Let's Talk About American Cicadas | Part 2
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In today's video, I present part two in a 2-part series looking at the North American phenomenon of periodical cicadas.
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Midwest summer, July 4th, 95 degrees, high humidity, loud cicadas. Fireworks go BOOM, cicadas go quiet.
Cicadas get loud, BOOM, cicadas go quiet.
This reminds me of when I saw the total solar eclipse in Kansas City back in 2017 (despite the clouds). The birds and cicadas hushed when it got dark when it went into totality and then they started screaming when the sun came back out.
😂😂😂 🎇 (Cicada: "OOH, they got me!)
Cicadas are a sound that should seem annoying, but I actually find very soothing.
Depends on the species for me. Some years they can make a much more grating sound than others, and louder, too.
My favorite variety have a synchronized pattern to their song that goes like 'WHER WHER Wheeeerrr... WHER WHER Wheeeerrr...' a lot better than the ones who do the constant shrill droning.
Sort of like frogs and crickets.
Cicadas singing me to sleep is a good thing. It's the song of my summers and youth. I love the little ugly things.
I love hearing crickets at night during the warm weather. 😊
@@sandisteinberg731and spring peepers when things first warm up.
I live in a zone with annual cicadas every year. I did live in Maryland during an emergence.
I love the sound of cicadas
They are part of my childhood memories
The term "periodical cicadas" makes me wonder if there's a magazine called "Cicada Monthly."
My favorite fact about cougars is that they don't roar. They make a variety of noises, sometimes sounding like chirping birds, sometimes like crying babies, and sometimes like meowing housecats. They also purr.
I don't know if it's true or not, but I heard that if a big cat can roar, they can't purr, and vice versa. Anyone else hear about that or have information to the contrary?
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The last Cougar I encountered called me "Baby" and tried to buy me a drink...
@@rainbowtropolis they’re the biggest cat that can purr, apparently
@@rainbowtropolisLions roar and Tigers purr. I think Lions purr. I may be wrong. 🤔🤔
"soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur. big kitty, hungry kitty, rip, shred, purr"
😂😂😂
That's a more realistic version.
I'm going to sing this.
@@susanheston4483 if it goes platimum, I expect a shout out.
@@kenbrown2808 That's a definite. I want an autographed copy.
@susanheston4483 absolutely.
Cicadas are the sound of summer - I grew up in Northern Illinois!
Me too, Lake County.
The cicada mating ritual had a profound affect on my life in a tangential way. Thirty five years ago I met my future wife in the Denny's in Franklin Park Illinois. We took an interest in one another and started dating. One day a week or so later we stopped at a small park in Park Ridge to play catch (Baseball, not cricket...that would have been too perfect.) Anyway, it was a cicada year, and she was positioned about 20 feet from a honeysuckle bush that was burdened with hundreds of cicadas. While we were playing (she was pretty damned good) a cicada ran into her and went right down the neck of her tee shirt and started furiously buzzing around down there. She started yelling and pulling at her shirt to get the thing out, but apparently it had found a cozy place to hang on and flap his wings, which resulted in her ripping her tee shirt off to free the little bastard. This is about the time that the profound effect on my life occurred. We were married about 6 weeks later and the rest is history...we are still together. (Just for fun, I looked up the GPS coordinates of this epic event in case you want to try your luck 😝 42° 0'32.96"N 87°51'27.55"W)
I grew up about a block away from Al & Joe's!
When I was a school boy in Tennessee I saw cicada's often flew into girl's long hair. They have these ridges on their legs (the cicadas) and they really stick into long hair. I always offered to remove them, and I knew how to do that. They appreciated the help (the girls) and that made me happy.
YT has a video of a Chicago area zoo. Shows the animals having a field day eating the cicadas. Especially the meerkats.
I had a dog who ate cicadas - 😋
The army of cicadas is deafening - especially if you have tinnitus. We had a brood hatch in 2022 and I was astounded how loud they were.
