6/21 at 7:35 am to Bobby OG Johnson
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Once in the treetops, hey, it’s all going to be about romance. It’s only the males that sing. It’s going to be a big boy band up there as the males try to woo those females, try to convince that special someone that she should be the mother of his nymphs. He’s going to perform, sing songs. If she likes it, she’s going to click her wings. They’re going to have some wild sex in the treetop.
What kind of freak wrote this?
Posted on 5/6/21 at 7:38 am to Bobby OG Johnson
Topwater fishing about to start popping.
Posted on 5/6/21 at 7:41 am to JCinBAMA
Nothing quite as entertaining as watching the wife FREAK THE F OUT when one gets tangled up in her hair...except maybe your daughter in the same situation.
Posted on 5/6/21 at 7:43 am to Bobby OG Johnson
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Shanghai Cicadas
Ingredients:
30 newly-emerged cicadas
2 tbps anise seeds
1 tsp salt
2 cups rice wine
additional water and rice wine
8 cloves
mashed garlic
celery to garnish
turnip greens to garnish
Directions:
1. Boil the cicadas and anise in salted rice wine for five minutes, then remove the cicadas.
2. Sauté the mashed garlic, adding enough of equal parts water and rice wine to make a thick paste.
3. Deep-fry the cicadas, then skewer them with bamboo picks.
Arrange them on a plate with the turnip greens, celery, and garlic paste to look like cicadas climbing out of a mud pie into green foliage.
Yield: 4 appetizer-sized servings
From
LINK www.tullabs.com/cicadaworld/
Posted on 5/6/21 at 7:52 am to Pepperoni
I’d at least try it, might be good.
Posted on 5/6/21 at 7:58 am to Bobby OG Johnson
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This post was edited on 5/6/21 at 5:42 pm
Posted on 5/6/21 at 7:58 am to Bobby OG Johnson
I looked to see if they'd be in my area and luckily, they arent. This guy says to eat them
LINK
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"I’d encourage people to just enjoy and embrace it. It’s a marvel of nature. If you really want to do more, I’d say collect and eat them. Fry them up or find different ways to cook them," said Abbott. "They’re arthropods and are in the same group as shrimp. Not saying they taste like shrimp, but if you season them, they’ll take on the flavors of what you put on them. They’re like fried pork skins, very high in protein."
LINK
Posted on 5/6/21 at 7:59 am to Bobby OG Johnson
You are going to need that cheap source of protein once the food shortages hit.
Posted on 5/6/21 at 8:00 am to schwartzy
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I wish I could see it.
You'll certainly hear it.
Posted on 5/6/21 at 8:09 am to Bobby OG Johnson
Governments practicing tyranny, churches rising out of lakes, swarms of locusts about to hatch.
Time to buckle down, folks
Time to buckle down, folks
Posted on 5/6/21 at 8:35 am to Bobby OG Johnson
Emerge, frick and die.
What a life.
What a life.
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