Sometimes these insects drown out the sound of the birds I like to listen to, and then some asshole will drive by with his loudwagon popping and i instantly appreciate the cicadas more.
4:45 - I think those are Lasius aphidicola running up and down the tree. 5:19 - Crematogaster sp darts into frame for a second. (The red beads on the cicada are ocelli, very simple light sensing organs that help insects to fly. Some ants have them too.) 5:40 - Crematogater sp. again (they are mad about something because they are flagging their gasters) 10:38 - A small black possible ant, but it might not even be an ant, could be Monomorium minimum... but it's too blurry to say. I find it very creepy when I can't hear any insects when I'm outside on a summer day. It's scary. I was in a suburb a week ago and there was NOTHING no ants, no bees... it was horrible.
agreed, it's been a scary spring/summer up here in the PNW with a distinct lack of insect songs. it's the silence of absence, the sound of something very, very wrong. our apartment is next to a tiny creek, too, though we are firmly in the suburbs of one of the major cities up here- we should hear more. heard a couple crickets the other night. not before, not since. i felt like crying, hearing them.
So glad someone else loves cicada. Their voice is wonderful. I’m 71 yrs and my girls think I’m nuts. They bought me a cicada tee shirt that I wear with pride. They took me for a walk where the red eyed cicada walk. My girls hate them, but they must love me to find a place for me to enjoy the cicadas.
My brother and his wife once lived and worked in the coastal bush of Zululand. They had a small dog suffering from Jack Russell Disease (a psychiatric condition, often fatal) by name of Jodie (but I always called her Oddly). In cicada season she sometimes liked to go into the bush and get herself a cicada. Then she would bring it home into the house, and walk around and around with it, feeling the lovely zizzing feeling in her teeth. Round and round the house, zizzing, zizzing, zizzing. Bloody more zizzing, until someone tried to have a go at rescuing it, and she would bite it dead. If she can't have it, you can't have it. Just one dog in all that bush wouldn't have impacted their population, but it was always a bad feeling when the sound got too much and the rescue attempt failed. Later they had another dog with the same disease called James, and he wasn't interested in cicadas. He was so interested in monkeys he could climb trees after them (but not climb down afterwards). Mainly, he was interested in Mozambique Spitting Cobras. At least he didn't bring them into the house, but he was always having to have his eyes washed out. He was the World Champion Cobra Hunter, and had an eventual lifetime score of 15-2. First time he got bitten, himself, they managed to save him, but the next time they didn't keep a good enough eye on him when he got home, so on the day he came home from the vets he escaped from the house, went hunting in the wetlands, messed himself up, relapsed, and died. His parents were very successful racing Jack Russells and somehow he learned how to train for races as a little puppy, just watching Mom and Dad. So he liked to suddenly jump up for no apparent reason, dash off at full sprint dead straight for about 100m, hit the brakes suddenly, bark loudly three times at the sky, and then trot back to be sort-of calm again. But this is getting way too far away from being a cicada story, now. Although a friend of mine had a little dog with Jack Russell Disease called Rochester, who would suddenly jump up, run out the back door, jump up to grab a branch of a plant he liked to attack, and then dangle there, occasionally wriggling. Then he'd stop, come back in, and carry on as if nothing had happened. So would you like to hear about that? No? OK. Sorry. Shouldn't have mentioned it.
I used to get serious anxiety from being overwhelmed by their song. Then one hot summers day i was hiking on 3g of caps when i was overwhelmed again. Only this time it was the overwhelming realization they are singing a song older than my species. Now when I hear that song I only feel humbled ❤
Every living thing deserves to exist. Just yesterday I had to rescue a scorpion from the front door of our store. Everyone was like "kill it!", "stomp it!", and I just rolled my eyes, got a vase and scooped it up then released it back into the desert behind the concrete wall/fence around the sorting yard. Poor thing was more afraid of us than we of it!
Tbh that is a great Tattoo idea. I was looking for something that is valuable to me and I think I might try to find or make art that expresses "Every living being deserves to exist"
They scream for ambulances an po po on the wing ! They pray helter skelter for reliefs from da heats they scream for peshtigo herishimo an Chicago - they scream for ice creams to chill out the camp fires of orcs an fools et al . Ya know? They scream for all else fails - reliefs wize .Hollar for a dollar -stamp out ignorance - pound sand...galore
This morning here in Virginia I heard the Lyric Cicada, Linne's, Cicada, Swamp Cicada, and Robinson's Cicada. They tend to be vocalizing during the day here. The Katydids dominate the night sound right now.
Because of the broods, I now know what a pile of rotting exoskeletons smells like. I wonder how much of a part the cicadas played in the massive passenger pigeon populations.