I live in Texas and Cicadas are out and about every summer. To me, the sound of Cicadas means it is hotter than hell outside.
We have annual cicadas here in Minnesota, too. Every summer.
As a child I loved to play with cicada exoskeletons. You could hook them on your shirt and wear them! Lol. This all happened in Arkansas at my grandmothers house. We also chased and collected fireflies in a jar!
Hey! Me too! Was that you over at me-maw's house?
@@bpbp8597 possibly
Other than the fact that our house is covered in cicada shells, we didn’t really notice a huge swarm invasion that disrupted our lives. Buuuut there were a few days when we saw the bird version of D-Day as the birds were dive bombing and caching cicadas out of the air in a giant swarm. It was an absolute feast and massacre.
Wow
Every Arizona monsoon season has cicadas. They are VERY LOUD!
Yeah, those are the annual cicadas and we get those too later in the year. These are the periodic cicadas, and the difference is they come out in the most insane numbers. You couldn’t walk down the path to the front door of my office without being divebombed by them. We sit by the windows, and we were just watch people walking in flapping their arms, and then we’d yell to the receptionist "cicada check", because there be one or two on their back. Also, the annual cicadas typically start they’re singing right around dusk. The periodic cicadas do it all day long.
I was just thinking that we haven’t heard much from the cicadas yet this year. I did find a dead Palo Verde beetle. Look them up. They are absolutely huge.
Fig beetles (metallic green on the bottom) are my favorites
Logged into youtube and this was posted 9 seconds ago? Heck yes, let's watch about cicadas!
9 seconds... I think you beat me to it! 🤣
The last time I experienced the periodic cicadas, they were so loud that with the car windows up, the air conditioning on, and the radio playing you could hear the cicadas!
I love when they get loud enough to generate a higher overtone. It's a clearer omnidirectional ringing sound as if the buzz is reflecting off the sky.
Very well. My favorite fact about cougars is that I once observed a cougar casually ambling through my front yard. No, I did not go outside to introduce myself.
And you are the healthier for that.
We had lots of them around my office in Wheeling, Illinois. Not only were they loud; they totally creeped me out. They would fly down from the trees going near my head. No no no no no.
Lol. I went to my local gas station the other day and thank God people understood when I went to my car I was flapping my arms around to avoid these shits.
They are super harmless, though. They physically are incapable of biting because they have a straw like mouth part.
@@ANPC-pi9vu it’s not the biting that creeped me out. It’s them getting stuck in my hair. That’s an absolute no for me.
The fact you have to clarify "cougars" is hilarious!
One of the funniest things ever was Ozzy man's voice over of the cougar chasing the runner in Colorado.
My favorite fact about cougars is that they like catnip.
Here in Oregon they're quieter than the ones back east, so much so that I never knew we even had them.
Near me, in the west suburbs of Chicago, they were incredibly loud, 92 dB in my back yard, with a background level of mid-70's - by way of comparison, last time I drove down the highway to downtown Chicago, I rolled down the windows, and rush hour traffic with the windows rolled down was about 75-78 dB
the thing I like doing with cicadas is taking their exoskeletons off where they are perched and then sneak it onto someone's shirt so they freak out
cicadas and katydids sing me right to sleep. so calming.😴🍻
Katydids serenade you for a few hours in the evening and then know when to shut up. Periodical cicadas scream and scream and scream until you want to rip your ears off.
We must have different varieties of cicadas. The ones where I live just scream. It's one of the most unattractive sounds I've ever experienced.
Laurence, there are different kinds of cicadas. The dog-dayccicadas come every summer, but the big broods of periodical cicadas come out every 13 or 17 years. I drove to Illinois from Maryland last month to hear them sing,
Here in the Deep South of.... Canada, I heard my first Cicada of the summer season today. We don't have cyclical cicadas-- (Canada banned anything to do with Prime Numbers in 1893) we just have regular ones. So, we don't get crunchy underfoot cicadas, just nice summer background music cicadas. I happen to love them, but not in the Alabama way. It's platonic.
