Why are people so obsessed with cicadas?

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  • Опубликовано: 6 дек 2024

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  • @catarinabarbosa2247
    @catarinabarbosa2247 Год назад +185

    your videos got me into museum work and I'm a paleontologist now!!

    • @MossyMozart
      @MossyMozart Год назад +5

      @catarinabarbosa2247 - Congratulations! And Merry Holidays!!

    • @Oberon4278
      @Oberon4278 Год назад +6

      How often do you get to say, "It BELONGS in a MUSEUM"?
      Hopefully at least once a month.

  • @mikmak12711
    @mikmak12711 Год назад +251

    We missed you so much, Emily! 😭

    • @Octa9on
      @Octa9on Год назад +10

      THIS SO MUCH!

    • @thebrainscoop
      @thebrainscoop  Год назад +26

      I miss you, too!!!

    • @taylortracy8513
      @taylortracy8513 Год назад +3

      So so much 😭😭

    • @theograice8080
      @theograice8080 Год назад +4

      Ngl, having THE Emily Graslie on my screen brings me inspiration I had forgotten. Thank you so much for all you do, Emily! (edit: *got>for)

  • @grace5991
    @grace5991 Год назад +41

    i started watching the brain scoop in middle school and fell in love with museum education. I am now an educator at an aquarium! Thank you for your help in getting here!!

  • @michaelbushee3968
    @michaelbushee3968 Год назад +10

    Fun fact: part of why the "song" of a cicada is so loud is because part of their abdomen is rigid and hollow, turning part of the cicada's body into a sound box, like on a guitar or violin. Which is both cool and also kinda terrifying, in its own way.

  • @alanmctaggart4371
    @alanmctaggart4371 10 месяцев назад +2

    Even in the small number of videos you released during your hiatus, I could still tell you never lost your science communication chops. The World is a better place with you releasing videos, and that's a fact.

  • @DanielSolis
    @DanielSolis Год назад +81

    It's just wild to know so many of these cicada babies lurk underground all the time.

  • @thedoctordebbienahar
    @thedoctordebbienahar Год назад +20

    One of the most incredible things I have ever experienced was going to the woods just before dusk when this brood was emerging. If you stood still and listened you could hear just a crazy amount of quiet skittering as they emerged from underneath the leaf litter. It was so cool!

  • @Sandvich18
    @Sandvich18 Год назад +113

    most things are temporary, but Emily's smile is eternal

    • @LordDragox412
      @LordDragox412 Год назад +5

      10:30 **distant scrams of terror** Meanwhile Emily: :D

  • @budbert69
    @budbert69 Год назад +3

    Cicadas come out over Christmas in Australia, so are in many Christmas songs. Also there are many slang names for different types of Cicadas in Australia, like Green Grocer,. Blue Moon, Masked Devil, and Floury Baker.

  • @challalla
    @challalla Год назад +6

    Cicadas are also a favourite subject in origami. I remember seeing a video that showcased origami cicadas in increasing levels of complexity, and these creations are seriously impressive.

  • @Mordalon
    @Mordalon Год назад +32

    When it comes to Cicadas and Asian art I can't help but think of the ubiquity of their sounds in anime when representing the summer time. I recall Neon Genesis Evangelion uses the sound constantly. There's also the Pokemon Nincada which evolves both into the flying Ninjask while also leaving behind it's shell in the form of Shedinja the Ghost/Bug pokemon which literally has a single hit point.

    • @paleoph6168
      @paleoph6168 8 месяцев назад

      The cicada sounds in NGE are just 👌

  • @DamianVillasenor
    @DamianVillasenor 11 месяцев назад +1

    I began seeing your videos with soon racoon back when I was a bachelor, now I'm going to begin my PhD in tropical entomology. Your videos were a BIG FACTOR in keeping me in this biological path. Thanks Emily, you're such a radiant star!

  • @clarissajones7699
    @clarissajones7699 Год назад +5

    I am sending this to the next person in a poetry workshop who says I have cicadas in 'too many poems.'

