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- Опубліковано 4 тра 2017
- The biggest insect emergence on the planet is underway - after an absence of 17 years the next batch of Periodical Cicadas will grace the Forest for just a mere few days. For the Turtle and other Forest inhabitants this will be one very rare but ultimately satisfying banquet.
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"They can't stop all of us" -Cicadas Every 17 years.
Came here for that comment!
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That is basically their strategy. Overwhelm the odds of survival.
@@ablazozo6303 sry I dont speak bomb wires
@@ablazozo6303 Damn, that´s deep
Imagine spending 17 years of your life growing, maturing, and just waiting underground and when you finally emerge, you're eaten
We do 17 years with parents then when your 18 your eatin by work bills responsibility ect.
It's nature
@@MechaLeo ?
Sounds like war
See WWI and WW2 for best human analogy. ..
“This is a feast they’re lucky to once in a lifetime”
Some of the turtles in the forest: nope, this is my 4th time.
😂
😂😂😂
Insert that "First time?" meme.
Letting the days go by…
HAHAHAHAHAAHHAHA
Wasps: We have stingers to defend our home.
Moths: We can camouflage ourselves against the trees.
Cicadas: Hey, they can't eat _all_ of us.
Cicadas together strong
Ready guys? Send that wave, they seem to have all the answers, they stop at no law or ethic to have their way, which is horrible, and suicide for us. Let em go first. Tell those democrats that that the forest is burning up dry and stop it by making a bunch of noise while cooling the air with thousands of beating wings . Then the rest can go up , be fruitful, and multiply
Lol basically, this specific species has strength in sheer numbers. Because other cicada species fly away very quickly when they feel threatened.
It's sad in a way, if they don't get eaten within about 3 days or so, they just die anyway, well that's a better death and they can still get eaten afterwards I guess...
Turtle in the pond, hold my beer.
Man to all those animals, it's like BILLIONS of snickers bars just flying around out of nowhere without a good explanation.
hahahaa
😂😂😂 I’m weak
Lol
Healthy burgers not snicker bars.
It would be like paradise for Murica
Cicada pro tip: always arrive late to the party
Then their predators are full and sick of eating them.
Right on time actually. Right on time for 2020’s peak of disaster.
@@Captain_Pricey Right on the mo ney!
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But the later you are the less likely you'd have your 1 shot at getting laid and then dying for nothing anyway.
Cicada: Finally. Now I have wings and can FLY
*drops to the ground and gets eaten by pretty much any animal*
Can I eat it XD
@@slipknot8605 they are high in mercury but also high in protein.
@@slipknot8605 yes you can
Are they poison to cats
@@marilynshanks7189 no
*Grandpa Squirrel:* "It was a day like no other, food suddenly appeared out of nowhere, we ate and we ate and we ate and we ate... Sigh... never again have we seen such a day the heavens blessed us so"
"Grandpa! Grandpa! They're coming back! Get the bucket!"
@@thecringemaniac3251 or... Gosh grandpa why do you always make up stories?
I was about to tell you it happens every year, but then I remembered squirrels are lucky if they even survive 1 year in the wild. They can survive several years though if predators or disease don't get them.
Brought to you by: That itchy feeling on your body
This comment is majorly underrated
Louis Sutcliffe I agree
When you said that I started feeling itchy
Oh hell naw
AHHH NOOO
If the cicadas had voices, we'd hear a lot of screaming.
Bruh, summer in new england. The trees scream
That's about all they do is scream all summer.
Janspek Like here in Italy
Dude that's not comparable to what we have here in the UAE. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night if the trees there had voices.
many of those trees were my friends
Animals are so savage they eat the face first without even thinking about it.
@John Monte Breast, wing, leg or thigh would be preferable. But if you must go face first at least consider it for a second. At least let it be deceased. That's some savage shit to just chomp down on the eyes and mouth and brain of a living thing. In conclusion, yes, eat the ass before the face lol.