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It's not just a sound. They will swarm and fly around so much. I have looked out my window to see them flying.
My kitties were scared at first to go on my porch, I have an enclosed porch, then one little shit.started capturing them and bringing into the house.
You sound a little kinky there to me Canuck 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Grettings from Mississippi 😁
Oh my god you just won 🏆 this is the best response yet. I literally laughed so hard I snorted, in a very unladylike manner. And go called out on it. 😂😂😂
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My favorite fact about Cougars is that my neighbor saw one on his back porch, and not on mine. Oh, and they are also known as Mountain Lions, Pumas, Panthers, and Catamounts.
Tell him to send her my way. 😏
My husband and I saw a cougar casually crossing the road near the Cougar Mountain Wildlife Park east of Seattle. Amazing, but we were happy to be in our car.
My brother frequently gets a visit from cougars/mountain lions (that's what he said they call them in Colorado.
About 25-30 years ago, I was at a National Wildlife Refuge in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I asked one of the rangers if there were any cougars in the U.P. He immediately said "NO!" The civilian volunteer, sitting nearby said "I had one in my front yard". Several years and a few trail cam pictures later, the DNR finally said "Yes" 😁
Since you are losing it in the pond, let me ponder your story and respond shortly. (Do you know any more pond puns? Just trying to be punny.)
Should have hopped in your car and come to the southwest suburbs. Downers Grove, Woodridge, Darien, Bolingbrook-literally millions of cicadas! Piles of them under trees. The sound was deafening!
I used to live in Downers Grove, Woodridge and Bolingbrook (I'm now in Aurora), and I can confirm Especially bad in DG. I remember the trees in that old small cemetery downtown being covered top to bottom with cicadas.
Joys of living in a matured neighborhood. All those old trees. We're a block from the Des Plaines river; those trees are all thick with cicadas!
Up here in Mundelein I've yet to hear one.
I was house hunting in those areas last month and the cicadas were crazy! One even stowed away and snuck into my car 😂
It's sad to me. Growing up, my family on both sides always lived in areas where Cicada are common. These days, those areas have been "developed", and the sounds of nature were replaced with cars.
In California they are currently building a bridge for wild animals, such as cougars a.k.a. mountain lions, so that they can safely cross the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles. The bridge is expected to be completed in late 2024 or early 2025. It is hoped that the bridge will prevent the wildlife from being killed by cars and that it will expand their "genetic diversity". There was a famous Los Angeles cougar named P-22 who was quite the celebrity in the Griffith Park area (also famous for the Hollywood sign) who had to be euthanized in December 2022 due to several long term health issues. In May 2024 a new mountain lion was spotted on the western edge of Griffith Park that was once P-22's territory. The newcomer has not been tagged so there is little information available about the animal other than photographs.
Genetic Diversity---I hope the bridge works, cuz right now the Santa Monica mountain lions make the Hapsburgs look out-bred.
@@FallacyBites Nice one! LOL
My favorite fact about cougars is they remind Californians that they aren't always the top of the food chain.
Certain californians prove to 99% of other californians that they aren't on top of the food chain either..mountain lions are the LEAST concern to humans in that state
So humans are the top of the food chain everywhere we are it doesn't matter. That don't mean a human can fight one.
I ❤️ cougars 😊
Bears too.
I'm Mex-American from South Texas-we always call them chicharras!
I went to tennessee and I saw SO many Cicadas, I saw a lot of dead ones on the ground... and the sound, it was very interesting!
That's what I'm saying!
I live in Tennessee, and they were all over the place, so I’m not at all surprised that you saw (and heard) so many of them.
I'm in North Alabama. There were two kinds here in the Spring, both making loud noises.
I'm laughing at the guy watching Lawrence on the telly...
