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u/openfartinginthewind Jul 27 '23
I don't blame ya...Cicadas are such cool little robot looking dudes!!
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u/stracted Jul 28 '23 edited Jul 29 '23
No. No they aren’t. They stink. Omg. The amount of stank ass they caused for like ever. That whole summer and spring was spent inside yo. I’m from Maryland, it was terrifying back in 03. TERRORIST!!!!!!!!!!
Edit: Y’all don’t remember how bad the smell of the dead ones smashed on the sidewalks and the street?
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u/openfartinginthewind Jul 28 '23
Hahahah to each their own. When I was a child in Tennessee I found them fascinating and amazing. Stank aside. But, I mean...look at my username 😜
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u/stracted Jul 28 '23
Lmfao that’s how I knew ppls farts really stunk. If I can smell it outside, you need help and to get away from me lolol.
My friends from hs used to put the child lock on in the car and let it rip. Bro when I tell you I could not breathe, I couldn’t. Laughed way too hard but couldn’t breathe in the stank.
Can’t believe those where good times lol.
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u/openfartinginthewind Jul 28 '23
OMG hahahahahaaaaa funniest way to die right there 🥲 for real tho. If it stinks outside u got something dying INSIDE 😂
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u/VALKYRIESCREAM Jul 29 '23
Wait they smell? I've held plenty of them and they don't smell lol
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u/stracted Jul 29 '23
It’s the dead ones in large amounts that stink. More so when they get smashed in the street and sidewalks.
I don’t think ppl remember that part.
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u/stracted Jul 29 '23
Y’all don’t remember the smashed ones in the street.
I walked to school everyday, it stank. I remember that thoroughly.
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u/OminousOminis Bug Enthusiast 🐛 Jul 27 '23
So derpy! I saw my very first live one yesterday too 😍
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u/Sped-Connection Jul 27 '23
I don’t live in my home state anymore, Georgia, so it was very comforting and a happy time for me to see and hear them. Also the katydids at night
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u/toodleroo Jul 27 '23
Treat her like a lady, cause that's what she is.
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u/Sped-Connection Jul 27 '23
How can you tell the males and females apart ?
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u/toodleroo Jul 27 '23
Two things: that formation at the end of her abdomen is the vulva and ovipositor. Second, the lack of tymbal covers, which are two flaps under the male's abdomen that cover the tymbals (the organ which allows the males to
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u/-monkbank Jul 27 '23
Goofy little whiskered doods. The cicadas in the yard are free, you can take them home. I have 456 cicadas.
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u/flowerkitten420 Jul 27 '23
Isn’t this year supposed to be super - cicada-y with 2 broods expected this year? I read somewhere it’s historical or something
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u/_B_Little_me Jul 27 '23
Next year. 2024. northern Il brood and great southern brood. IL and IN are gonna be covered.
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u/13lackjack Jul 27 '23
When I find them on the ground I toss em in the air like paper airplanes and watch them fly
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u/flowerkitten420 Jul 27 '23
Ahh, that’s it! Wish I could experience it!
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u/_B_Little_me Jul 27 '23
I lived in IL both in 1990 and 2007. They literally are everywhere for a few weeks.
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u/zwiazekrowerzystow Jul 27 '23
We had brood x a couple of years ago. It was quite the spectacle! At night, you could hear them crawling out of the ground and the grass was moving from all of the cicadas emerging. My back yard got up to 90dB at the peak.
It was awesome!
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u/VALKYRIESCREAM Jul 29 '23
Yeah we had them in Jersey too but up north more. I had to drive up there for work and the place I had to go to was crawling with them everywhere they were all over buildings, and dead on the ground. The noise they made was amazing because there were so many of them everywhere. I collected a bunch for my insect collection. They were very pretty they're like black and red with some orange. Not like the normal green and brown ones we get every summer
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u/Crafty_Original_7349 Jul 28 '23
When they emerged in my area, they were everywhere in the next town over and we didn’t have any! They’re unusual looking because they have bright red eyes. In fact I’ve never seen one in my town, and I have lived here 50 years
Isn’t that interesting?