Kentucky we a had brood x a few year ago. I collected a few samples and in fact encased a few dead specimens in epoxy resin for future generations. I love them. It's an amazing natural phenomenon, deafening.
Quesada gigas is one of the cicadas I definitely want to see if I find myself down in Texas, I love the song it makes. The white stuff is called pruinose. You should dip into cicadas, most of the species in eastern North America can be readily ID'd by their songs. And they're not too difficult to key out visually.
thank you for all the work you do, your presentation, the delivery is one off, I hope all these videos end up logged at the library of congress and preserved as a the records they are. I can’t recall the requirements but I have no doubt this is way past qualifying and certainly worth preserving.
Cicada are probably my 2nd fav bug behind fireflies. They're big, dumb, and don't bite. They leave cool lil shells you can scare your nieces and nephews with. And boy howdy do they sing us a tune.
Dude I’m right there with you, cicadas were the first insect an adult showed me how to handle and that they were harmless when I was about 3 years old, my grandfather caught one and explained that that was what was making all the noise that summer, I was scared be he said it won’t do anything to just hold your arm still and he stuck it on my arm, and it just crawled up, 30 something years later I did the same thing with my daughter when she was about 2-3 and she immediately shoved it in her mouth LMAO 😂 here in Georgia we just got to see the emergence of some broods of the 13 year cicadas and I think there were some pockets of the 17 year ones, I didn’t even compare to the emergence here in middle Georgia in 2011 it was swarms
Wouldn't be Summer without 'em!! Even though I'm so used to them that I don't really notice them, I do believe I would miss them if they were gone... Here in Central Texas they're Summer song is STRONG, no worries here! (Even WITH the low-bellied developer in high gear, the Cicadas are doing fine in my old growth Oak neighborhood.) Funny, you say they need the Mesquite root to chomp on, however, there aren't many Mesquite left over here where I am in semi-suburbia Hill Country. (Where houses were built UNDERNEATH the lovely shade of the Live Oak instead of simply razing the entire landscape as they do now.) Speaking of the trees - I suppose the Cicadas also enjoy a meal of Live Oak, and/or Juniper "Cedar" trees since that's mostly what we have? At any rate, the Cicada is still VERY prolific over here, whatever the larvae are eating. So much so, that we can't talk on the phone outside when they're singing! While their noise doesn't bother us, people on the other end of the phone can't hear what we're saying! Personally, I LIKE hearing them. Especially when they're just singing along at an even pace, all at the same decibel level, then suddenly - ALL AT ONCE, they ALL ramp up the decibals at least 4 times louder! It's AMAZING! Just for fun, we should take a decible reading to find out just how loud they really do get!
I live in Georgia, these things are so loud in my backyard every summer. Maybe a little louder this summer. They leave their shells everywhere. The ones in my backyard have more of a chatter than a droning noise. People on Reddit say they eat them.
I especially appreciate their camouflage. I think the white stuff helps with camo when perched on those specific trees. I love them too although it's a different species here. I take to sleeping in my garden during their season.
I had no idea they ate huizache and mesquite roots, I’ve been caring for some that sprouted on a park since they’re usually pruned along the grass and now I’m really glad I did. They have HUGE populations near Monterrey on the mountains, they’re deafening all summer long.
Legit hommie , thanks for not being a sell out…these days coming across someone not saying “and today’s show was sponsored by” is appreciated! And the fact you admitted to getting cicada pee on your finger 👌 triple og status 🤜🤛
I love the sound of cicadas. They totally cancel out the ringing from the tinnitus i have. I sleep more soundly while camping than i ever do at home due to this effect.
I feel like Cicadas sound is like Cilantro. Some people love it, some people hate it but no in between. I find it very relaxing, probably because here in Vegas we grew up with them on the regular. It’s literally the sound of summer here and just reminds me of being out of school and chilling in the shade after running around all day.
Associate these with high summer and, growing up in the southern hemisphere, with Christmas - indeed, we called them Christmas beetles as kids. They made a far more pleasant sound than the species featured here
Cicadas remind me of warm, lazy, summer afternoons of childhood. However, “au contraire mon fraire” you can hear cicadas (Katy-did’s, crickets & fireflies too!) in any NYC neighborhood which has trees, yards & parks… yes, even in Manhattan! There’s supposed to be a huge cicada boon this year although I haven’t heard more than usual.
I suspect fire ants are limited by a Cordyceps fungus that came with them from Brazil (I think) but unlike the ants it can't take any freezing. They exist in Miami but they aren't the horror show there that they are in Dallas. I asked researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer research center what they thought about trying to find a fire-ant specific cold-tolerant Cordyceps fungus like the Tibetan Yarsagumba fungus is but the researchers had a major freakout at the word "fungus."