Hearing the relatively few cicadas we have helps one understand how Egyptians would fear a locust swarm.
One of my favorite childhood memories is waking up super early one morning and finding freshly emerged cicadas drying out by their empty shells. I had only ever seen their shells left behind on trees before that moment, so I thought it was pretty cool to find them "mid-shed".
As a lifelong west coaster, Ive never seen a cicada, and my favorite thing about cougars, which are also called mountain lions, is that they hardly ever attack or kill humans unlike humans themselves, who do it often.
One of my favorite voiceovers ever is Ozzy man's voice over of the cougar chasing the runner in Colorado
We got cicadas in Phoenix
@@LindaC616 now I have to go look that up, thanks
There’s mad cicadas on the west coast too! It’s so deafening here in Arizona you can’t even concentrate sometimes, I’ve also heard them really loud in Utah and New Mexico. I can guarantee you 100% there’s multiple species in California too. There’s nowhere in the U.S. that doesn’t have cicadas
@@KayentaRojo I was looking for this. Lived on the West Coast for 40+ years and there are definitely cicadas there where I lived. I don't believe they get as loud there as they do in some parts of the country. I live in VA now and at times they get so loud as to make your ears ring when the noise stops, only to start back up again after a few minutes. I believe there may be a LOT more of them here. Different climate or even different species in different areas of the country makes for the wide variety in volume/decibels of the sound assaults we are subjected to every summer.
You should visit Florida. Summers always have annual cicada sounds. It's definitely the soundtrack of southern summers year after year.
Cicadas only come out every 17 years even here in Florida. You’re hearing crickets.
@@santamanone 13 and 17 year. Cicadas are heard in many states year after year after year, every year the Cicadas you hear were laid 13 or 17 years ago.
We have annual cicadas in Chicago as well, they just started chirping last week.
Annual hurricane sounds.
Nope... we get them every single summer. I can prove it by the exoskeletons they leave behind everywhere!!! @santamanone
Here in New Jersey we have cicada songs every year. But I remember one summer about 30 years ago when my part of the state was absolutely inundated by cicadas! The suburban sidewalks around my house were littered with cicada wings that had been cast off by feasting predators. I collected many of them and saved them in a glass jar that I labeled “Fairy Wings”.
Cicadas are fascinating and horrifying at the same time! I’m in Indiana and our 17-year cicadas (brood X) came out in 2021. The noise was deafening. I have videos saved showing the noise to be 80-100 decibels just from neighborhood trees. Crazy!
I have moved south to a place that doesn't have cicadas, and when I went home for a visit a few weeks ago I found the cicada song to be very comforting, homey, and nostalgic ❤
LOVE cicadas and their sounds!
I lived over 40 years without knowing people ate cicadas. I also read that it is ill advised to eat more than 17 as they can be toxic or cause gastrointestinal distress or something. All I remember is that it just confirmed my hard NO to eating creepy critters. I do miss the cicada drone when I don't hear it. It's not a proper summer evening if the frogs or the cicadas aren't getting their freak on.
I'm told they are good in stir-fries. And make sure to pick the wings off as they get between one's teeth. My science teacher in high school was nuts.
If eating 17 is bad for you, I figure if I don't eat any I will be safe
I remember eating the shell they left behind after shedding but not the actual cicadas. And it has no taste really just super crunchy.
Gawd! I'm Central Illinois and so glad they are gone! They were eerily, deafening loud. They flew around, bombarding people... Just glad the noise is over!!
dang, I was about to say the opposite! 😁 Here in Peoria, there are some isolated spots where I hear them, but generally they haven't been visible/audible. Not sure what to conclude about that....
@@SkyhawkSteve you don't want the sound! It flows to one pitch to another CONSTANTLY , all day. You walk out going to work, little shits are there for you.
@@cindyp9857 True.. I don't need to hear them all day. There are some other sorts of cicadas here that are less annoying, but look the same. Honestly, it's those beady little red eyes that are especially creepy! Good luck with them!
