Trillions of Cicadas are about to emerge

Dammit, Moses, let it go!

I am so excited to watch flyover America bitch about this incessantly.

I love the sound of cicadas.

I'm in the south, we always seem to have them.

Yeah, I'm in Houston and they are always here in the summer. Love sitting outside and listening to them at dusk. Fucking flying cockroaches pretty much ruin after dark outside.

Good meat for barbecue?

R6 is the Darfur Orphan or Asian.

We don't have them in California, but I worked in both Massachusetts and Georgia when they had them, and it's a comforting sound. So nice to see fireflies too, although they're not as numerous as they were in my youth in Chicago.

Sounds like the apocalypse is upon us leading up until November.

More south-of-the-border immigrations.

Looking at the map in OP’s link, most of the affected states are politically red. I therefore predict we’ll hear nothing from MTG about how it’s God’s will because of Biden and the Dems.

We had a "cicada apocalypse" when I lived in Cincinnati once in the '80s. They were EVERYWHERE. They landed on you and I remember people brushing them off of other people when they entered a store or restaurant. It was awful!

click bait. they say this every year.

During an eclipse too

The right wing tinhatters will go nuts

I noticed cicada shells on my patio this afternoon -- the emergence has BEGUN!

"Experts say that Brood XIX, which operates on a 13-year cycle, and Brood XIII, which arises every 17 years, are set to appear simultaneously—a coincidence that was last recorded occurring in 1803 and is not expected to occur again until 2076."

Oh, dear.

Miss Shuster says a swarm is headed this way.

I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.

Cicadas >>>> flyover America

Rats = NYC

Guess again, r8. After 20 years in the Midwest, that's what I used to think. I don't recall cicada noise from when I was growing up in N. California. When I moved back, I was surprised to hear those noises on my walks in some areas with heavier tree canopy. Not nearly as loud, but distinctive.

[QUOTE]There are 65 species of cicada in California but none of them are periodical, so California won’t be swarmed.

[QUOTE]Western US cicadas are annual, meaning they emerge in the late spring or early summer, continuing to buzz throughout the summer.

[QUOTE]According to a UC Berkeley publication titled The Cicadas of California, only five of the 65 species in California are found in Sacramento County. One of these species, Okanagana arboraria, is endemic to the Sacramento valley and found in deciduous woodlands along the Sacramento River corridor, according to bugguide.net.

[QUOTE]California generally lacks the widespread, lush, deciduous forests found east of the Rocky Mountains, where cicadas prefer to live. So, although California is far from cicada-free, they aren’t as prevalent as other parts of the country.

They do not eat anything and they do not bite humans, they just live briefly to fuck and die.

I really don't want to see this mess

Get a load of r21 - DL's very own Mrs. Bundy.

Down South there is a canard that cicadas attract venomous copperhead snakes.

We don't have them in the northeast, do they bite?

What I mostly recall about them from when I was a kid growing up in a mid-Atlantic state is the sound of crunching when walking on sidewalks covered with exoskeletons shed by the bugs. Those shells were ugly, and the bugs that came out of them were ugly. Despite having lived up and down the east coast for decades after that, I’ve thankfully never experienced anything like that again.

This seems very cool. I wish we got them where I live.

I hate their noise. The males scream I AM HORNY.

[quote]they just live briefly to fuck and die.

Honestly, don't we all?

[quote]We don't have them in the northeast, do they bite?

Unlike NYC rats, they don't bite.

Can Cicadas Bite?

R31 is telling us pestilence rats outside of NYC don't exist?

This isn't a NYC thread. This is about cicadas and one of the most disturbing words in the English language... BROOD

Don't get in the way of a horny male who only has 2 weeks to procreate.

you rang?

God’s revenge for not helping immigrants.

I’d take listening to cicadas all day every day over lawn mowers, leaf blowers and power washers.

My dog is eating multitudes of them from the yard.

Do they taste like shrimp 🍤?

Well, the shells might choke him.

[Quote] Good meat for barbecue?

Actually yes. I mean, I wouldn’t eat them, because they’re bugs, but they’re actually supposed to be tasty and good for you.

They apparently taste like shrimp with a hint of nuttiness. The best way to eat them is to find a spot where they’re coming up and moulting, and when they’ve shed but are still soft and a whitish color, you pop them in a brown bag and put them in your freezer. Then you cook them just like you’d cook shrimp and add them to the same dishes.

But you should not eat them if you’re allergic to shellfish.