Think of it as a headshot
Jerrell Simmons insects and predators don't have morals like humans. It's eat or get eaten to animals.
@@kcrossover4267 I'm not thinking of morals. I couldn't care less that the cicada gets eaten lol. It's just the fact that that squirrel had no qualms about eating it's face off. I guess it all tastes the same to them.
Jerrell Simmons but youre talking about at least let it be deceased first as if a squirrel is gonna give a shit about the ethics of eating another animal.
I lived in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, for a year and it just happened to be the time when the cicadas wake up... every tree was covered with them, and it was like living next to a railway with the longest train in the world!
I would literally die
i hope you picked up a rock and smashed them all
I'd have a box of Praying Mantises, birds, and raccoons just to feed to those things. They made me suffer, now I return the favor.
@@spookysioux1224 you get used to the noise. You can eventually tune it out and not even notice it.
@@dingusdingus2152I actually love the noise after living in the south, if you sleep with a fan for white sound don’t judge people who enjoy the sound of the steroid cricket.
They're really screaming about their existential nightmare
I'm Mr. Cicada, look at me!
THIS IS HORRIBLE! I JUST WANT TO FUCKING DIE!
falls into pond
*crunchy babies*
2:52 Racoon be like I'll take one thank you.
i love that part it was eating those cicadas like they were a bowl of chips
Lmao that shit was funny
Exactly 😂
I’m your 666th like, someone buy me a cookie
and by that I mean the hooker by the corner who calls herself cookie.
i know, it was the fkn cutest thing ever!
Nobody:
Cicadas every 17 years: AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I think its relaxing probably becaus ei have to listen to them every year
@@isaiahleonard9352 مخ.ة
@@isaiahleonard9352 ن" ت
ن ت خ
Now let us have a moment of silence for those cicadas that died a virgin, RIP...
I guess I managed to find the virgin in the comment section
2:51 watching that Trash panda grab that one cicada made me laugh.
"lemme just grab one of these real quick."
James Ambrocio I’m glad I’m not the only one because I burst into laughter too
Same! 😂😂😂😂😂✔✔✔✔✔
Trash pandas 😂😂
It's fun to see it grabbing and gobbling cicadas up like they're pop corn.
LOL OMG SAME
2:52 the little hand just casually grabs it😂
"Scuseeee me"
That was just so funny to me!
LMAOOOO
As I was sitting here watching this squirming, that little hand made me laugh so hard🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yoink!
🤣🤣🤣
It's astounding! It's almost as if their purpose is just to feed the forest, keep the nutrients cycled throughout wildlife and then deteriorate back into the Earth and leaving babies to continue the process in 17 years. I'm in Awe
Intricate and complex design of the Eco system, something that is surely no coincidence.
Great comment friend
@@warchieftitan5045 Im going to have to comment as well. The complexity of this ecosystem is just too much for coincidence
@@cantinandaba4419 Yes, It's almost as if some naturally occurring selection process led to a niche being filled
@@MrMyers758 keyword; "almost". Reality is often stranger than fiction.
@@cantinandaba4419 It is, but fiction is easier to understand for some people...
Cicada's are so cute. Their clumsiness only adds to it. Yes, as adults they're eaten quickly, but these organisms are 17 years old when that happens! They've had long happy lives! They live longer than many of the mammals that eat them. Incredible.
Most cicadas definitely aren’t clumsy. The fly away very quickly when they feel threatened. This species probably has strength in numbers.
"Happy Lives"
Cute 🤮 I was traumatized by them.😂😂😂
@@suglojaI'd say it's pretty difficult to be traumatized by them when they don't have anything to hurt you with!
Embrace these awesome creatures! ❤️
The empty shed shells, meanwhile, evolve into Ghost-types with only 1 HP
Then, after killing 100,000 Ghost Cicadas, the Angry Cicada Tornado is summoned. All other creatures within a 1km radius are bitten to death.