Side note. I let my kitties out on our enclosed porch (keep the door propped open) and they were scared at first from the sound. They hesitated going outside. Finally got the nerve and one of my boys started bringing cicadas into house to "finish off". One's somewhere in the kitchen, can't find. Also saw birds sweeping like buzzards around my street/house. This is nature :)
@@SkyhawkSteve I saw a distribution map of the two periodic broods and they didn't overlap much and there were a few areas in the middle of Illinois (sorry don't remember exact locations) where apparently neither brood was expected.
I've always loved the drone of cicadas on summer evenings. Somehow, it's such a comforting sound - but maybe that's because I grew up in the South so it brings back childhood memories.
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Lived in Chicago for many years, I heard cicadas every summer but don’t remember ever seeing any. I used to see fire flies every summer too. Even though it’s really hot, summer is the best time in Chicago
female cicadas gouge a narrow trench in the new-growth green branch tips in which they lay their eggs. As the eggs hatch and the nymphs start to grow, they feed off of the tree branch sap, killing the branch tip. You will see lots of trees with branch tips that have browned off as if they were having a very localized Fall season. Once the branch tips beging dying off, the nymphs fall to the ground and then dig in for another 17 years, or 1 year, or 3 years, or 5 years or 11 years or 13 years - depending on the brood that came out that season and your geographical location.
Some years ago i was coming home from work in the early morning and i saw a cougar cross my road. My favorite fact about cougars was i was in my car.
There were millions upon millions of periodic cicadas and they made an ear-ringing din in areas of highest concentration. It was quite a spectacle. Fun fact: Brood XIII consists of three separate species of cicada that all emerge on the same 17-year cycle. (By the way, Fun Fact #2: I recently learned that it doesn't feel so good when a cicada attempts to land on your eyeball. 😝)
For those of us who grew up without AC, cicadas were the sound of summer ..
We have them in abundance in Texas this year
Is that right? Where are you? I'm in DFW and in my little area, they are pretty scarce this year, so far. Not complaining as I hate those ugly bastards. They chase me screaming!
I live in DFW as well and I don't normally hear them until almost August
My favorite fact about cougars is that they’re one of the most adaptable creatures in the world. They can live in pretty much any environment where they can find enough food to sustain them.
I loathe these creatures from the bottom of my heart, but seeing someone else experience them with such a positive outlook is nice.
I’m so glad that you got to see some cicadas. I know that there were tons of them at Brookfield Zoo, where the sound was almost deafening. Also, I saw a lot of cicadas while going out to College of DuPage for my Japanese class. Still, this is nothing like what was it, 1973? That emergence was insane. Even in the urban areas there were so many cicadas that the sidewalk went crunch when you walked on it. And dear me, Laurence, you are more morbid than I am. I have got a few more years on than you do, and just maybe I will see the next merchants of the cicadas at age 77.
They were falling out of trees by my house😮 I had 2 land on my shirt ,one my leg and one in my hair 😮. I got in my car then they started making that noice !!😮😮
At their last appearance, I took my kids to Brookfield Zoo. While standing in line for an attraction, a few jumped into my hair. The other people 8:41 in line had quite a show watching me try to get those !@#$ things out of my hair!
I was in Lilacia Park in Lombard, IL and it was LOADED with cicadas. The buzzing sound was incredibly loud
Now that the weather is scorching hot, the annual cicadas have started their chorus in central Texas. It's such a signature sound here that a local news station uses it as background sound in their ad rolls.
My first physical encounter with this year's cicada was the one that landed on my glasses and then hung on for dear life! Talk about creepy. The cicada's weren't bad at my house at all this year, thank gawd. But I had gone to my doctor's office in Oswego, and while driving thru the older part of town I was almost knocked off the road by the deafening sound of millions of cicadas, more than a few bouncing off my windshield. If they hadn't been singing so damn loud I probably would have heard the tires of my car crunching over their little bodies.