Listening to quite a few of the local dog day cicadas here in Maine right now through my window. There's about 4 or 5 of them in range of me right now living in the scrubby broken forested zones of the west side of the state. I love their little ninja masks, always been my favorite insect aesthetic of all the native species. Giant water bugs close second, they got the cool mask too.
From what I’ve ready, the white dustiness that cicadas develop is dissolved solids depositing on their body, as some cicadas have evolved a form of sweating.
Grew up in the 70s in southeastern WI and the cicadas were the sound of summer in the suburbs. Must have been a different species as I seem to recall them singing during the hot summer days, making those scorching humid afternoons even more surreal. The fireflies came out at night.
As a transplant to the Central Valley California, I miss the cicadas summer circadas from Virginia. There's nothing here most of the time, no crickets, rare bees and butterflies. Too, too much pesticide and herbicide. We're lucky to see a dragonfly or two. Thank you for bringing this nature to us! 💜🌎🪲
One of the only insects that rivals the sound of a cicada is a type of hawk moth that vibrates it's genitals against the inside of it's exoskeleton. The sound attracts mates but it also apparently jams the sonar of bats that would otherwise prey on them.
A few years ago, I was sitting on the porch listening to the cicadas. Then I realized it was December. Then I realized I have tinnitus when its too quiet around me. Then I realized my tinnitus sounds like cicadas. So I'm cool with that. Or I turn on some tunes. Good Luck to Us All Peace
No the worst sound comes from a cyclist yelling at you because your destroying their leisurely time while your trying to do your job. These sound beautiful!
Wow, the Giants are truly enormous. We don't have periodic cicadas where I live (Southern New England,) so there's generally only a few calling from trees, for a few short weeks in summer, and rarely call at night. I was delighted by the periodic cicadas mobbing the trees in Kansas, when I visited my daughter. The afternoon droning of the Dog-day cicada is the quintessential sound of high summer! Btw, I'm married to a loud Italian, so also have an appreciation for them!
Nature is the Original Artist!! Love these guys,,, ~ but I don't get to hear them now I'm in the UK.😅 Thank you so Much for reminding me of this amazing sound! 😅❤ Namasté 🙏🕊️💞🌟 Andréa and Critters. ...XxX...
I love you man. This is how I feel about the world too. You’ve inspired me to illegally plant because I’ve watched drought and run off destroy the nature in Missouri, so I buy native seeds and throw them every day and the field by my place is full of nature now. From Insects to birds, plants have made it such an impact
We have them here in Montreal. Cute but loud little buggers. I feel sorry for the ones I see with white -mold- fungus on them but thats nature. Please dont kill them, just snap a pic if you can and post it so any interested researches can track it. (edit: corrections derp)
Fun fact. In the upper Northern Hemisphere. They like to stick themselves to the sap of Fir trees in order to molt. I have always wanted to take the exoskeletons. Glue them to platforms and use them as a Warhammer 40K faction. Tyrranid Noise Marines. =D
I got to hear the double brood of 13 and 17 year cicadas earlier this year. First time I've ever heard them. It was amazing. Wonderful sound and all the other critters were feasting. They look so cool too.
Megatibicen grossus/auletes is the largest cicada in North America according to cicada researcher Kathy Hill. Quesada gigas would be the second largest in North America, but the #1 largest in Central and South America. Excellent video!!
In Auckland New Zealand a quarry had to go into temporary shutdown because the combined sound level of the cicadas and quarry machinery went over the allowable limit. Some say it was a cicada that laid a complaint about the noise
I fucking love cicadas too! They're big, they sing too loud, they're just trying to find love-- highly relatable. Also, goddamn it, your whole message in general is such a balm to my soul. I feel less crazy for feeling robbed of connection to nature by shitty development and landscaping. Getting to know my local native plants has done so much for my mental state.
Love this! In Dayton, Ohio area we have three common cicada species, and my favorite is Neotibicen tibicen tibicen. People call it "swamp cicada" but it is better called "morning cicada" because most all the time it sings in the morning, sometimes before the sun comes up if it is going to be a really hot and humid day. I like to call it "saltshaker" because it sounds rattly like a big loud saltshaker, revving up like an engine. It is the sound of summer mornings for me. Edit: Also the red "beads" are occeli, simple eyes that only see light and dark. And the white is probably wax yes.
Idk if I could live somewhere without cicadas. Spent a good chunk of my youth climbing a huge Mulberry tree in my backyard, trying to see who could find the most shed exoskeletons. Simpler times ❤
I just bought a hamatacactus setispinus from Walmart this spring. They had labeled it Hamatocactus hamatocanthus, but the red spot gave it away. It took it about two months to open all the buds on it. You're right, more people should grow it.