Oh you mean shedinja, in the games, it sucks
@@lheiannajheancarino9480 you could use it in some convoluted way probably
Only if you have an empty space in the party and some pokeballs
Nincada Ninjask Shedinja
Seeing the racoon hand out of nowhere just casually pick up a cicadas really make me giggle
Dat Guy I thought it was unexpectedly funny, too!
Right?! Raccoon be like “Ima eat this one and this one and this one...
It had to be a
raccoon-San haha 😄 😆..
They always want piece of action
I was like where the fuck is that hand coming from😂😂😂
Like when you absentmindedly reach your hand into a bag to grab another chip. lolz.
Who's watching this in 2020 when they are set to return in a month??
for me, its happening right now in my backyard
@@krispapplesauce4801 RUN!!
The outbreak is supposed to happen next year where I live apparently
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are cicidas dangerous?
"At first there are merely thousands"
MERELY thousands.....god bugs are terrifying
They do make up about 80% of all animal species. Guess it's a good thing they are mostly just here for other animals to eat lol
@@japanesemyth or to eat eachother, or do maintenance on whatever biome they live in (decomposition, pollination, etc). I'm glad that, for the most part, they are each directly beneficial to at least several species just by existing.
Even locusts
The only thing they do to be hated by us humans is being ugly and making noises
plot twist: they're living a hell of a life, undisturbed for 17 years underground and mate as their last wish
Sloppy seconds!
Sounds like human
Animals every 17 years:
*WE DINE ON CICADAS!*
I'm here literally because they're supposed to be coming this year
I heard that they’re coming next year wtf 😰
Duuude they be invading my tree every summer, I’m SO glad I sleep on the other side of the house, but hey, that’s gonna do nothing now
😂
I'm pretty sure they're emerging in 2021, but some are emerging early in other places
I'm figuratively here because they're supposed to be coming this year.
Seeing all the different forest critters feasting on the clumsy cicadas is oddly satisfying.
Perspective about squirrels changed dramatically.
That clip scarred me 😰
Squirrels est meat to bro
Hahahaha
@@SO-CS aww haha
‘‘Twas a chipmunk not a squirrel
I love cicadas. They may look scary, but they're actually really chill, you can pick them up and they simply don't care and will stick around with you for a while. Cool, nice bugs.
You guys are weirdos I don't understand the fascination with ugly gross creepy bugs.
@@TheLegacy87 THEN WHY ARE YOU HERE!?
I collect them these speices are in Ohio.
TOMATO KING Tomato King I live in Ohio too. They were fucking huge last emergence
@@Kit76879 To understand what we fear
I would gladly argue that no one on this Earth appreciates the sound of cicadas as much as I do.
My early childhood, being chased around by the empty husks of these monster bugs!
I remember being chased in 2004 when they came out 🏃🏿♀️
Cicadas to forest animals: Thanksgiving X Christmas.
Cyber Maverick Gamer If Thanksgiving happened once in our lifetime
My brother are a cicada. Apparently it tastes like nuts.
2:17 Hmm... Didn't know Mitch McConell ate cicadas. Learn something new every day.
Could not stop laughing at this. I'm happy people are fluent in politics.
Haha! Always thought he looked like a turtle in a suit wearing glasses. Btw, Conan O'Brien has talk-show episodes where he makes fun of Mitch's turtle-like appearance and egg-laying habits. Hilarious!
Dude your comment literally made me laugh out loud. Oh my....
More like Bret Baier
Mr. Chip Whitley Mitch McConnell is a cicada
Squirrels, birds, raccoons, and frogs are heroes.
Yeah i am annoyed by their buzzing. I also find their shells disgusting.
Noo cicadas did nothing wrong T___T
Think again, buddy... about everything cicadas had been doing underground during those years...