    • @thebrainscoop
      @thebrainscoop  Год назад +5

      it's impossible to have too many poems with cicadas, you can cite me on that

  • @sophiafern
    @sophiafern Год назад +4

    The Pizza John shirt really ties this welcome back all together. Welcome back Emily! I missed your stuff so much 😭

  • @Alobster1
    @Alobster1 Год назад +3

    It's so good to see you back. It feels like an old friend is back to visit, hopefully to stay. I've never witnessed a large cicada brood emerging so this was great. The ones we have in western Kansas don't seem to have much of a spawning pattern and they look quite different.

  • @call-me-pigeon
    @call-me-pigeon Год назад +63

    Idk where Emily is based now, but if she is still in thr Chicago area, it would be dope to get an episode on the Insect Asylum!! Lots of cool specimines AND a possum named Hazel!!!

    • @thebrainscoop
      @thebrainscoop  Год назад +45

      ooooh you don't have to tell me twice!!

    • @SoonRaccoon
      @SoonRaccoon Год назад +14

      @@thebrainscoop And, it looks like brood XIII will be popping off in the Chicago area in 2024.

    • @justinove7521
      @justinove7521 Год назад +1

      @@thebrainscoop Idk where Emily is based now, but if she is still in thr Chicago area, it would be dope to get an episode on the Insect Asylum!! Lots of cool specimines AND a possum named Hazel!!! 🤪

    • @hazelhumphreys9512
      @hazelhumphreys9512 Год назад +2

      Hi, my name is Hazel and I too am a weird little trash gremlin. I absolutely need to know more about this possum thankyouplease. 🖤

  • @MexicanHobbit
    @MexicanHobbit Год назад +2

    Love the Pizza John cameo! So glad to see you back!

  • @sarahleonard7309
    @sarahleonard7309 Год назад +15

    I remember a few years ago when we had an emergence here. My family and I weren't really paying much attention. But when we visited a local zoo we quickly realized that the entire massive lawn leading up to the front gate was completely covered in cicadas crawling towards the trees. There must have been thousands of them just in that one place!

  • @lindenbug
    @lindenbug Год назад +3

    I for one am definitely obsessed with cicadas! Those 2021 brood X cicadas came out around my university as I was graduating, so that’s a special memory for me, as noisy and overwhelming as they were, all over campus, all over town, and all over the hiking trails I frequented. I even had to keep them out of the donut shop I worked at.

  • @owencardona5185
    @owencardona5185 Год назад +8

    I love Emily’s content so much. Been watching this show ever since the wolf dissection video haha. So happy to see how it has changed over the years, as have I. It scratches that curiosity itch I can only scratch with a…well, with a brain scoop

  • @lightbox617
    @lightbox617 Год назад

    Remember May flies?
    On Skaneateles lake in Northern NY, every spring My grandparents lake house changed color from yellow to ,,,,well,,,Mayfly. It lasted a day or two but was a memorable event. As I lived in Illinois, on the NorthWest side of Chicago, I watched the twice annual migration of Starlings. Swarms of birds that looked like clouds in the skies. In the late 1990, I was in bergen Co , NJ for a mass hatch of 17 year Cicadas. I collected dozens of Nymphy shell and wings that birds di not eat. Together with living Cicadas, a great photo project. I live in Newark , NJ now and find that all of this , all of the flocks and swarms and hatches are gone from here. I miss it all

  • @TheShadow402
    @TheShadow402 9 месяцев назад +1

    I just saw this. Boy, you were missed! Your energy and smile can make anyone happy.

  • @cpoco
    @cpoco Год назад +1

    So good to see you back. We grew up with yearly Cicada "symphonies" but at some point they seemed to stop (or it could be they weren't in the areas I moved to. Early this year though I came across those familiar shells and a smile crossed my face. We never had them in the numbers you showed though (not sure if that's because we're in Australia?).

  • @osmia
    @osmia Год назад +3

    My brain is running around in circles trying to imagine all the things that you're going to show us on this rebooted Channel

  • @Empress_Moth
    @Empress_Moth Год назад +10

    Welcome back Emily!! We missed you so much!! Looking forward to everything you do here :)

  • @brianbuch1
    @brianbuch1 11 месяцев назад +1

    Are there studies on the effect the cicadas during their underground phase have upon the forest ecology?
    Glad to have you back again!

