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Well we hear them all the time in the Midwest during late summer. You know its late summer when you hear their cry. It can be deafening in some areas.
Can't eat us all comes to mind
damn! imagine your existence is just a feast for the rest of the animal kingdom.
Hey BBC Earth channel, upload more videos of Tigers, Elephants, Lions, and Crocodiles, those are good and I like them.
Wait ooh does it mean it takes them 17 years to hatch the eggs?
17 years cycle. wow
20 years underground, not a peep
As Peter Gregory pointed out, Sesame Seeds
Had this in my neighborhood growing up, and when my friends and I went on a bike ride, all you can hear is crunch because their bodies lined the roads and sidewalks
Early stage Tyranid invasion.
They emerge every year, don't lie old man😂😂😂
1:00 i think one of them opened up a little bit too early
I was in South Georgia during the 2024 brood emergence. The SCREAMS lasted for weeks, day and night , I wish I could post videos in comments for y’all to hear them.
Imagine how may got trapped under concrete and steel
Still way fewer bugs than in Windows 11
What an incredible planet we get to live on!
Pro tip, if these emerge from your yard spread fescue seed down couple days later… free aeration.
How do all the eggs get underground for the next cycle?
This is one of natures most fascinating events. I have experienced them a few times in Maryland. The don't eat but do drink water. They eventually lay their eggs in the smaller twigs (as well as any other limb) at the outside of the trees. The twigs die fall to the ground and the eggs become larva and escape to the ground and live off root juices. The tree looks like they are dying BUT this is natures way of pruning the limbs. The forest echoes with their drumming. Birds eat them and many only manage to eat the back end of the cicada body. The front can continue to fly for great distances. Then as quick as the arrive they disappear and the forests continue in the routine animal/insect noises.
St. Louis and surrounding areas had a bumper crop of 17-year cicadas in 2024. I haven't had any luck using them as fishing bait. I do wish I had saved a bunch by freezing them for the upcoming winter so the birds and critters could have had some healthy protein through the cold months. Lord knows I could have filled my freezer! Love Sir David's voice. He's funny and his voice is so relaxing!