RETURN OF THE BLACK PRINCE - The Life Cycle of a Cicada
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- THIS IS THE SOUND OF CHRISTMAS DOWN UNDER!
Come and explore the extraordinary world of Black Prince cicadas in the Northern Rivers of NSW, Australia, with me at The Weedy Garden! Witness their emergence after seven years underground, creating a symphony in the Flooded Gums surrounding The Weedy Garden. Learn about their deafening 120-decibel call, discover the cicadas' unique mating rituals and the mystery behind how they count the passing years.
Join me for this brief but captivating insight into nature's wonders in The Weedy Garden.
Thank YOU Sir David Attenborough for teaching us more about them 15 years ago. I remembered most of it :-)
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I have a magical story of cicadas.... every morning and every evening on our US military base in Japan the national anthems of both countries were blasted over loudspeakers... one year the cicadas came out and I just happened to be walking to work early in the morning (beautiful clear sunny morning) under the trees where the cicadas were making their normal ear-splitting racket..... THEN the music started playing and ALL THE CICADAS MATCHED THE MUSICAL TONES AND TEMPO OF THE MUSIC UNTIL IT WAS OVER!!! I had to stop and stand at attention anyway (military rules) but I was stopped right under the trees so I was immersed in their energy, .Right away I could tell something in the cicadas song had changed, but my brain was trying to figure it out....when I did, I couldn't believe it, oh 'ell no...there's no (frkn) way they're matching the music!! but they were!! for 2 whole songs!! Thousands of them and they were all "singing" in unison!! Their vibrations were so strong they were vibrating ME!! just like bass and drums do in a disco!! OMG!! When the music stopped, I just stood there for a while more and listened and they all went back to their normal "all taking at once" vibrating patterns.... un freakn believable!! There were no witnesses to it, no one believed me, but it happened... sometimes you get lucky and get to witness pure magic... something in the sound of the music turned them all into little musicians, a cicada symphony, for a few minutes that day... never ever forget those few moments!!
nice story. 🙏🏻😃 I love hearing about special moments like that. My book is actually about just those moments! Thanks for sharing this experience 💪🏻😁
Nature is just amazing ...
Happy Christmas to all 🎉
What a beautiful experience you had, Debra!! 😊
Pure magic!! Thanks for sharing. 🙏❤️
What a lucky experience ❤️
Used to catch them as a kid and even wear the shells as 'jewellery' 😀
I also click my fingers at my husband when ready to mate lol 😋 And merry Christmas all
😂
The sound is so nostalgic to me, reminds me of my childhood (Im in my 60s)
Im just seeing this. The Cicadas are out here in the Eastern United States. Im in West Central Georgia. We are having a 17 yrs cycle and a 13 year cycle. Wont happen again until 2234 I think. There upteen million in my little paradise.
From what I have read, they have antimicrobial wings that are waterproof and self cleaning. Thinking maybe bandaid should look at this, lol. While in the ground they clean the soil and water around them.
One thing is for sure, they are Very Loud 📢. The cats love to eat them, the dog loves them, and the Chickens have gained 10 lbs. In the last week.
Cool video 😎 thanks for putting it up!
Merry Christmas Sir❤❤❤
Sólamente una vez pude ver una de esas chicharras aquí en Málaga (España) y se la estaba comiendo una Mantis Religiosa.
La chicharra no paraba de hacer ese sonido incluso mientras estaba siendo devorada.
In the Southeast of the US, the wings, eyes and legs of the cicadas are orange! Whereas in my home state of Michigan they're overall green wings with splotches of green on the body and dark green to blackish legs. Amazing creatures...
what a fine job yours is, "maestro"....greetings from the other side of the world
We love the sound of these in the Summer. Although not too close :/
Hello :) Oh the cicadas this year.. I'm not too far from you (I hadn't seen your youtube channel and videos until late yesterday when your hugelkultur video popped into my feed. I was so excited and clicked straight on it as I love all things gardening/permie/local, but I had to stop peeking as I had an artwork due today. As random as things can get, right after learning of you via your video last night I just happened to meet Mrs Weedy today!! 😳☺. What a season we've had.. I didn't get as much gardening done as usual because when I was outside I had to have my hands over my ears.. Truly! We've had all the usual cicada types here before, but this year we've just said farewell (impatiently, and thank goodness) to what looks a bit like your Black Prince eventually but hatches with a dusty coating and is known as Floury Miller for that floury reason. It looked very camouflaged against a pale mottled trunk.. and then the white eventually rubs off .. We haven't heard Floury Miller before, but, eek, it is so high pitched and it shrieks from dawn to post dusk.. it starts with one high 'hiss', and then more join in, and it's deafening. I reckon they're louder than the 120 DCB and there are so many of them.
I'm a bit late viewing this, sorry, missed somehow. The cicadas are deafening but I love it. It means Summer and holidays. As kids we used to put the shells on our clothes as decoration. Thanks for a beautiful video once again and the info about the cicadas making different noises. I didn't know that. Have a great year!