We had a mass cicada hatch in GA 2-3 years ago. The sound was deafening, but the weird thing was all birds disappeared for that 10+/- days it was happening. I like in a rural area and keep feeders out year round. I also killed my lawn as soon as i moved in 4 years ago. peace
Back in the 50s around Laredo, school kids would catch cicadas and tie a thread about a foot or so long around their thorax and then hold the loose end of the thread while the cicada buzzed around in a small circle. The only instance I know of where an insect was used as a toy.
the adoptive benefit of whatever makes those white marks ( 9:00 min mark) is how amazingly they work in the camouflage scheme to match the horizontal white markings on the tree trunk. Hit me up when you are ready to come to the Piney Woods of South Jerz..
The "white lipid" you're asking about at 8:54 is seen in some hemipteran true bugs. When cicadas and other plant-sucking bugs gather en masse, they can "pee" a lot, which contain higher amounts of glucose and other sugars, making for a sticky solution. The waxy substance can help to prevent the cicada's appendages from sticking together from this "pee" and other substances coating their bodies.
Never saw it, but there was one in Western Belize, along the Mopan River, that was so loud, you'd be just getting your fingers in your ears, and they'd stop, and of course that would go on, over and over for hours, at night.
When we were young, they told us they would stick them in the kids mouths to help them talk earlier. Something about the vibrations stimulating the vocal cords. I don't remember seeing it myself. But it's what I remember being told.
I miss the cicadas. I grew up in south Texas and love the sound of them. Those and all the birds in Texas really make you feel like part of the land. Plus it's somewhat of a unique experience bc not everyone one has them. Up here in Colorado we barely get them but maybe once in a blue moon.
"You got the one that sounds like an electrical short" lmfao
These things definitely beat the sound of a nearby interstate.
Sometimes these insects drown out the sound of the birds I like to listen to, and then some asshole will drive by with his loudwagon popping and i instantly appreciate the cicadas more.
Word
A thousand percent 😭😭😭
When the cicada brood came it blocked out all the aftermarket exhausts, it was wonderful.
Can finally get some fucking sleep around here.
My kid never lost her fascination with bugs and critters. She's 40 now and still happy when I bring her a cool shell, wing or feather. Enjoy her Joey.
These are my favorite insect. The sound reminds me of childhood. I'm getting older now and love hearing them in the summer.
I love the sound of cicadas! But, then again, I suffer from tinnitus!
@@ginavaleriano9894 Metoo, just the tinnitus part.
Sound of summer. Love these guys.
4:45 - I think those are Lasius aphidicola running up and down the tree.
5:19 - Crematogaster sp darts into frame for a second. (The red beads on the cicada are ocelli, very simple light sensing organs that help insects to fly. Some ants have them too.)
5:40 - Crematogater sp. again (they are mad about something because they are flagging their gasters)
10:38 - A small black possible ant, but it might not even be an ant, could be Monomorium minimum... but it's too blurry to say.
I find it very creepy when I can't hear any insects when I'm outside on a summer day. It's scary. I was in a suburb a week ago and there was NOTHING no ants, no bees... it was horrible.
Gotta love your handle!
agreed, it's been a scary spring/summer up here in the PNW with a distinct lack of insect songs. it's the silence of absence, the sound of something very, very wrong. our apartment is next to a tiny creek, too, though we are firmly in the suburbs of one of the major cities up here- we should hear more. heard a couple crickets the other night. not before, not since. i felt like crying, hearing them.
So glad someone else loves cicada. Their voice is wonderful. I’m 71 yrs and my girls think I’m nuts. They bought me a cicada tee shirt that I wear with pride. They took me for a walk where the red eyed cicada walk. My girls hate them, but they must love me to find a place for me to enjoy the cicadas.
My brother and his wife once lived and worked in the coastal bush of Zululand. They had a small dog suffering from Jack Russell Disease (a psychiatric condition, often fatal) by name of Jodie (but I always called her Oddly). In cicada season she sometimes liked to go into the bush and get herself a cicada. Then she would bring it home into the house, and walk around and around with it, feeling the lovely zizzing feeling in her teeth. Round and round the house, zizzing, zizzing, zizzing. Bloody more zizzing, until someone tried to have a go at rescuing it, and she would bite it dead. If she can't have it, you can't have it. Just one dog in all that bush wouldn't have impacted their population, but it was always a bad feeling when the sound got too much and the rescue attempt failed.
