For the most part you are correct. However, during one year in which the periodical cicadas were out, I had a bag of "cassini" (the smaller ones that are completely black on the underside, and usually prefer ash trees) I brought into our lab, and the manager of the lab wanted me to take them out because the shrill sound bothered him so much--this species DOES sound somewhat like someone shaking a bag full of marbles. The other species, such as the larger "decims" that have much orange underneath the abdomen, make a "weeeeee-oh" sound. The remaining "decula" species, which are small with thin orange bands underneath, make a sound like someone whistling in and out, or squeezing a rubber toy making this sound.
I'm in Louisiana, and we have them every year in late summer. I don't know where this "every 13 years" thing comes from...unless it's some different kind of cicada.
well, because every year there are new cicadas emerging on their 10 or 13th year, so it's a separate generation of cicadas so to speak. That's why you hear them every year.
They don't need any defense. Their defense is swarming. In this stage of their life, all they exist to do is mate. They do have claws on their feet to hold onto trees, which pokes and kinda hurts a little, but not much.
One of my favorite noises of all time. When I hear a cicada, I am instantly taken back to summer evenings in Michigan. I moved out of state last year, and these are one of the things I miss more than anything! I never would have thought I could miss an insect and the noise it makes, but just goes to show you all the tiny things you take for granted, and you only realize you are without them when they are not around anymore.
9 years old 11 years ago huh? This unique kid is 20-21 years old today I’d imagine. I hope that his love for insects and the outdoors is still alive and well today! We need more adults like him. Nature is beautiful and needs to be protected. ❤️
Wish I was similar to that boy, like a big enthusiast that can just walk along looking and thinking it's way more fun that sitting in front of the computer all day :/
We have this sound every summer here in Greece, and yes, means 'summer" for everyone. I asked once a Canadian what's the equivalent of summer for them and he replied 'the smell of the cutted grass'. I guess there is an equivalent for everybody.
These bugs come out late summer and reminds me that fall is on it's way. It is the most beautiful sound to me. Also it completely relaxes me and puts me in such a trance. It is a love song.
Cicadas are one of my favorite bugs! I remember when I was a child one year the cicadas were so loud we had to yell to be heard. I've seen actually come out of it's shell.
@@GrubbyPigeon you should really lighten up. It was a joke and a 4 year old joke at that. I have no problems with children enjoying nature. Don’t turn a light-hearted joke into more than it is.
17 year cicada. I was there in 1984 it was unreal in the D.C. area. I was Jim Stewartson's house and his room was around back of the house in an old time area of Takoma Park,Maryland and you had to come out of the dark and walk up towards the road. Along the way to my car I heard this crunching sound. As I walked across the yard the sound was with me every step and my car was parked under the light and that is when I saw them tens of thousands of Cicadas all over the road and all crawling at once. I got a massive case of heebie-jee-bies and then was like "THIS IS INCREDIBLE!". I went back into the house to get Jim and John to show them the same way I found them while being in the middle of a swarming mass. Jim asked, "What is that crunching sound?" is a high voice seeming to know something is wrong then we stopped and he asked, "Why it the ground moving....?" and sort of trailed off. "OH MY GOD!" he yelled and ran back into the house trying not to touch the ground. The new few weeks empty husks lay on all the trees as the Cicadas began to sing in the trees. The sound was a massive din that shook the very city. It was the only sound like a hurricane or great storm that shook the very fabric of the air. It waned and ebbed in cycles and you could hear groups echoing each other for miles in ever direction millions upon millions of cicada flying in the air and on ever branch and leave it seemed covering the entire area with sound. It is one of the most singularly awesome act of nature I have ever seen. #TheEyeofTHOR
I always wanted to know what made this sound that I love so much. I thought it was a bird but know I know it's an insect & I hate insects but this one is the only one I welcome in my world because it represents summer & to me the sound of it is very calming and relaxing. I love it !!
This is really sweet. I know just how Lucas feels. I was about 14 when I was nipped by bug love! I love all insects and bugs, and I have a very special affection for Cicadas. My dog day cicadas are here every summer and I got to watch 3 of them transform yesterday. They are look like little angels in the trees, and I love their songs!
I'm confused. Between Missouri and Iowa, I've never had a summer without cicadas. And, that would be a cicada, not a locust which looks like a large grasshopper.