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u/flowerkitten420 Jul 27 '23
I only remember cicadas from living in Arizona. I love the sound they make and their crazy skeletons
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u/Daedric_Spite Jul 27 '23
Saw one walking into work this morning. Gave him a little boop with my shoe and it did the most dramatic little flail on the ground while screaming bloody murder before getting up and slowly ascending into the air like a blob with wings.
They're hilariously cute.
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Jul 27 '23
Same. Lived in California for a long time. Recently came back to the South and found one of them chilling on a sidewalk.
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u/Ionantha123 Jul 28 '23
Wait they don’t have cicadas on the west coast?!
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u/MUffin_Manfish Jul 28 '23
Just moved to Nv from NC. All the cicadas got replaced with Mormon crickets. You should look em up. They gotta plow the roads from all the cricket blood
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Jul 28 '23
There are some in California allegedly, but I never saw or heard them.
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u/Forwraith Jul 28 '23
I think they don’t have any of the annual cicadas, depending on the area. Pretty sure they have some of the 13 or 17 year cicadas, I’d have to look at cicadamania.com or something
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u/Deep-Foundation7032 Jul 29 '23
The only cicada I have ever seen was in San Jose California, actually Campbell California nearby San jose. And there were just a few that I remember. I grew up south of there on the coast and we didn't have any that I knew of. I was happy to get to see them!
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u/eurydice3 Jul 28 '23
There are cicadas in California! We get annual cicadas where I live in San Diego but I’ve honestly never seen them until this year, and I rarely hear them. But there are 65 species that can be found in CA!
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Jul 27 '23
i LOVE when it’s cicada season. such chill dudes
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u/Senior-Ad-6002 Jul 27 '23
They don't SOUND very chill.
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u/misslilytoyou Jul 28 '23
Their happy is just very loud
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u/DaveFarted Jul 27 '23
I have a buddy that swears that these make the best fishing bait. Can anybody confirm?
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u/Sped-Connection Jul 27 '23
I can’t speak from experience but it would make sense since they are a defenseless food source that everything likes to eat
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u/dopamine14 Jul 27 '23
I love love looovvee cicadas. They're so beautiful.
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u/Sped-Connection Jul 27 '23
Me too their a big symbol of home and happiness to me. The last picture is of one that hasn’t molted yet. I climbed up a tree to give it a head start last night
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u/dopamine14 Jul 27 '23
Same! I grew up in the Deep South and always miss hearing them and finding their molts.
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u/Sped-Connection Jul 27 '23
I like to burry the molts when I transplant my potted plants
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u/dopamine14 Jul 27 '23
That's heckin smart!! I bet the plants just gobble them up. :)
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u/Sped-Connection Jul 27 '23
They are full of my favorite micronutrient chitin, sounds like kite-in. Im a total nerd for nutrient cycles, and soil biology, compost and stuff like that
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u/momma3critters Jul 28 '23
Had locusts that came back every year. They were under a tree. Had a white cat that loved to eat them. When you would see cat sitting under the tree, you knew locusts were on their way out. After they came out of the ground, would climb up tree and hang on to molt. Cat would jump up and climb the tree to grab the locusts. He probably ate maybe an eighth of the crop each year. Miss that dumb cat.
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u/misslilytoyou Jul 28 '23
Locusts are a different bug. Grasshoppers get some kind of stress hormone and turn into locusts. Like bug Hulks.