Later they had another dog with the same disease called James, and he wasn't interested in cicadas. He was so interested in monkeys he could climb trees after them (but not climb down afterwards). Mainly, he was interested in Mozambique Spitting Cobras. At least he didn't bring them into the house, but he was always having to have his eyes washed out. He was the World Champion Cobra Hunter, and had an eventual lifetime score of 15-2. First time he got bitten, himself, they managed to save him, but the next time they didn't keep a good enough eye on him when he got home, so on the day he came home from the vets he escaped from the house, went hunting in the wetlands, messed himself up, relapsed, and died.
His parents were very successful racing Jack Russells and somehow he learned how to train for races as a little puppy, just watching Mom and Dad. So he liked to suddenly jump up for no apparent reason, dash off at full sprint dead straight for about 100m, hit the brakes suddenly, bark loudly three times at the sky, and then trot back to be sort-of calm again.
But this is getting way too far away from being a cicada story, now.
Although a friend of mine had a little dog with Jack Russell Disease called Rochester, who would suddenly jump up, run out the back door, jump up to grab a branch of a plant he liked to attack, and then dangle there, occasionally wriggling. Then he'd stop, come back in, and carry on as if nothing had happened. So would you like to hear about that? No? OK. Sorry. Shouldn't have mentioned it.
All together, they sound like an old modem trying to establish a connection.
*Those old-azz, dial-up modems;* _“WEEE-ahhh…WEEE-ahhh…WEEE-ahhh…Wooooooo…Woooooooooooo…_
you’ve got mail…!” 😂
My Man.
I used to get serious anxiety from being overwhelmed by their song. Then one hot summers day i was hiking on 3g of caps when i was overwhelmed again.
Only this time it was the overwhelming realization they are singing a song older than my species. Now when I hear that song I only feel humbled ❤
Damn that's a really cool way to put it, I love that
Beautiful observation ❤😊
What you talkin' about Winstead? They are singing a song older than the synapsids that were the ancestors of mammals
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Thank you for sharing this. I laughed and said wow at the same realization. You’re a good human.
Every living thing deserves to exist. Just yesterday I had to rescue a scorpion from the front door of our store. Everyone was like "kill it!", "stomp it!", and I just rolled my eyes, got a vase and scooped it up then released it back into the desert behind the concrete wall/fence around the sorting yard. Poor thing was more afraid of us than we of it!
I can't believe people... Fu*k it makes me so angry and sad.
Tbh that is a great Tattoo idea. I was looking for something that is valuable to me and I think I might try to find or make art that expresses "Every living being deserves to exist"
I remember my daughter asking when she was 5, "Daddy. Why are the trees screaming?".
"Because of humanity ,dear ,because of humanity."
They scream for ambulances an po po on the wing ! They pray helter skelter for reliefs from da heats they scream for peshtigo herishimo an Chicago - they scream for ice creams to chill out the camp fires of orcs an fools et al . Ya know? They scream for all else fails - reliefs wize .Hollar for a dollar -stamp out ignorance - pound sand...galore
What did you tell her?
The sound beats hell out of the noise of city streets at night.
to my dog theyre one of the greatest delicacies nature has to offer. he goes crazy for the crunch
This morning here in Virginia I heard the Lyric Cicada, Linne's, Cicada, Swamp Cicada, and Robinson's Cicada. They tend to be vocalizing during the day here. The Katydids dominate the night sound right now.
Love cicadas. The sound of summer
Because of the broods, I now know what a pile of rotting exoskeletons smells like. I wonder how much of a part the cicadas played in the massive passenger pigeon populations.
Predation is believed to have led to their prime number of years between swarms.
Kentucky we a had brood x a few year ago. I collected a few samples and in fact encased a few dead specimens in epoxy resin for future generations. I love them. It's an amazing natural phenomenon, deafening.
Cicadas have always been both a welcome reminder of summer and the signal of hot as hell days as someone who grew up in the SE US.
They kind of sound like a little tiny, extremely loud, two stroke dirtbike
Quesada gigas is one of the cicadas I definitely want to see if I find myself down in Texas, I love the song it makes.
The white stuff is called pruinose. You should dip into cicadas, most of the species in eastern North America can be readily ID'd by their songs.
And they're not too difficult to key out visually.
There’s no insect more annoying than the mosquito. Cicadas are just big and noisy.
Black flies are even worse in my neck of the Canadian bush.
Mosquitoes are upping their game in coastal Texas with all the mosquito borne viruses
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Black flies winched suck
Is the ZIKA virus there yet?
Cicadas are sick. Thanks for sharing these.
The high pitched one sounds just like my tinnitus. Blocks it out perfectly.
thank you for all the work you do, your presentation, the delivery is one off, I hope all these videos end up logged at the library of congress and preserved as a the records they are. I can’t recall the requirements but I have no doubt this is way past qualifying and certainly worth preserving.