Sitting on the back porch, summertime, my nephew & I, he's about the age of this boy in the video, he says, "I can barely hear the cicadas over the cicadas...lol!" 😄🐞🐝💕🐜🐛😉
Their sounds bring me peace .... I love them!!! The sound they makes ... Helps me calm down after a long day.. When I'm fishing their sound is soooo awesome!!!! I'm a city girl from Philly but moved down south... They sing to me!!😂😂😂
It's hilarious to watch all the newscasters playing with the cicadas with the exception of the freaked out one in red as she sits in the middle trying desperately to sink into the sofa!! LOL
They are fascinating. And darn cute. And I like there sounds. I've had a lot of experiences this summer 2020 especially. I have learned so much from Lucas, thank you. It is so awesome when I see the youth enjoying these things and nature. Keep it up. Even my husband will not hold them. I have another one sitting on me and walking around for about an hour now. Seems maybe he is older. He does not seem to want to leave💙 I don't even think I can go to sleep because this guy came slamming into me a bit ago. We have a lot of ants here and they are pretty busy workers. I know they will attack. I loved this video. Thank you for sharing and your wonderful spirit. Keep up the great work
Another cicada website states that scientists name each "brood" numerically. They can tell you which brood will appear this summer, and which brood for next summer, and so on. The larvae appear after 17 years underground and shed their exoskeleton that we find everywhere. Then their wings fill with water and they plump up to full adult size, and start to produce that loud mating call. Next summer has a different "brood" name/number. Very interesting insects!
I can hold spider, ants, most beetles, house flies (rare to hold them), and I have a connection with ant I ever hold bugs, lightning bugs, worms, and caterpillars...but I'm afraid of cicadas and moths...lmao
I have noticed in the last few years in Wythe County Va there has been a decrease. Its July 31 and no jar flies. We call the yearly ones jar flies. Its strange they use to sing every year.
They say the sound of summer. Since I was a kid and now I would say the sounds always start in the late summer. The sounds would start in August in the late summer evenings. We always call them katydids. I am from Western Pa. living now in Eastern Pa.
To everyone posting here about hearing these every summer...That's right you do the are called annual Cicadas...These are periodical Cicadas that hatch every 13 & 17 yrs depending on where you live..I've never seen this before & always wanted to ... It's one of natures magnificent occurrences ..I used to catch 10 Cicadas a day when I was a kid...Kudos to this kid for doing this & not being sucked in by the video game craze
Each cicada may have a 13 year cycle, but they are in KC every year from about late July through most of August. When I heard them start their noise every evening in the summer, I knew school was starting soon.
Its pretty normal n common here during the summer seasons..Some can be quiet annoying tho especially the one that sounds like a static continuous sound..
@davydj No we're not stupid. We just know the difference between the periodical cicada (genus Magicicada), which have synchronous emergences and thus appear in mass only once every 13 or 17 years; and the annual cicadas (genus Tibicen, Neocicada, and Diceroprocta) which have staggered emergences and thus some appear every year. The Magicicada appear in huge numbers all at once over a period of about 4 weeks whereas the annuals appear in small numbers over a period of several summers.
Yes he will these hatch every 13 yrs & there is another brood that hatches every 17 yrs...What you see is annual Cicadas that come out every yr after spending 2-3 yrs under ground
I agree w/ u @ k I mber I'm so fascinated how this litttle boy is so fasincated by Cicadas and other insects usuallly little kids at his age watch tv and do nothing but this kid actually loved just to see bugs nature I also see a great future in the little boy to :)
Cicada arent annoying at all. They are just part of the seasons that make this world great and enjoyable
They are the devil's insect
deadly super loud and earrape beeping doesn't mind me, neither do cicadas
For the most part you are correct. However, during one year in which the periodical cicadas were out, I had a bag of "cassini" (the smaller ones that are completely black on the underside, and usually prefer ash trees) I brought into our lab, and the manager of the lab wanted me to take them out because the shrill sound bothered him so much--this species DOES sound somewhat like someone shaking a bag full of marbles. The other species, such as the larger "decims" that have much orange underneath the abdomen, make a "weeeeee-oh" sound. The remaining "decula" species, which are small with thin orange bands underneath, make a sound like someone whistling in and out, or squeezing a rubber toy making this sound.
@@aldofhister6859 ...or, as some have said, the devil's parrots.
One time one flew on my leg and it was actually kinda cute
me: gets scared by every kind of bugs even a butterfly
this kid: this sht is fascinating
Lol, that's weird cuz I've heard them every summer for the past 8 years
I'm in Louisiana, and we have them every year in late summer. I don't know where this "every 13 years" thing comes from...unless it's some different kind of cicada.