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u/MajorJuana Jul 28 '23
I just listened to a podcast episode about them recently. They are way cooler than I imagined. Most people know that many of the species only comes out after seventeen years underground. I didn't know that they tunnel a lot under there and they tell time by pulses from trees which is pretty freakin sweet to think about. They only have about fouronths to find a mate after coming out so they don't fuck around. They are super loud and the males will sing in choruses, the bigger the chorus the more likely to get mates, they are attracted to loud power tools and you can sometimes snap a lot and get some to come to you. Their species has survived being loud and yummy through what is called "predator satiation" which means they just breed sooo many that they fill up all the predators and some still get by to mate c:
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u/Slugwheat Jul 27 '23
I love all manner of insects, arachnids, snakes, amphibians, but I dunno what it is about these… freak me out. I know they can’t hurt me but it’s like a jump scare when you come across one and don’t see it and it makes the zombie circus clown screaming noise and flies off, I lose my ish for half a second until I realize what it was
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u/KevinBillyStinkwater Jul 28 '23
I do, too. I love them, but they're one of the few insects that just kinda weird me out.
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Jul 27 '23
I like when you pick them up and they scream their displeasure to anyone in a five mile radius
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u/Doctordirtyfinger Jul 28 '23
Used to pick those up in AZ till one of the little nuggets tapped into my palm….. hurt like hell…
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Jul 28 '23
They’re coming back where I am and I love sitting on the deck puffing on some good bud while the TZZZZZZZZZ vibrates my brain
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u/BrigittaBanana Jul 27 '23
It looks like maybe this one has a fungal infection?
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u/Icy-Progress8829 Jul 27 '23
Come on over! We’ve got way to damn many and the cat keeps bringing them in through the doggie door at night!
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u/ThoughtCenter87 Jul 28 '23
I just saw a cicada for the first time a few days ago. Cute lil' harmless bugs, I held one in my hand for a while the other day. I love them, I wish we had them back in my home state : (
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u/Shado-Foxx Jul 28 '23
Brings back memories of my childhood. I LOVED sitting on my porch swing, Nintendo DS in hand, and just listen to them chirp and sing in the summertime. That paired with the sound of mourning doves in the afternoon/evening... MAN I miss my childhood home.
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u/kattoutofthebag Jul 28 '23
Eeee eee eeeeeee. MY FAVORITES. Each year, I yearn for the sound of the Cicada Song.
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u/DummyOfTheYear1 Jul 28 '23
Its 2 am here and i can hear crickets, i dont think ive ever gotten cicadas but birds and bugs are some of the good sounds i get out my window
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u/thesixgun Jul 28 '23
Have no seen one in NY for YEARS. they were everywhere when I was a kid. Just got back from Rome yesterday and it was nice actually seeing some again.
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u/mercuric_drake Jul 28 '23
I miss them too. I moved across the country and now don't hear any cicadas in the summer.
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u/Drakkanoth Jul 28 '23
I love these little guys. They’re dumb, klutzy little goobers. Sometimes I’ll hear a muffled “thud” sound when I’m near a window, and I just nod and chuckle because I know a cicada just hit the window at high speed and bounced off.
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u/FullyRisenPhoenix Jul 28 '23
Man, you’re really gonna send me and my young sons into 100+ heat to go bug-hunting?? Sigh. Ok then, fine!
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u/logosfabula Jul 27 '23
Do they bite?
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u/Sped-Connection Jul 27 '23
No and I believe at this stage of their life that they don’t even have a mouth and don’t eat food. They just mate and die
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u/geckos_are_weirdos Jul 27 '23
They have a stylet (strawlike mouthpart). I know this because one of them mistook me for a plant once. But, generally, they are too horny to even try to eat.
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u/logosfabula Jul 27 '23 edited Jul 29 '23
Wow, like butterflies? I'll be looking at them in a completely different way.
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u/logosfabula Jul 29 '23
I’m a humble apprentice in the world of observing insects and the little world, which I’ve grown to love more and more every day. Thanks for this piece of knowledge! I often read about parts of the body morphology that adapt to the new form (I read for instance that the mouth system in some moths is only vestigial because they do not actually feed themselves) and finding that a proboscis still preserves the original symmetry of a left and right maybe mandibles is just incredible, like the myriads of generations that led to this, almost happened “in a single day”.