An wise old man told me one day we could learn a lot about ourselves just by studying the life of the Cicada. Otherworldly beings……
I wonder how we do that?
@@TheWeedyGarden patience, my friend, patience 💚💚
They would drive me nuts real quick..
My new daughter is named after the chorus of little cicadas. Kikihitangi.
I love their sound. It’s a loud song towards dusk here in the states during the summer.
Growing up i had such bad headaches. I would be in bed for hours with lights or and curtains closed with a pillow over my head to another the sounds of those bugs! I kinda hated them because i could not escape their noise during those headaches. My son calls the headaches the family curse. At 60 8 no longer have the headaches and long to hear the sound. I don't recall hearing it this year.
This was fascinating! I didn't know the females made a different sound. I love when they emerge in our neck of the woods. Their sounds always comfort me. Thank you for another wonderful video ❤
Wow beautiful cicadas my daughter loves listening to them at her school which has a lot of trees ❤️
Thank you for this video, so much I didn't know. They have been the same here in Brisbane
When we were little growing up in Ontario, we called them sewing Beatles lol.. ancient law said they would come down and so your lips shut if you looked at them up close! Never saw one in person 😅 but the sound I will never forget
Brilliant! Thansk you.
Here in Texas USA we call them Locas
As usual that was great thank you
Love you weedy, had a blessed Xmas ❤
We have many green ones. The noise is deafening this year.
It sounds just like our old cabin in Arkansas! ❤❤❤
I can't tell cicadas or crickets. Thank you
Gorgeous. We have plenty of Black Princes in Sydney. Alas I have not seen any Green Grocers for a couple of decades. They were everywhere in the 70s.
interesting. maybe they have a 17 yr cycle and you just happen to miss it? Travelling overseas? In a city??
Merry Christmas Weedy!
First want to say Happy Christmas to you and I love your videos!! I’m in central Alabama USA and we have cicadas. I also have tinnitus and that’s the sound I hear 24/7.
I replied an earlier comment regarding sound therapy for tinnitus
Great video!! I’ve never heard cicadas like I have in the Northern Rivers! Mind blowing!
Well there ya go, is that why I haven’t heard that summer sound for years? Looking forward to hearing them again in the southern states (of Australia) Thanks for the lesson.
its a wonderful old sound... that always means that summer and xmas is on the way ... just wonderful...
Merry Christmas mate - Thank you for your wonderful work.
Happy holidays!
They are loud in Sydney at my place too😊
beautifull
Love you Bro
Fantastic footage weedy. Cool little vid!
Have a merry Christmas tomorrow guys all the best
Thanks Dale 🫵🏻2
Great as usual 💐💐
How many days of this, does it go on for 😮
A few weeks
Massive very nice
Great video. OMGoodness if only the cicadas in my head (tinnitus) 24/7 would stop for 7 years!
It has just gone midnight, Happy Christmas🌲🙏 Blessings to you all, wishing you all Peace and Love.
I heard not so long ago about a releif for that. It is by listening to a certain tone with headphones the tinnitus goes away. You might want to look into it. Try searching healing tinnitus with sound waves???
@@TheWeedyGarden Thanks Weedy, I will defiantly look into this.
I know so little but I do remember my mum telling me about all the names of the different Cidacas when I was little. She grew up in the Blue Mountains and we moved round lots as I grew up. I am sure there were names for the brown ones and green ones and to me me now looking back it was was like names for marbles.
yeah. Kids used to catch them and trade them like they do marbles
Thank you Weedy!
Thank you too Grandmomzoo
amazing content as always 👍
Appreciate it!
You have such great photography. Why ruin it with low resolution?
Which shot are you referring too?
@@TheWeedyGarden All of your videos. They are always in 1080 and not 4k. Such beautiful art which would look amazing on my OLED TV. You are so talented.
@@microbefeeder Ah yes. I must say I agree with you but 4k takes way too long to edit, way too long to upload plus my canon only shoots in HD 🤔 There’s your answer. I leased a decent camera to shoot some footage for my movie, but sent it back as it was too expensive seeing as I only make a couple of grand a month atm doing this new job of mine (RUclips only). Please buy me a new camera and I’ll upload in 2k after I receive it 😂😂😂😂😂🫵🏻👍😃 I have the same heartache that you have on this topic 🥲🥲🥲
Awe! bummer. Regardless, you are talented. Thanks for the videos. @@TheWeedyGarden
Hello Weedy👋
Congratulations. You won my book. yay 🎉😊
@@TheWeedyGarden I won!! 😃👏Weedy thank you, to have won your beautiful book, I feel honoured. 🤗
We get once every 17 years. One restaurant did a chocolate dip with them a long time ago 😂😂
did u taste?
My dogs will eat them if they can catch them.
lol