“Is it because I called you Freddy?” 😂😂😂 6:09
I live in Alabama. Two times I have seen mountain lions. About three years ago I saw a mountain lion in north Jefferson county. Another time , six years ago I saw a mountain lion in Calhoun County on a 28,000 acre National Guard training center.
When the 13 year cicadas emerged here in WV we had NONE in our backyard. Because our dogs spent 2 weeks digging them out of the ground and eating as they hatched. Poor bugs. But we had lots of cicadas everywhere else. Front yard, driveway, house, sidewalk, and of course all the trees not protected by the dogs!
After a while, that sound will drive you mad.
Right? It's a mating call yet there are a thousand of you men on the same BRANCH as me and vice-versa, why are you screaming??
The Dunn Museum in Libertyville, IL (a suburb of Chicago) has a really great exhibit all about cicadas! My nieces and nephews were in town last week, and really enjoyed learning all about these neat little critters. They don't have any on the east coast where they live, so this visit to Cicada Central was a fun experience.
Look up the Lake County Forest Preserve District. The Dunn Museum in Libertyville, Illinois. I believe the exhibit is open through August, or maybe just the beginning of August? Definitely open through July, so don't miss it!
My favorite cougar fact: Cougars are the largest cat that purrs.
I don't actually know if that's true: I've heard other big cats make noises that sound pretty much like purring to me. It could be, though, that theirs are low-throated hums, rather than produced by the specific bit of throat cartilage needed to produce an "official" purr.
I love the sound of cicadas. I remember hearing it as a child - a susserating curtain of sound - and, being a child, just accepted it as the background noise of summer. Since I've lived on the West Coast all my adult life, I'm unlikely to ever hear it live again, which makes me sad.
The sound of cicadas reminds me of my childhood as well, but the memory is anything but comforting.
I was 5 years old in 1961 when the 17-year swarm emerged where I lived in Virginia. In those times, children spent their summer days playing outdoors. Right after breakfast and getting dressed, Mom said, "Go play outside." And it wasn't a suggestion. 😉 I stood out on the front por and screamed like a girl in a slasher movie until she gave up and let me back in the house. Those giant bugs were everywhere and they flew right into you!!!! I am convinced this is the origin of my bug phobia to this day.
Just a slight cautionary true story. All children are not fascinated by those crunchy exoskeletons and giant red eyes. 🤠
I remember when I wasn’t a little kid seeing the 17yr cicadas for the first time. I absolutely loved them! I would try to count how many were on the trees, give them names, watch them hatch out of their shells. I even found an albino one once! I named that one Katie. I remember being so upset that I couldn’t see them again for another 17 years. Thinking “aww man, I’ll be in my twenties! I’ll be so old”. Now here I am, in my twenties seeing them again lol. Brought back lots of good memories.
I was born and raised in KS where cicadas were a perennial part of summer and in my 30s moved to Colorado where they where they are basically non-existent and frankly I missed them in the summer months. Thankfully years of loud guitars, loud guns and loud cars have left me with tinnitus that sounds a lot like cicadas. So I never had to miss the them since I brought my own wherever I went. Now that we're back in KS the cicadas (real and imagined) are a comfort. Seeing the fireflies again is cool too.
My favorite fact about cougars is, you have a better chance of falling off a cliff, than you do of running into a cougar.
What about running off a cliff and landing on a cougar, thus having two detrimental events cancel out each other?
A couple of things about my experience with cougars/mountain lions: I spent my childhood hiking and walking and camping and playing in some deep wilderness. My dad would tease us about mountain lions. "Did you see any cougars?" He would ask. We would always say "No." He'd smile and say "That's alright. They saw you, though." His point being that they were there, they just didn't want to be seen.
In my 53 years, the most I've ever seen of a cougar was a tail as it was running into some bushes. That was a decade ago.