Happy to discover these beings with youse!!!
Cicada are probably my 2nd fav bug behind fireflies. They're big, dumb, and don't bite. They leave cool lil shells you can scare your nieces and nephews with. And boy howdy do they sing us a tune.
Grackle: I'm the most annoying sound.
Cicada: Hold my beer.
Grackles are loud, but they sound so unique and beautiful to me
Their eyes are a work of art.
Dude I’m right there with you, cicadas were the first insect an adult showed me how to handle and that they were harmless when I was about 3 years old, my grandfather caught one and explained that that was what was making all the noise that summer, I was scared be he said it won’t do anything to just hold your arm still and he stuck it on my arm, and it just crawled up, 30 something years later I did the same thing with my daughter when she was about 2-3 and she immediately shoved it in her mouth LMAO 😂
here in Georgia we just got to see the emergence of some broods of the 13 year cicadas and I think there were some pockets of the 17 year ones, I didn’t even compare to the emergence here in middle Georgia in 2011 it was swarms
Wouldn't be Summer without 'em!!
Even though I'm so used to them that I don't really notice them, I do believe I would miss them if they were gone...
Here in Central Texas
they're Summer song is STRONG,
no worries here!
(Even WITH the low-bellied developer in high gear, the Cicadas are doing fine in my old growth Oak neighborhood.)
Funny, you say they need the Mesquite root to chomp on, however, there aren't many Mesquite left over here where I am in semi-suburbia Hill Country.
(Where houses were built UNDERNEATH the lovely shade of the Live Oak instead of simply razing the entire landscape as they do now.)
Speaking of the trees -
I suppose the Cicadas also enjoy a meal of Live Oak, and/or Juniper "Cedar" trees since that's mostly what we have?
At any rate, the Cicada is still VERY prolific over here, whatever the larvae are eating.
So much so, that we can't talk on the phone outside when they're singing!
While their noise doesn't bother us, people on the other end of the phone can't hear what we're saying!
Personally, I LIKE hearing them.
Especially when they're just singing along at an even pace,
all at the same decibel level,
then suddenly -
ALL AT ONCE,
they ALL ramp up the decibals at least 4 times louder!
It's AMAZING!
Just for fun, we should take a decible reading to find out just how loud they really do get!
I live in Georgia, these things are so loud in my backyard every summer. Maybe a little louder this summer. They leave their shells everywhere. The ones in my backyard have more of a chatter than a droning noise.
People on Reddit say they eat them.
I especially appreciate their camouflage. I think the white stuff helps with camo when perched on those specific trees. I love them too although it's a different species here. I take to sleeping in my garden during their season.
You must have those citronella candles (or coils) going!
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When I was a child I was entranced by dancing fireflies. But one night I caught one and felt hooks and grasping claws
This sounds like the beginning of a poem
Im from England, Id love to experience this one day. Cicadas are so cool, chunky and chill little guys.
I had no idea they ate huizache and mesquite roots, I’ve been caring for some that sprouted on a park since they’re usually pruned along the grass and now I’m really glad I did. They have HUGE populations near Monterrey on the mountains, they’re deafening all summer long.
Legit hommie , thanks for not being a sell out…these days coming across someone not saying “and today’s show was sponsored by” is appreciated!
And the fact you admitted to getting cicada pee on your finger 👌 triple og status 🤜🤛
Truth! ✊
I love the sound of cicadas. They totally cancel out the ringing from the tinnitus i have. I sleep more soundly while camping than i ever do at home due to this effect.
I feel like Cicadas sound is like Cilantro. Some people love it, some people hate it but no in between. I find it very relaxing, probably because here in Vegas we grew up with them on the regular. It’s literally the sound of summer here and just reminds me of being out of school and chilling in the shade after running around all day.
They are really beautiful by the way. Literally the cannabis flower of the insect kingdom. So much detail and colors.
Associate these with high summer and, growing up in the southern hemisphere, with Christmas - indeed, we called them Christmas beetles as kids. They made a far more pleasant sound than the species featured here
Wake up, scream, try not to get eaten, die. I relate to these insects so hard.
I remember playing with their discarded exoskeletons when I was a kid.
I wonder if my Great Dane/Husky mix would like the taste of your Texas cicadas. She’s fierce fond of our Missouri species. Crunchy and cream-filled!
My dogs in Georgia love cicadas.
I remember hearing cicadas here in NC back around May-early June. The sound reminded me of a 1950s science-fiction movie spaceship shreek.