  • @paulkinzer7661
    @paulkinzer7661 Год назад +2

    I love cicadas, even after I was made aware of an emergence once right in the middle of painting a house. I stopped, but for some it was too late; poor things!
    I can't wait to see what you have coming up for us!

  • @thelonewolfspirit
    @thelonewolfspirit Год назад

    I go to the southern area of Massachusetts frequently, and was always shocked to see cicada shells, since at my home to the north we really don't have them around despite being less than 100 miles away. The map you showed finally solves that question for me! Looks like just a small portion of southern mass has a cicada population, so I am very lucky to have seen them at all!

  • @nectarina3891
    @nectarina3891 Год назад +5

    I love your art lab videos! and so happy to have you back on The Brain Scoop!!!!!! it still has brains on it.

    • @conmckfly
      @conmckfly 11 месяцев назад

      I thought that was what she said.....!

  • @NileKelly
    @NileKelly 2 месяца назад

    My favorite insect. They are just so cool. As a classic hot rod guy, cicada faces remind me alot of the fronts of many late 30's and 1940's front ends, with the "grill" and headlight look. Example: when you see a cicada face, it's a 1947 Dodge pickup, I swear.
    They are graceful insects, with that face, their eyes, unique wings, and streamlined body. I love hearing them in the trees. They seem to have gentle and semi-tame personalities. They don't bite nor sting. I wish their lifespans were longer. I just love them, period.

  • @ArrowOfTruth01
    @ArrowOfTruth01 Год назад +14

    I'm so flipping excited you're back Emily!

  • @dis3545
    @dis3545 Год назад +8

    It's so good to see your face again Emily and feel your enthusiasm, half across the world (hello from Iceland. You have several fans here 😁 )

  • @tarekmohamed3263
    @tarekmohamed3263 Год назад +22

    not just Science but History as well, it couldn't be more brilliant.

  • @arjovenzia
    @arjovenzia Год назад

    Your cicadas are special for their rarity, for me in SW Oz, it's a timing thing. Peak cicada is around Christmas. Presents in the morning, massive lunch, about 2pm every one has a bit of quiet time for a nap or read your new book or whatever. And the soundtrack for that exceptional slice of the year is a cacophony of cicadas.

  • @williamperry1433
    @williamperry1433 Год назад +5

    I miss your videos so much. So happy to see you return.

  • @mysteriousdruid4947
    @mysteriousdruid4947 Год назад +5

    It is such a pleasure that you are back.

  • @StarSong936
    @StarSong936 Год назад

    Welcome back. I'll just say the cats enjoy the cicadas more than I do since they eat them. There was one time someone asked me about a hole in the ground I was looking at. So I told them what I knew about the cicadas lifecycle and that I had seen the cicada that made that hole. Interesting insects, but the noise can be a little distracting when you are trying to sleep. There are times when you can find their exoskeletons all over the trees, on your house, and on picnic tables when they emerge in the spring and summer.

  • @LiminalLegion
    @LiminalLegion Год назад +1

    I'm so happy you're back! I missed hearing you enthusiastically teach us about so many neat things. Your smile and excitement when you talk about things makes me so excited to learn things with you

  • @AlphaPhoenixChannel
    @AlphaPhoenixChannel Год назад

    "The distant screaming of those who are less excited" had me rolling. I gotta go watch OG brain scoop!

  • @whitehorsept
    @whitehorsept Год назад +7

    I am personally not a big fan of insects, am even allergic to them unfortunately. But your genuine enthusiasm is really awesome, which made me watch the full thing. :) Welcome back! Looking forward to more of your videos. :)

  • @censusgary
    @censusgary Год назад

    I’m so happy it still has brains on it!
    I love cicadas. Ours in Texas don’t have a 17- or 13-year cycle; they emerge every year during the hottest part of summer. They look like big jewels, bright pearly white and emerald green, with clear wings overlaid with black lace. I love their loud, loud song. To me, it’s the sound of summer heat. 🪰

  • @bw4708
    @bw4708 Год назад

    I’m guessing I’m repeating what everyone else has said but I’ll say it again for the sake of the algorithm - fantastic to have you back! Very excited to see where this channel goes from here!