My favorite fact about cougars (or mountain lions) is that they chirp instead of meow or roar.
That's the sound I heard every summer on my grandpa's farm across the road from a big woods.
You look forward to the end of the cicada season. I live in Texas and I look forward to their summer songs. Brings back a lot of great memories being a kid.
Lawrence - Your humor always brings me back... and no I hadn't notice the dog doing... it thing... until you mentioned it - lol
As a child in the early 60’s I remember a cicada year where there were so many around that walking home from school I could shuffle my feet through the exoskeletons on the sidewalk like they were fall leaves.
Being from the West Coast USA I never really had to deal much with June Bugs(Sometimes called May Beetles), Cicadas or even Fire Flies but after living in Ohio and now New Mexico, I have become quite familiar with them all. I am mostly grossed out by bugs so I wrote this little poem about June Bugs and Cicadas.
June Bugs
If I were ugly as a June Bug
I’d never have a date
But judging from their numbers
That has never been their fate
And what’s with those Cicadas
They are even homelier yet
Their body shaped more like a bus
Than a sexy sleek Corvette
Seems after dark when insects mate
Looks don’t come in to play
Wonder if there’d be so many
If they mated in the day
But oh the music that they make
When they do their mating dance
The gentle lulling song they sing
Leaves nothing left to chance
It lures their lovers to their nest
And woos them like champagne
The trees and shrubs are bopping
At the insect lover’s lane
So maybe they don’t really care
About looks or sexy acts
Or maybe I am just quite blind
To insect beauty facts
Sherry Gail Heim
August 2, 2003
Copyright © Sherry Gail Heim 2003
Loved it. Thank you for sharing.
Corn needs to be in tassel. That is usually when they come.
Grew up in South Jersey and there's a type of cicada there, when it flies it makes a sound like the rattling of an ancient screen door. They also dive right at you and tend to land right near you. It's like you're being dive bombed by a machine gun when it first happens to you. Great fun. Also NJ Pinelands has chiggers, another bugger that can make the unwary very unhappy the first time they encounter it. I loved being a kid in those swampy woods. Almost as good as being from Louisiana.
Cicadas appear every year even though the broods are 13 and 17yrs old. Some years the broods are larger then others, but I can't tell the difference. They're all just loud as hell every year. 😆
funny anecdote: i grew up in the pacific northwest next to a busy port, so i was very used to falling asleep to the sound of trucks, trains, and ships loading and unloading every night. my family moved to rural texas several years ago during the winter when the cicadas weren't out, and i made a friend who grew up in a little town (like population 15; her family had 10 people so they literally made up 2/3 of the population)
we went to a church camp together at a lake a couple hours away over the summer. at this lake, there was some kind of plant or facility -- maybe water purification? i don't think it was a power plant, so i'm not sure.
morning after my first night, i complained to my friend about how loud the cicadas were and how i could hardly sleep because of it. she gave me a blank stare for a minute before saying, "i honesltly didn't notice anything" with a shrug.
the next morning, she came to me complaining about how loud that plant across the lake was. i gave her that blank stare back -- i legitimately didn't even notice it was there until she pointed it out 😂 the only reason she didn't think i was crazy was because of the cicada incident the night before
we're still friends and she teases me about it to this day
Our cicadas were roaring all day today.
That sound makes me so nostalgic for 2021 😂 We had way more than what you saw, more than I’ll probably see again. I can’t imagine being upset at them landing on you either…they literally don’t bite. I miss the little weirdos.
LOL Love your videos they always brighten my day Keep up the great work 🥰🥰🥰
I've experienced 3 waves of the 17 year cicadas in western Pa. I was in 4th grade the first time . There were so many cicadas in our area, the outside of the house was covered completely and you couldn't walk 20 feet without being hit by lke 30 of them . I got in trouble for selling 4 for a quarter at school to kids who didn't have them lol. The next time I didn't see hardly any , this last time there were more but maybe 1/20th the amount
I survived a major onslaught of 17-year cicadas a while back. They have more than one song; one of them is the "UFO propulsion" noise heard in films and TV shows of the 50s and 60s. I observed that they seemed to prefer going on foot to flying, but they weren't very good at it. If they rolled over on their back they had real trouble rolling upright.