Cicadas remind me of warm, lazy, summer afternoons of childhood. However, “au contraire mon fraire” you can hear cicadas (Katy-did’s, crickets & fireflies too!) in any NYC neighborhood which has trees, yards & parks… yes, even in Manhattan! There’s supposed to be a huge cicada boon this year although I haven’t heard more than usual.
I suspect fire ants are limited by a Cordyceps fungus that came with them from Brazil (I think) but unlike the ants it can't take any freezing. They exist in Miami but they aren't the horror show there that they are in Dallas.
I asked researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer research center what they thought about trying to find a fire-ant specific cold-tolerant Cordyceps fungus like the Tibetan Yarsagumba fungus is but the researchers had a major freakout at the word "fungus."
@6:58 In it's last fleeting moments of consciousness it hears "That'd be a cool mask through! Lmao" 😂
Listening to quite a few of the local dog day cicadas here in Maine right now through my window. There's about 4 or 5 of them in range of me right now living in the scrubby broken forested zones of the west side of the state. I love their little ninja masks, always been my favorite insect aesthetic of all the native species. Giant water bugs close second, they got the cool mask too.
From what I’ve ready, the white dustiness that cicadas develop is dissolved solids depositing on their body, as some cicadas have evolved a form of sweating.
Cicada always let me know when summer is on the way and the second impact.
I love the sound. Our house is surrounded by trees, filled with the likes of cicadas and katidids.
Grew up in the 70s in southeastern WI and the cicadas were the sound of summer in the suburbs. Must have been a different species as I seem to recall them singing during the hot summer days, making those scorching humid afternoons even more surreal. The fireflies came out at night.
As a transplant to the Central Valley California, I miss the cicadas summer circadas from Virginia. There's nothing here most of the time, no crickets, rare bees and butterflies. Too, too much pesticide and herbicide. We're lucky to see a dragonfly or two.
Thank you for bringing this nature to us! 💜🌎🪲
Your intros always crack me up, but today was a different dance, my friend.. had to rewatch it five tines!
One of the only insects that rivals the sound of a cicada is a type of hawk moth that vibrates it's genitals against the inside of it's exoskeleton. The sound attracts mates but it also apparently jams the sonar of bats that would otherwise prey on them.
Thanks for the species descriptions, I'm in the RGV too, my first summer. First time they went off I thought it was an alarm!
Hey, don't dis my cicadas! They don't irritate me at all, love them -- love everything about them, including their love songs!
hahaha wow, that intro is something else
A few years ago, I was sitting on the porch listening to the cicadas. Then I realized it was December. Then I realized I have tinnitus when its too quiet around me. Then I realized my tinnitus sounds like cicadas. So I'm cool with that. Or I turn on some tunes.
Good Luck to Us All
Peace
No the worst sound comes from a cyclist yelling at you because your destroying their leisurely time while your trying to do your job. These sound beautiful!
Wow, the Giants are truly enormous. We don't have periodic cicadas where I live (Southern New England,) so there's generally only a few calling from trees, for a few short weeks in summer, and rarely call at night. I was delighted by the periodic cicadas mobbing the trees in Kansas, when I visited my daughter.
The afternoon droning of the Dog-day cicada is the quintessential sound of high summer!
Btw, I'm married to a loud Italian, so also have an appreciation for them!
Nature is the Original Artist!!
Love these guys,,,
~ but I don't get to hear them now I'm in the UK.😅
Thank you so Much for reminding me of this amazing sound! 😅❤
Namasté 🙏🕊️💞🌟
Andréa and Critters. ...XxX...
I love you man. This is how I feel about the world too. You’ve inspired me to illegally plant because I’ve watched drought and run off destroy the nature in Missouri, so I buy native seeds and throw them every day and the field by my place is full of nature now. From
Insects to birds, plants have made it such an impact
I was obsessed with cicadas as a kid, I vividly remember watching one molt for the first time. So magical and beautiful
This channel is so great. Just came across it yesterday
We have them here in Montreal. Cute but loud little buggers. I feel sorry for the ones I see with white -mold- fungus on them but thats nature. Please dont kill them, just snap a pic if you can and post it so any interested researches can track it. (edit: corrections derp)
Fun fact. In the upper Northern Hemisphere. They like to stick themselves to the sap of Fir trees in order to molt. I have always wanted to take the exoskeletons. Glue them to platforms and use them as a Warhammer 40K faction. Tyrranid Noise Marines. =D
I love cicadas, I got to see a brood of periodicals in Chicago when I was in junior high.
Love your videos & Thank you for posting/ doing everything you do.
I got to hear the double brood of 13 and 17 year cicadas earlier this year. First time I've ever heard them. It was amazing. Wonderful sound and all the other critters were feasting. They look so cool too.