@@ChainikB its called life buddy, nothing is fair :)
@@lil_orbits2658 but we can change it, maybe a little, but we can
I remember seeing these when I was in preschool. I’m now a junior in college and they’re coming back
Man those Cicadas, they get a wife and call it a life.
@Jubei Yang So you're saying get married have kids then die right after?
@@vilenationgaming about sums it up.
Watching that squirrel chow down on one freaked me out! I thought squirrels were herbivores.
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EEEEEwwwwww!!!! My Mom's friend told me that the squirrels were eating the birds as a joke after we were hit by a tornado. He made fun of me for being so gullible. Wait till I show him THAT! Thank you so much
john difrancisco 🤔, 😲
No problem, I'm happy I was helpful! :D o7
john difrancisco not a squirrel its a chipmunk
Maybe Cicada 3301 is waiting for those 17 years to be up before the reemerge...
Squidward: “As if the answers to all your problems, will fall right out of the sky HA HA HA! FALL RIGHT OUT OF THE SKY!!!
Cicada: “Dude were falling right out of the sky!”
Wooloolooo
Nymphs: “Let’s climb this gigantic tree and THEN grow wings!”
Get to the kitchen!
Strummer1980 get to the gulags
I noticed Lorne Armstrong asked you to email him many years ago. I was wondering if you ever had a convo with him.
how do u fly off the ground it’s easier to glide up there
Wait what did I say?
2020 is a nightmare
@@kalebthompson8303 fu*k 2020
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
I guess its one thing thats good about 2020 is all of the animals in the world are healing (in some ways)
Really? Locusts and Cicadas together in the same year??
I live in Texas and have been hearing a "rattling" sound for the last 3 weeks or so. I was also finding carcasses and had no clue what they were until I looked it up. It sounds like a forest full of cicadas where I live. Pretty wild. They look like little aliens.
This is record-breaking footage! No prior documentary has captured as many forest creatures in one roll of film as this one has. From racoons and squirrels to skunks, and from rare birds to turtles. Simply extraordinary.
It's like Bambi with more bugs.
I happen to live in an area that gets 17 year cicadas. This video misrepresents it. It's not a few days. It's a whole summer of cicadas. They are not so impeccably timed to come out all at once. I'd say within two weeks. But there's some much overlap between the waves of oncoming and not-dying-as-quick-as-they're-supposed-to cicadas that the thing goes from May to August. Granted, by August, it's mostly a sea of cicada carcasses with a good number still moving around for whatever reason. A whole bunch come the year before and after, too, as a sort of lost brigade from the main army. Yeah, I experienced cicada summer. Another one coming up in just a few years! From the DC metro area.
So true I live In delaware and these things are here all fricken summer.I hate them!
A fine gentleman known as the Sovietgangsta is teaching us. Good times!
@@deadhomieorchestra5270 hahahaha
Truth! I, too, live in an area that has the 17 yr cicadas. It is EXACTLY like he says.
@@Bozbaby103 will it happen again 17 yrs later or next year u can see it again?
good to know i'm not the only one that goes outside every 17 years
Seddi You too? Yeah brother
I always liked the novel of the Cicada that was reincarnated as a Dragon. His one regret as a Cicada was that he spent his last three days finding a mate only to be eaten by a bird.
I hear these every summer an have their exoskeleton all over my backyard.
As Grandpa used to say, "The early worm gets eaten by the bird."
2:37 Imagine coming aboveground after 17 years, only to have your face eaten by a chipmunk.
😅😅😅
What's the different? You literally sleep for 17 years and wake up for 2 days then fuck and die. What a utterly purposely creature.
@@randybobandy9828 w8 I dont think that happens to ppl
@@moonondp4173 no it doesn't why would you think that?
I live in the Midwest and the swarm of 2021 was incredible.I at the time was working for an arborist and there was nowhere to step without stepping on one.They were loud,but amazing to handle and watch! Never in my life have I seen such amazing entomology!,I can’t wait for the next swarm!