Here in Oregon a few years ago, they issued a warming of a cougar sighting on the social media account for SOSU. One student replied, "guys, that's just my mom visiting."
😂 I love your sense of humor!
I grew up hearing cicadas called (insert appropriate timespan) locusts or jarflies. Took a long time to start calling them cicadas.
my trees are screaming in hellish pain from the heat and Sacada lovin
I'm down in Champaign (about two hours south of Chicago for anyone wondering) and we didn't have it either. Which shocked me! I was honestly disappointed in the lack of screaming cicadas!
I live in Indiana now, but when I lived in NC, the cicadas were so many that you couldn't walk down the street without stepping on them. Ew
The "shooting cicadas" comment reminded me of a couple cycles ago, when I was using them as targets with my pellet pistol. They're quite the reactive target.
During the last major cicada explosions, I had the good fortune of being hit square between the eyes by a massive cicada during a property tour. It left a mark and definitely stunned me.
I do remember as a youth visiting my Indiana extended family, swatting them with tennis racquets. Eating cicadas? Crunchy and best with either peanut butter or hot sauce. Cheers!
I lived twenty - two years in San Diego. Never saw or heard a cicada. I grew up in MD, and now I am in WV. They have been strangely quiet this year
I think you should do a cross country trip and see all the different landscapes and cultures across our grand country. What if the anticipation of "where will they go next?!" might just be the ticket to push your subscribers up to a million?!
The we’re cousins really got me 😂😂
It’s a good thing you wore eye protection!
My favorite fact about cicada sound, it terms of pitch and frequency. But first, the backstory of how I discovered this fact:
I was on a work project in the Angeles national Forest in Southern California. I needed to bushwhack to reach a location where I was to make an observation. As I walked, I heard cicadas up ahead. Soon the sound was around me, but I realize that as I continue to walk, the sound behind me would go away and the sound in front would pick up. This was unlike cicada hatches from my past, which is that of a ubiquitous unseen thrumming machine. I reached an Arroyo where the sound stopped. Walking further down the Arroyo, I heard the sound very close to my left, near my ankle. I turned and looked down, and there the sound emanating identical to that of a cicada was coming from…a baby rattlesnake!
Fact: baby rattlesnakes sound like cicadas, or they know how to do a damn good impression of cicadas.
(Also, cicadas don’t appear to reside in Southern California.)
Now, if I bored you with the story before, my apologies as I am losing my short term memory .
I did not know that about baby rattlesnakes, and now I am a bit terrified. Great story though.
i'm glad you got to see them in action! locally i havent noticed them but when i visited my mom about 65 miles north it was lousy with cicadas. everyone walking outside had to shout to each other to be heard lol
You'll notice the affects of the cicada outbreak soon. The females have long ovipositors that they use to inject their eggs under the bark of small twigs and branches. This often has the effect of killing that branch or twig. So look for wilted and dying leaves in the coming weeks, and if you take a look, you'll see the injection points lined up along the twig.
My favorite cougar fact is that they’re quite gamey, but taste pretty good in pepperoni sticks.
I grew up in eastern Kansas and loved that racket late in the evenings when we played outside till 9 or 10pm when the cicadas were out. Only we called them "locusts" and it was a few years before I learned that was wrong. All I know is those evenings were full of fireflies, cicadas and june bugs (and mosquitoes of course) and the never ending heat and humidity where you lay in bed at midnight and sweat. No fans, no AC just clogged sinesus, and a hope for the next wave of severe weather that came weekly. (this was the 60's btw)
We didn't have cicadas in my neighborhood, but you can hear them driving by forest preserves!