Yeah same here wth... Texas Btw
the green "Annual" ones come out every year, the black & orange ones are the "Periodical" 13 and 17 year ones shown in the video
+Aeosura ok cool.. thanks for the info!
well, because every year there are new cicadas emerging on their 10 or 13th year, so it's a separate generation of cicadas so to speak. That's why you hear them every year.
They dont bite or sting nor are they poisonous, they are harmless. Practically asking to be picked up.
Shadower1337 I do pick them up.
they do have a needle type thing in the front that they use to dig in the bark of the tree to lay their eggs, when they dig on your finger it hurts.
They don't need any defense. Their defense is swarming. In this stage of their life, all they exist to do is mate. They do have claws on their feet to hold onto trees, which pokes and kinda hurts a little, but not much.
They're beautiful creatures and nature's ability to survive
Shadower1337 same here
One of my favorite noises of all time. When I hear a cicada, I am instantly taken back to summer evenings in Michigan. I moved out of state last year, and these are one of the things I miss more than anything! I never would have thought I could miss an insect and the noise it makes, but just goes to show you all the tiny things you take for granted, and you only realize you are without them when they are not around anymore.
I love the sound of Cicadas, it just sounds like summer
9 years old 11 years ago huh? This unique kid is 20-21 years old today I’d imagine. I hope that his love for insects and the outdoors is still alive and well today! We need more adults like him. Nature is beautiful and needs to be protected. ❤️
Love cicadas. Very relaxing to sit and hear them.
Wish I was similar to that boy, like a big enthusiast that can just walk along looking and thinking it's way more fun that sitting in front of the computer all day :/
Saraskellington But I'm not THAT enthusiastic. Enthusiasm isn't something you just conjure up from nothing.
Saraskellington None of them, people are just born different. I'm sure I'm really enthusiastic about something, but it's nothing I've come across yet.
my friend's pet python bit him on the face and he got a black and yellow eye. it was the funniest thing ever.
@@SardaukarNo1 some friend you are…
In grade school, I once filled a paper bag with cicadas and let them out in a classroom. It was not a good prank.
I am 50, and I love,and have always looked forward to them coming back!!
lisa love welp I hope you catch a lot of them
Now you are 57
Where I live they come out almost every summer and I absolutely love the sound.
Love that sound. Far, far from annoying! Says "summer" to me. :-)
Try staying on an island with these fuckers in every tree you find
I agree, it's an awesome sound.
Me too!
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one starts and ALL chime in to Join...the south at Dusk...omg!
We have this sound every summer here in Greece, and yes, means 'summer" for everyone. I asked once a Canadian what's the equivalent of summer for them and he replied 'the smell of the cutted grass'. I guess there is an equivalent for everybody.
These bugs come out late summer and reminds me that fall is on it's way. It is the most beautiful sound to me. Also it completely relaxes me and puts me in such a trance. It is a love song.
Cicadas are one of my favorite bugs! I remember when I was a child one year the cicadas were so loud we had to yell to be heard. I've seen actually come out of it's shell.
I find them very peaceful, calming and interesting. One of the many things great about warm weather.
Seen that they were coming back this summer 2020 and was making sure that this was the sound I remember hearing on summer nights.
Somebody take that boy to Disneyland!!!
Hahahaha right?! 😂😂
Yes!
Why?? The natural world is so much more fascinating!
Heaven forbid a child has interest in something that isn’t Disney. I’d be proud of my kid for being so curious.
@@GrubbyPigeon you should really lighten up. It was a joke and a 4 year old joke at that. I have no problems with children enjoying nature.
Don’t turn a light-hearted joke into more than it is.
I’m Canadian living in southern Shikoku, Japan and the cicadas are deafening here!
The boy has a Smile just like Tow Mater in the movie "Cars"
17 year cicada. I was there in 1984 it was unreal in the D.C. area. I was Jim Stewartson's house and his room was around back of the house in an old time area of Takoma Park,Maryland and you had to come out of the dark and walk up towards the road. Along the way to my car I heard this crunching sound. As I walked across the yard the sound was with me every step and my car was parked under the light and that is when I saw them tens of thousands of Cicadas all over the road and all crawling at once. I got a massive case of heebie-jee-bies and then was like "THIS IS INCREDIBLE!". I went back into the house to get Jim and John to show them the same way I found them while being in the middle of a swarming mass. Jim asked, "What is that crunching sound?" is a high voice seeming to know something is wrong then we stopped and he asked, "Why it the ground moving....?" and sort of trailed off. "OH MY GOD!" he yelled and ran back into the house trying not to touch the ground. The new few weeks empty husks lay on all the trees as the Cicadas began to sing in the trees. The sound was a massive din that shook the very city. It was the only sound like a hurricane or great storm that shook the very fabric of the air. It waned and ebbed in cycles and you could hear groups echoing each other for miles in ever direction millions upon millions of cicada flying in the air and on ever branch and leave it seemed covering the entire area with sound. It is one of the most singularly awesome act of nature I have ever seen. #TheEyeofTHOR
I've heard that sound every summer since moving to the foothills. I thought they were rattlesnakes when I first heard it!