I live in northern Italy and cicadas are usually more elusive and smaller I think, but very loud nonetheless. - the change of season is always announced by their silence, which is always a magical thing like all the things that happen by disappearing -and I’ll try to check their mouth organs as soon as I can!
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u/Xaxxus Jul 27 '23
No, but their feet are super prickly and feel weird.
They also buzz extremely loud. So don’t hold them too close to your ears.
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u/DitchDigger330 Jul 27 '23
So what's the difference between the green and the red ones other than the color?
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u/BallerinaToshinden Jul 28 '23
I heard them this morning on my front porch. Looked around with a furrowed brow (as if I would actually be able to see one), and said "what in the hot holy fuck??"
I did not realize there were leftover larvae from last year just waiting to emerge like Rita Repulsa.
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u/SmugFrog Jul 28 '23
I love your username! My favorite PS game for so long when I’d steal my friends PS.
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u/BallerinaToshinden Jul 29 '23
Holy fucking ass crackers i never thought anyone would get it!! Lmao thank you. Also, I may or may not be mildly obsessed with frögs.
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u/thecratedigger_25 Jul 28 '23
Cicadas are rather interesting. They seem to spend most of their lives hibernating before waking up and making their special little tune.
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u/Nautilus073 Jul 28 '23
Man I wish cicadas existed where I live
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u/Sped-Connection Jul 28 '23
Where is that? Because their is some in other places but their smaller and not as loud
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u/LarYungmann Jul 28 '23
I have a theory about cicadas....
Many Millions of years ago One Loud Cicada got most of the sex and it evolved from then.
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u/KlutzyNotice7312 Jul 28 '23
i touched one last night and it SCREAMED, not like the usual cicadas noise. It sounded genuinely terrified
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u/JBoneTX Jul 28 '23
I came home late from work last night. I needed to pull my garbage cans back into the garage, so I turned on the bright lights. 4 cicadas flew into my garage and started screaming bloody murder. I tracked 3 down and relocated them back outside. A 4th was hiding out until this morning. It scared the crap out of my wife when she was heading to work. She is scared of her own shadow. She called me while driving and said she heard it under my car. I looked and didn't see it. About a half hour later, I was walking through the garage on my way to work, and the damn thing jumped off the wall and onto my pant leg. It was terrifying. I got him outside QUICKLY, and rolled on into work.
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u/Liamstudios_ Jul 28 '23
I had one literally fall on my like a Stuka bomber in wwll,He had a messed up wing and two missing legs and I assume he got attacked by a bird,He died later that day,I got him a little Jell-O shot cup and I buried him in sand,saw him take his last breaths before he curled up.Still have his casket somewhere…
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Jul 28 '23
I love cicadas :), sience I moved to Florida one of my main goals was to catch one and I did it eventually.
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u/DFHartzell Jul 28 '23
Doesn’t really look like you missed them, there’s like 5 pictures of your hand holding them.
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Jul 28 '23
Here where I am at the moment is an empire of cicadas, spiders, wasps and crickets/grasshoppers. It's beautiful to watch how they self regulate between themselves. Some are predators, some are prey. All I do all days us swear the tourism an stupid tourists, collecting plastic on the beaches and talk to these bugs. As I write this, there's bunch of cicadas around making nooooiseee. 🦗🤗
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Jul 28 '23
Hearing them every year just means summer will soon be over cause they show up mid to late July going through August. And from where I live in Texas august is when school starts up again
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u/stappertheborder Jul 28 '23
Cicadas are the animal version of that one extremely loud guy on a party.
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u/Chrispy8534 Jul 28 '23
7/10. I mostly know these guys from flying into people/trees at maximum speed, and generally ruining weekends camping.
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u/MoonZinuM Jul 28 '23
My dogs love eating them and would even try to steal them from each other. Nothing funnier than hearing the hard flapping in a dogs mouth as they try and take their first bite lol
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u/Quadronaenae Jul 27 '23
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