  • @DaveTpletsch
    @DaveTpletsch Год назад +3

    OMG. This just popped up and I had to click right away! I"M SO EXCITED FOR A NEW BRAINSCOOP VIDEO!

  • @R.Instro
    @R.Instro Год назад

    11:15 - Man, the sound of those old-school phasers going into overload....

  • @moviemaestro800
    @moviemaestro800 Год назад +1

    That scream of terror in the distance shouldn't have made me chuckle like it did. 😂

  • @rdreher7380
    @rdreher7380 Год назад +1

    Cicada have a HUGE presence in the Japanese cultural consciousness, a lot more than your mentions of Japanese art could even begin to explain. People who have lived in Japan can start to understand why. Even though I grew up with cicadas in North America, and remember well one of the periodic broods taking over Baltimore when we went to see my brother's graduation from Johns Hopkin's-the Japanese cicada are so much more ubiquitous, their song a constant, overpowering chorus all summer long. Cicada's are thus closely associated with the summer months, and Japanese art and decoration loves the make references to the seasons.
    The discarded husk of the cicada nymph is called a 空蝉 utsusemi, or "empty cicada." This word is used in Japanese Buddhism to describe the nature of your self, your present word, which is all in fact "empty." "Emptiness" or 空 kū (Sanskrit: Śūnyatā), is one of the most difficult to understand concepts in Buddhism, and I wont pretend I am enlightened enough to fully grasp it, but it refers to the temporariness and ephemerality of all things. Nothing has a permeant, quintessential self, so everything is "empty." Rather, all things are interconnected, inter-caused, by all other things. All this depth of meaning and beauty is summed up in the image of shed cicada shell.

    • @Plasmacore_V
      @Plasmacore_V Год назад

      Every year you can hear them constantly throughout summer in the US too.

  • @lisawelsh9359
    @lisawelsh9359 10 месяцев назад

    Thank you SO MUCH for bringing us "thebrainscoop" and for bringing it back. I love how you merge nature, art, and history in this episode. I'm excitedly waiting to see where you take the new Brainscoop!!

  • @ARTiculations
    @ARTiculations Год назад

    Ooooo I have very fond childhood memories of loud cicada sounds every summer growing up in China. Had no idea about the national obsession about them despite being from there lol. Totally gonna read more about them now. Also can't wait for new Brain Scoop content!!! Hope you have a great holiday season Emily!

  • @willisfouts4838
    @willisfouts4838 Год назад

    Accurate map. Here in East Tennessee, the last emergence was 2008. The red eyed variety. As we live in the deep woods, there were millions and millions. By the end of it all, everything had had their fill. You could here animals regurgitating in the woods, daily. You’d see piles of half chewed cicada everywhere.
    Even the fish stopped biting them, as bait, lol.

  • @SullenEchoes
    @SullenEchoes Год назад +1

    Emily! I missed your videos so much! I'm so glad to see you back.

  • @rosieblankenship
    @rosieblankenship Год назад

    It's so cool to see you at IU! I worked at a campus near there when brood x emerged in 2004 and it became a sort of bug tourist destination. I was excited to see them again in 2021. Not so excited about them crawling up my face, but the noise and the sheer numbers are hard to describe. It's a fascinating phenomenon! Glad to see you back on YT!

  • @dycorty9182
    @dycorty9182 Год назад +2

    Amazing to see you back Emily!!!!!

  • @JustinThorntonArt
    @JustinThorntonArt Год назад

    I’m so excited to have one of my all time favorite RUclipsrs return. And as an artist interested in science like you, I’m pulling for you.
    If you are ever interested doing any videos about the intersection of art and science in photography let me know, I’d be happy to share my knowledge with you. My current medium of focus is cyanotypes and this mediums use as a scientific tool by mid 19th century botanists used it to catalogue specimens is a major influence on my work.
    But I’m well versed in the general history of photography and much of its early use really had a huge impact on science and art often because of the exact same images.
    Again I’m so happy you are back.

  • @chaeburger
    @chaeburger Год назад

    Brain Scoop is back and I couldn't be more excited!!