I'm jealous of the people who get to see this happen, I love cicadas but they're pretty rare where I live, I've only seen one though I hear more of them during the spring
That’s a very mature perspective. Many joke about how annoying they are without realizing how special and bizarre this phenomenon is.
17 years of sleeping then wake up, lay eggs then die after a few days. what a life..
I don't think they are sleeping the whole time; maybe they don't sleep at all. They grub around among the tree roots until it's time to emerge.
Greg Scott thanks for the info. i thought they're hibernating the whole time.
fluffimator yeah it's not like us humans change history or make a difference in the world or anything
Same
@@EmdrGreg i also have a feeling for insects 1 day for us is 100's of days for them.. Because most of them live for only a few days
1:23 Congratulations! Your NINCADA evolved into a NINJASK
And the shell is SHEDNINJA.
Tati R Pokémon fandom too huh?
Lose my interest after reaching 40 on 2019.
"Oh I'm so hungry, wish it rained food today" said the turtle and lo!
Imagine waiting a whole 17 years to be an adult just to trip on a leaf and get eaten by a turtle.
The adult was laying the eggs in the tree branch but the pupae rose up out of the ground. When and how does the transfer to the ground happen?
DavisOnABike
After the babies hatch
I do believe you are correct, however that's a 17 year window. I was hoping for a more specific answer? Anyway, nevermind, I googled it which is probably what I should have done to begin with.
From what I heard, the larvae embed themselves into the tree branch and eventually the branch dies and falls down to the ground. That's when they bury themselves.
DavisOnABike from what I've read, the eggs hatch and the larvae fall to the ground, and they then immediately start burrowing into the ground and find a root from which they shall suckle during their entire underground existence.
DavisOnABike When they hatch, the new nymphs purposely fall to the ground and immediately start burrowing into the soil in search of plant roots to feed off of until they are fully grown and ready to molt.
Shout-out to my people in the Appalachian mountains! It's time, baby.
Yep, by thunder, I'm gonna get out my cicada-shotgun & *BAG ME A BUSHEL* !!
This is happening right now except for both broods are coming out of the ground and they are making one hell of a noise in my backyard .
wait... did he say billion? like with a B? Like, one thousand million?!
Yeah, one 🅱️ *ILLION* cicadas, with a 🅱️
Paco Umm Billion is one hundred million...not one thousand Billion...and yep he said Billion...
TheGoldenAnvil umm.... You are actually mistaken, one billion is a thousand million. If u don't believe me, just google it
TheGoldenAnvil billion in 10^9
Jonathan Williams I am not an American but I know English...British English...
Imagine waking up one day with a hotel buffet in your bedroom.
"The life cycle of ratchet screwdriver fruit is quite interesting. Once picked it needs a dark dusty drawer in which it can lie undisturbed for years. Then one night it suddenly hatches, discards its outer shell which crumbles to dust, and emerges as a totally unidentifiable little metal object with flanges at both ends and a sort of ridge and a sort of hole for a screw. This, when found, will get thrown away. No one knows what it is supposed to gain from this. Nature, in her infinite wisdom, is presumably working on it." - (Douglas Adams, Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy)
they are on their way rn
I didn't know squirrels eat bugs
Billy G Squirrels are omnivorous
squirrels eat mice too, the grey ground squirrels are horrible tree rats destroy properties too and in the UK they are invasive and invade the red squirrel habitats
@@damoos3. We tend to dislike any wild animals which are well adapted to coexisting with humans and human activity, but humans are the most invasive and destructive species of all. Squirrels can be a huge pain in the ass but they're here to stay. At least they're cute.
Squirrels eat anything. Last Easter we went and "planted" jelly beans for them to "grow" into suckers and we had a squirrel come and snatch one of the suckers lol
@@helliott2033 my hunting friend said they will eat each other once one dies.
did they wait 17 years to film these?
they just record when they go above
drumond fanton
They just counted forward 17 years from the last occurence and said 'we'll film then'.
