They eat a tiny bit of plant juice after they change but their final form is almost exclusively for fricking. The only damage typically done is if tons of them try to lay eggs on the same trees. It's going to be a pretty nice year for everything that eats bugs though.
I love cicadas. I was driving through Alabama a couple of years ago, stopped to take a piss in the woods, and all I could hear in all directions was a million cicadas. Sounded like a magic forest
I have seen something like this before like over 25 years ago. They will be everywhere, super easy to catch. You can use them as live fishing bait. I usually use grasshoppers but these can work too.
>I’ve seen something like this before
Explain. The broods aren’t synched among the 13 year or 17 year periodical cicadas. You get one brood per season. Two broods per season is very rare, so rare that it hasn’t happened in two centuries. So what exactly do you think you saw? >there are more than two types
There are only two (2) types of periodical cicadas, divided into 15 broods.
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Is that what the """apocalypse""" is about? Because according to OP's map the broods only overlap in Illinois and Indiana.
And to those who haven't figured it out. 13 and 17 are prime, so the cycles only sync every 221 years.
man, I just realized I haven't heard a cicada in over a decade since moving to Denver. haven't seen a firefly either. All we get here are fricking moths
I feel for you. Summer does not exist to me if there are no cicadas. With that same logic depression kicks in once I stop hearing cicadas because summer ends. Not like it matters when you need to wage slave all summer though.
>southeast
that's just the south. Why do people keep calling it the southeast? I've even heard people who move here from up north call it that. Is it a regional thing or like an official designation that we don't use here or what?
What the frick did you just fricking say about me, you big b***h? I'll have you know I graduated loudest of my brood in the Cicada Carolers, and I've been involved in numerous years of sleeping in the ground, and I have over 300 confirmed decibels. I am trained in long term orgy choreography and I'm the top screecher in the entire US cicada forces. You are nothing to me but just another wienerblock. I will wake you the frick up with vibrations the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fricking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me before I moult? Think again, fricker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of flies across the USA and your BO is being traced right now so you better prepare for the song, maggot. The song that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your sleep. You're fricking awake, kid. I can screech anywhere, anytime, and I can be heard over seven hundred yards, and that's just with my bare ass. Not only am I extensively trained in solo singing, but I have access to the entire choir of the United States Cicada Corps and I will use it to its full extent to eliminate all silence off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fricking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will scream my horny song all over you and you will drowse in it. You're fricking tired, kiddo.
Anons do not get a puppy this year. I had a black lab puppy when ci dad came out really heavy. She ate dozens of them Everytime we went outside. The vet said it’s ok as long as they keep pooping and they don’t block them up but we couldn’t do any training just eating cicadas non stop. She liked them better than her treats.
> veggie eating agricucks seething
not my problem
they dont eat anything you dipshit
>veggie eating
Based southie with no reading comprehension.
Rice is a grain.
They eat a tiny bit of plant juice after they change but their final form is almost exclusively for fricking. The only damage typically done is if tons of them try to lay eggs on the same trees. It's going to be a pretty nice year for everything that eats bugs though.
I love cicadas. I was driving through Alabama a couple of years ago, stopped to take a piss in the woods, and all I could hear in all directions was a million cicadas. Sounded like a magic forest
Nice try cicadas, can't hear you over my military-grade tinnitus
Why dont they go past the Texas state border? Do all their exes live there?
It's just a really bad map
They don’t like all the spics
Cicadas are cool and it's fun when they come around
t. Kentucky
Why do people freak out about this every few years? They're just noisy bugs.
>every few years
13 or 17 isn’t “a few”.
>y tho?
This year is exceptional, as they will both emerge at the same time.
I have seen something like this before like over 25 years ago. They will be everywhere, super easy to catch. You can use them as live fishing bait. I usually use grasshoppers but these can work too.
It hasn’t happened since 1803 but ok.
There's more than two types of cicada homosexual
>I’ve seen something like this before
Explain. The broods aren’t synched among the 13 year or 17 year periodical cicadas. You get one brood per season. Two broods per season is very rare, so rare that it hasn’t happened in two centuries. So what exactly do you think you saw?
>there are more than two types
There are only two (2) types of periodical cicadas, divided into 15 broods.
Is that what the """apocalypse""" is about? Because according to OP's map the broods only overlap in Illinois and Indiana.
And to those who haven't figured it out. 13 and 17 are prime, so the cycles only sync every 221 years.
I live in KY and I'm pretty sure we have cicadas every single year, some years are worse than other though.
man, I just realized I haven't heard a cicada in over a decade since moving to Denver. haven't seen a firefly either. All we get here are fricking moths
I feel for you. Summer does not exist to me if there are no cicadas. With that same logic depression kicks in once I stop hearing cicadas because summer ends. Not like it matters when you need to wage slave all summer though.
Kek same and also don't hear frogs.
But there aren't any mosquitoes either so it balances out
>southeast
that's just the south. Why do people keep calling it the southeast? I've even heard people who move here from up north call it that. Is it a regional thing or like an official designation that we don't use here or what?
The country tripled in sized since the last time your ancestors didn't marry a cousin.
A CICADA JUST FLEW OVER MY HOUSE
What the frick did you just fricking say about me, you big b***h? I'll have you know I graduated loudest of my brood in the Cicada Carolers, and I've been involved in numerous years of sleeping in the ground, and I have over 300 confirmed decibels. I am trained in long term orgy choreography and I'm the top screecher in the entire US cicada forces. You are nothing to me but just another wienerblock. I will wake you the frick up with vibrations the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fricking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me before I moult? Think again, fricker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of flies across the USA and your BO is being traced right now so you better prepare for the song, maggot. The song that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your sleep. You're fricking awake, kid. I can screech anywhere, anytime, and I can be heard over seven hundred yards, and that's just with my bare ass. Not only am I extensively trained in solo singing, but I have access to the entire choir of the United States Cicada Corps and I will use it to its full extent to eliminate all silence off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fricking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will scream my horny song all over you and you will drowse in it. You're fricking tired, kiddo.
i wish we talked more about cool hikes in the southeast
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Anons do not get a puppy this year. I had a black lab puppy when ci dad came out really heavy. She ate dozens of them Everytime we went outside. The vet said it’s ok as long as they keep pooping and they don’t block them up but we couldn’t do any training just eating cicadas non stop. She liked them better than her treats.
You're just trying to get more of those delicious cicadas for yourself aren't you?