  • @Laurasiana
    @Laurasiana Год назад

    Yay! You’re back! And now I’m going to look up a cicada brood map to find the next emergence in my region. X was too far from here, alas.

  • @exploderen
    @exploderen Год назад +1

    I love cicadas, I love that you're back, and I love that Pizza John shirt

    • @thebrainscoop
      @thebrainscoop  Год назад +2

      I went to art school with David Miles Lusk, who designed it!! We took printmaking classes together. His prints are gorgeous: anomalpress.com/

    • @exploderen
      @exploderen Год назад

      @@thebrainscoop omg his work is so gorgeous, ty for dropping the link! 💜

  • @emc2beans
    @emc2beans Год назад +1

    I've been lucky enough to see two emergences of Brood X and it was very heartening to see other people as excited as I was for the 2021 emergence. Here's to the next one, 2038 here we come!

  • @harrisoctavius
    @harrisoctavius Год назад +1

    I was so excited about the relaunch of the channel that I had to message my friend and promptly forgot to comment (I think). These cicadas are amazing :D

  • @miserablerhurensohn
    @miserablerhurensohn Год назад

    Looking forward to all your new material. Very comforting to have you back with your enthusiasm for science.

  • @CDyan
    @CDyan Год назад +1

    I hadn't realized how much I had missed your videos. But your enthusiasm and science nerdyness is such a sunshine ray in my day !

  • @LLAAPPSSEE
    @LLAAPPSSEE Год назад

    Cicadas are just cool, chunky, weird summer-time anime noise bugs.
    I've used them in my music as a "shaker" kinda sound before.

  • @BallotBoxer
    @BallotBoxer Год назад

    What a life! Seventeen years of sipping sap in total darkness underground and then living it up on the surface for a week.

  • @Nyaarys
    @Nyaarys Год назад +1

    I love cicadas, they are so fascinating, but I don't think my sensory issues would let me go see a periodical brrod swarm.
    I'm glad I got to experience that joy vicariously through Emily! ^.^

  • @Domdrok
    @Domdrok Год назад +1

    I live in brood V (2016) territory. It was a bad year for a number of reasons, as you can imagine. I basically didn't go outside the whole time.

  • @konstantinbreen
    @konstantinbreen Год назад +3

    I'm happy you are back.
    You are really freaking cool.
    Love you're science work!

  • @Subscriberfromwayback
    @Subscriberfromwayback 11 месяцев назад

    I was just changing my channel alerts and wondered how the brain scoop was going. You're back!!! Omg yay!!!

  • @SomeoneBeginingWithI
    @SomeoneBeginingWithI Год назад

    I was subscribed to the brain scoop right from the start and I had no idea this video existed, thank you for reuploading it here!

  • @TheLuluTrue
    @TheLuluTrue 7 месяцев назад

    We don’t have cicadas in Germany (I think). At least I’ve never seen a cicada before so this video has been super interesting to me. I’ve always wondered why there are so many cicadas in literature and music but it makes so much sense now.

  • @rickseiden1
    @rickseiden1 Год назад

    So glad you're back! Love your videos!

  • @dingaia
    @dingaia Год назад

    never thought i'd be moved by an ancient poem about cicadas

  • @MakerFishmeal
    @MakerFishmeal Год назад

    I'm so happy you're back 😭 Congratulations!!

  • @anacondatiger
    @anacondatiger Год назад +3

    i-i-is this ... Your cicada moment....👀
    Also, it's so amazing to have you back! I'm so excited for you and the show and the community!!

  • @Davidbaratunk
    @Davidbaratunk Год назад

    Its great to see you upload again. Didn't really care for bugs before, but your enthusiasm is infectious and your expertise keeps the attention throughout.

  • @chrisisteas
    @chrisisteas Год назад

    I remember watching this the first time and rewatching it a few times with friends. This video is great and I don't mind rewatching this. Thanks Emily for your wonderful work.

  • @laurab.7260
    @laurab.7260 Год назад

    Great video! im so excited this channel is back!!!