Yeah. they set up tents and wait 17 years.
Yes, they send people to wait in the middle of a forest for 17 years.
hmm... that's a long wait in the forest
(๑-﹏-๑)
It's like a warzone for them when they emerge.
I love cicadas. In Brazil, there are clever species, but the most common one spends around 4 years underground. Every year there is a cycle that completes, and they emerge during the summer with their chanting: sssssiiiisssssiiisssssiiiiissssssiiiiissssssii...
They forgot at the end where I began stealing all of their exoskeletons.
Every 17 years they amaze me !! From my childhood I remember them and several times afterwards . I'm 70 now and this year they came out again !!♡!!
>coming out after 17 years in the nest
>screams for mating
>dies
Was 5yrs old in 76, in Philadephia on vacation. Collected tons of the shells to bring back home to Chicago for show and tell. 👍
Had I been an Entomologist, the Cicada would have been my favorite. Love hearing the Cicada orchestra tune up and play their full, albeit, short performances, repeatedly. Excellent video BBC Earth, thank you.
I hate the word "albeit", almost as much as I hate the words "issue" and (everybody's all-time favorite) "ABSOLUTELY"...
@@CLASSICALFAN100 seriously! Literally ! Add em to it.
As a wise philosopher once put quite elegantly, and I quote: “I order the food, you cook the food, the customer gets the food. We do this for 40 years, and then we die.”
Cicadas attack: Exist
Every american: loads shotgun
*loads flamethrower*
Nah we like cicadas
I love the smell of napalm in the morning
Cicadas, the great forest stimulus package
Daddy Attenborough
*sir Daddy Attenborough
gator tho Lol.
cursed comment
I swear to God if you kink shamed David Attenborough by calling him "daddy".
The "singing" of male cicadas is produced principally and in the majority of species using a special structure called a tymbal, a pair of which lie below each side of the anterior abdominal region. The structure is buckled by muscular action and being made of resilin unbuckled rapidly on muscle relaxation and the rapid action of muscles produces their characteristic sounds. Some cicadas however have mechanisms for stridulation, sometimes in addition to the tymbals. Here the wings are rubbed over a series of mid-thoracic ridges. The sounds may further be modulated by membranous coverings and by resonant cavities.The male abdomen in some species is largely hollow, and acts as a sound box. By rapidly vibrating these membranes, a cicada combines the clicks into apparently continuous notes, and enlarged chambers derived from the tracheae serve as resonance chambers with which it amplifies the sound. The cicada also modulates the song by positioning its abdomen toward or away from the substrate. Partly by the pattern in which it combines the clicks, each species produces its own distinctive mating songs and acoustic signals, ensuring that the song attracts only appropriate mates.
Average temperature of the natural habitat for the South American species Fidicina rana is approximately 29 °C (84 °F). During sound production, the temperature of the tymbal muscles was found to be significantly higher. Many cicadas sing most actively during the hottest hours of a summer day; roughly a 24-hour cycle. Most cicadas are diurnal in their calling and depend on external heat to warm them up while a few are capable of raising their temperature using muscle action and some species are known to call at dusk. Kanakia gigas and Froggattoides typicus are among the few that are known to be truly nocturnal and there may be other nocturnal species living in tropical forests.
Although only males produce the cicadas' distinctive sounds, both sexes have membranous structures called tympana by which they detect sounds; the equivalent of having ears. Males disable their own tympana while calling, thereby preventing damage to their hearing; a necessity partly because some cicadas produce sounds up to 120 dB (SPL) which is among the loudest of all insect-produced sounds. The song is loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss in humans should the cicada be at "close range". In contrast, some small species have songs so high in pitch that they are inaudible to humans.