Megatibicen grossus/auletes is the largest cicada in North America according to cicada researcher Kathy Hill. Quesada gigas would be the second largest in North America, but the #1 largest in Central and South America. Excellent video!!
In Auckland New Zealand a quarry had to go into temporary shutdown because the combined sound level of the cicadas and quarry machinery went over the allowable limit.
Some say it was a cicada that laid a complaint about the noise
I fucking love cicadas too! They're big, they sing too loud, they're just trying to find love-- highly relatable.
Also, goddamn it, your whole message in general is such a balm to my soul. I feel less crazy for feeling robbed of connection to nature by shitty development and landscaping. Getting to know my local native plants has done so much for my mental state.
Love this! In Dayton, Ohio area we have three common cicada species, and my favorite is Neotibicen tibicen tibicen. People call it "swamp cicada" but it is better called "morning cicada" because most all the time it sings in the morning, sometimes before the sun comes up if it is going to be a really hot and humid day. I like to call it "saltshaker" because it sounds rattly like a big loud saltshaker, revving up like an engine. It is the sound of summer mornings for me. Edit: Also the red "beads" are occeli, simple eyes that only see light and dark. And the white is probably wax yes.
the incredible drawn-out revving is my favourite part. god, cicadas are the best. i live in a country without them and i miss that sound in summer!
I was just telling people today at work how much I love cicadas. Good to know I'm not alone.
Watched a blue jay snag one not long ago, helluva noise came out of it.
I love cicadas so much. I bottle and preserve any bodies I find at the end of the summer. They're so beautiful and fascinating!
Idk if I could live somewhere without cicadas. Spent a good chunk of my youth climbing a huge Mulberry tree in my backyard, trying to see who could find the most shed exoskeletons. Simpler times ❤
I just bought a hamatacactus setispinus from Walmart this spring. They had labeled it Hamatocactus hamatocanthus, but the red spot gave it away. It took it about two months to open all the buds on it. You're right, more people should grow it.
We had a mass cicada hatch in GA 2-3 years ago. The sound was deafening, but the weird thing was all birds disappeared for that 10+/- days it was happening. I like in a rural area and keep feeders out year round. I also killed my lawn as soon as i moved in 4 years ago. peace
I hear cicadas all the time, but it's tinnitus 😉
I didn’t know people don’t like the sound of cicadas. It’s the sound of summer. What the hell is wrong with people?
Back in the 50s around Laredo, school kids would catch cicadas and tie a thread about a foot or so long around their thorax and then hold the loose end of the thread while the cicada buzzed around in a small circle. The only instance I know of where an insect was used as a toy.
Thank you, insect sounds are some of my favorite sounds. There are only 2 species of cicada where I live, and I always enjoy hearing them.
the adoptive benefit of whatever makes those white marks ( 9:00 min mark) is how amazingly they work in the camouflage scheme to match the horizontal white markings on the tree trunk.
Hit me up when you are ready to come to the Piney Woods of South Jerz..
The "white lipid" you're asking about at 8:54 is seen in some hemipteran true bugs. When cicadas and other plant-sucking bugs gather en masse, they can "pee" a lot, which contain higher amounts of glucose and other sugars, making for a sticky solution. The waxy substance can help to prevent the cicada's appendages from sticking together from this "pee" and other substances coating their bodies.
Me too, a Kansan, love cicadas. The empty shells are cool as sh*t to wear on my shirt like a ladies brooch.
I have run across squirrels munching on them on the sides of trees
I've got a picture on my phone of a cicada on a fence that just molted, it's wings weren't even dry. It was beautiful, such a bright green.
i'm here for any & all entomology love!!!
Love the sound of the insects in the summer. The frogs as well ❤
I really liked the vid of you with the young, mangy coyote pup, saving its life
I love 'em. In the brazilian summer it's basically like the mountains are screaming, they stop over by my house to molt sometimes.
the 3 red dot are eyes too !!!
Love them cicadas 💕
Never saw it, but there was one in Western Belize, along the Mopan River, that was so loud, you'd be just getting your fingers in your ears, and they'd stop, and of course that would go on, over and over for hours, at night.
When we were young, they told us they would stick them in the kids mouths to help them talk earlier. Something about the vibrations stimulating the vocal cords. I don't remember seeing it myself. But it's what I remember being told.
I love cicada, they remind me of warm summer nights and give me lots of pleasant nostalgia.
I miss the cicadas. I grew up in south Texas and love the sound of them. Those and all the birds in Texas really make you feel like part of the land. Plus it's somewhat of a unique experience bc not everyone one has them. Up here in Colorado we barely get them but maybe once in a blue moon.