  • @andrebasden
    @andrebasden Год назад

    So great to have you back! Also I don't know if you're still in Chicago but if you are you've probably already checked out Insect Asylum but if you HAVEN'T... well... you should. Also if you're not there anymore it's okay but if and when you visit you should check them out.

  • @theinconsistentpark9060
    @theinconsistentpark9060 Год назад +1

    you are back for realz!

  • @antonio.juanfdez
    @antonio.juanfdez Год назад +1

    I love this videos so much, it's great to see this kind of effort in youtube

  • @susanne5803
    @susanne5803 Год назад

    Shaun Tan's book "Cicada" (2019) comes to my mind ... Thank you very much!

  • @Leo_Lionhart
    @Leo_Lionhart Год назад +1

    My first thought was death and reborn. But they are not reborn. I don’t get that.
    Sometimes their deaths are fascinating. The corpse is nowhere near a tree, the body is intact, no ants is taking its body apart, no insect is eating its corpse. And I never get to finish my episode of CSI: Insects. The murder/death of the cicada is never solved.

  • @blurfs3763
    @blurfs3763 Год назад +1

    She said "bug-eyed" with nary a smirk.

  • @joelspitsnaugle
    @joelspitsnaugle Год назад

    woah, I just searched to see what you were up to a week ago to see if there was a new project, so glad to see this get picked back up! love the content and presentation!

  • @lakrids-pibe
    @lakrids-pibe Год назад +1

    Distant scream of terror
    lol

  • @KristenCanada1756
    @KristenCanada1756 Год назад

    Couldn't be more pumped for you to return to this channel!

  • @Sardonicuss
    @Sardonicuss Год назад +2

    Any future dissections? Maybe with some death metal blasting in the background?

  • @cicad2007
    @cicad2007 Год назад +5

    Woo Hoo! Emily's back! Yay! Looking forward to more Brainscoop videos, 🙂

  • @alfthai
    @alfthai Год назад

    Welcome back! So glad I never unsubscribed from this!

  • @shannonsteven808
    @shannonsteven808 11 месяцев назад

    Im so glad youre posting again!

  • @alex4alexn
    @alex4alexn Год назад

    i literally had tens of thousands of these in the yard, we had an empty trashcan for leaf litter and they flew in and filled up the full sized trashcan in the span of 2 days

  • @MammaApa
    @MammaApa Год назад

    We don't have them here in northern Sweden. Theres not even a word for them in our language. Closest thing we got here are grasshoppers and crickets. Since cicadas are both big and loud I don't think I'm very sorry about this "shortcoming" in our ecosystem. It's not a bug, it's a feature.

  • @jesse6198
    @jesse6198 Год назад

    i missed this!!!

  • @earthlingsartist
    @earthlingsartist Год назад

    Omg!! I'm so happy to see you! Welcome back!

  • @gonzalo-ortiz
    @gonzalo-ortiz Год назад

    I was thinking a couple of days ago, wishing to see your first video, and is hereeee!! So happy to see you back, Emily! 🥳🎆

  • @North_West1
    @North_West1 Год назад

    Oh my!!!! Emilies back. The best Christmas present of the year.

  • @eduardoanavarrov4840
    @eduardoanavarrov4840 Год назад

    Omg, opening with Cicadas!!!!
    Loving the insect coverage!!
    When I saw this video for the first time, I was so engaged with Periodical cicadas!! Love them

  • @kevininman2461
    @kevininman2461 10 месяцев назад

    The thing that amazes me about Cicadas is - I have areas of my backyard that remain flooded for days at a time. In these same areas, I'll find holes left by emerging Cicadas!
    How can they last that long submerged?

  • @SoonRaccoon
    @SoonRaccoon Год назад

    I got to see brood XIII in 2007. It really was a very cool experience.

  • @PeggyKTC
    @PeggyKTC Год назад

    Rhe connection between the cicadas and art and their biology is so interesting, and I really like the idea of cicadas. But watching that last bit of the video, if I was in a cicada area I think it would totally freak me out to have them emerging everywhere and possibly landing on me (yikes).

  • @webfighter
    @webfighter Год назад +1

    Welcome back, Emily! 🥳

  • @shutterbug1076
    @shutterbug1076 11 месяцев назад

    I'm so glad you're back!!!