For the human ear, it is often difficult to tell precisely where a cicada song originates. The pitch is nearly constant, the sound is continuous to the human ear, and cicadas sing in scattered groups. In addition to the mating song, many species have a distinct distress call, usually a broken and erratic sound emitted by the insect when seized or panicked. Some species also have courtship songs, generally quieter, and produced after a female has been drawn to the calling song. Males also produce encounter calls, whether in courtship or to maintain personal space within choruses.
The song of cicadas is considered by entomologists to be unique to a given species, and a number of resources exist to collect and analyse cicada sounds.
SOUNDS LIKE RATTLESNAKE UP IN THE TREES
Here because brood X is emerging again this late spring 2021, and because I can already here them at night!
So cool and guess what the 17 cicada is coming back again this year after 17 years
they really are clumsy lol they always fall out of the tree's then get themselfs tangled in the grass somehow. i have to pick them up for them to fly away.
The animals be like "after 17 years, we're finally eating"
Just looking at it makes my neck itch.
But this really is a fascinating creature.
They’re harmless but they’re big and loud.
That environment with a billion cicadas flying around is literal hell on earth for me cuz of my phobia for bugs.... but for the other animals that eat them , it's heaven... perspectives can be so contrasting
2:38 That Squirrel is a badass
Get to the kitchen!
That’s a chipmunk and yes he is
My grandparents have a cabin in the woods and every 17 years it gets overran with cicadas. It's so crazy to see
Nobody:
Absolutely no one:
Every animé summer day: *_C I C A D A S_*
I CAME HERE FOR THIS COMMENT! Anime always had cicadas in it. So weird I'm glad someone else noticed this also.
@@SingPandaProductions xD
This happened where I lived as a kid when I was in my early teens. You could not walk anywhere without crunching on the shells! I also noticed that there are always a few that come up every year that are not on schedule.
Rachel V K
Different cicada species. The ones that emerge in swarms stick to schedule.
Such an amazing life cycle, so much to learn from nature.
How they got this kind of footage is beyond me but it’s amazing ever single time.
I think they used something called a "camera". Just a wild theory.
Imagine having a longer childhood than a being that lives 5-6 times longer.
Ive lived through about 4 of these events here in chicago and let me just say it is a sight to behold. The sound is deafening and cars actually get into accidents bc they slip on the highways from all the cicadas on the floor and they even make the sky dark. My dog literally eats as many as possible. As kids we would tie a string to them and fly them around. My ex wife who grew up in California never experienced it till she came here and she freaked out all the time screaming they were in her hair. It was awesome!
What I find funny is how often people think 17 year cicadas are an event like Haley's comment. Not actually paying attention that they come out every year.
Indeed, and yes Attenborough, even the same areas.
He made a rather silly comment at the very end.
The cicadas that turn up every year are not 17-year cicadas.
I cannot understate just how LOUD these damn things are! I was walking through a wooded area on an island in North New Zealand, and I could barely hear the music in my earphones above the constant high pitched buzzing of these critters - it was loud enough to give me a headache!
Back in 2020, I visited my family for Mother's Day when the cicadas were out in my hometown of Roanoke, Virginia. The woods in our backyard were a constant cacophony and it was fascinating. The next year, I was fortunate enough to see them again when they emerged in Northern Virginia, where I currently live. So a cool think to experience back-to-back years, and I even saw snapping turtles in a marsh off the Potomac eating them just like in the video. Incredible insects.
I just learned squirrels have no feelings. 😂
This is the 17th year for them now, i didnt think it actually looked this bad
The Call at 1:42 gave me chills. They are truly a wonder of nature.
I hear them every year. Maybe every 17 years is when a lot of them come out.
I think you might be correct. Here in Florida, we to hear them every single year ~~~~ however, *this* year they seem to be much louder (very relentless) ~~ I can even hear them with the doors shut and the TV on...... WOW!!
Am I the only one that found 2:52 hilarious lol
Jaytee Tayla no
yes
You're not the only one. It was super funny.
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