Funny, I've been hearing them every summer like my whole life
Entire life
From upstate ny I have heard these every year my
cicadas and grasshoppers! two of my favorite bugs ever... plus dragonflies and ladybugs - they're cool too
I always wanted to know what made this sound that I love so much. I thought it was a bird but know I know it's an insect & I hate insects but this one is the only one I welcome in my world because it represents summer & to me the sound of it is very calming and relaxing. I love it !!
This is really sweet. I know just how Lucas feels. I was about 14 when I was nipped by bug love! I love all insects and bugs, and I have a very special affection for Cicadas. My dog day cicadas are here every summer and I got to watch 3 of them transform yesterday. They are look like little angels in the trees, and I love their songs!
Someone else who loves cicadas :)
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I love the white ghost cicada
when you livebin florida you don't even here them because they are year round 24 7
Yup, just another forest noise. Much like the Red Shouldered Hawk, and the Warblers. And occasionally the squirrels
Thought those were snakes in my grandma's backyard when I was little😂
So truuue!🤣 sounding like rattle snakes 😅
I think cicadas are really cool! I’ve always liked bugs and cicadas and katydid’s are my favorite.
4:10 Woman in red in the middle looks like she is about to shit herself LOL!!!
+extremedrumz made me lol. i would probably be the same way. LIKE THE SOUND NOT THE BUG
extremedrumz haaaahahahaha!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm confused. Between Missouri and Iowa, I've never had a summer without cicadas. And, that would be a cicada, not a locust which looks like a large grasshopper.
Certain cicadas have a longer life cycle
Wait... They only come every 13 years ? I can hear them 7 months/year where I live.
You are hearing the so-called "annual" cicadas, which are other species of cicadas that emerge each year.
Every 13 and 17 years a larger group comes up
I hear them everyday and I live in south Ga big facts
I dig em too , when I was a kid the sound that helped me relax and fall asleep . Cool yes !
Love the sound of summer 😊❗
Sitting on the back porch, summertime, my nephew & I, he's about the age of this boy in the video, he says, "I can barely hear the cicadas over the cicadas...lol!" 😄🐞🐝💕🐜🐛😉
Some of them come out every year
I hear them every summer in PA
Their sounds bring me peace .... I love them!!! The sound they makes ... Helps me calm down after a long day.. When I'm fishing their sound is soooo awesome!!!! I'm a city girl from Philly but moved down south... They sing to me!!😂😂😂
Why so big comment
It's hilarious to watch all the newscasters playing with the cicadas with the exception of the freaked out one in red as she sits in the middle trying desperately to sink into the sofa!! LOL
I love to sit and hear them. So peaceful😀😀
I think cicadas are so cute insect so I love it.
I remember opening my door to see what sound it was and there was like 1000 of them on my door and I ran inside
I would have literally killed myself
LMAO i would pass out
I'd throw up everywhere if one came near me
Then throw up on the cicada.
Lol
Sound of summer vacations when I was young.. love the Sound
every 13 years? I hear these every summer. Nice too hear, not nice to see. But that's just me...
They do come out every year, but every cycle (7 years, 13 years, etc.) they have a huuge groups of them, way bigger than usual.
Sometimes Cicadas comes up after 17 years
We hear this every year signaling the start of the rainy season...
No. It's a little freaky if they grasp on to your finger if you're not use to it, but they do not hurt you at all.
They are fascinating. And darn cute. And I like there sounds. I've had a lot of experiences this summer 2020 especially. I have learned so much from Lucas, thank you. It is so awesome when I see the youth enjoying these things and nature. Keep it up. Even my husband will not hold them. I have another one sitting on me and walking around for about an hour now. Seems maybe he is older. He does not seem to want to leave💙 I don't even think I can go to sleep because this guy came slamming into me a bit ago. We have a lot of ants here and they are pretty busy workers. I know they will attack. I loved this video. Thank you for sharing and your wonderful spirit. Keep up the great work
Another cicada website states that scientists name each "brood" numerically. They can tell you which brood will appear this summer, and which brood for next summer, and so on. The larvae appear after 17 years underground and shed their exoskeleton that we find everywhere. Then their wings fill with water and they plump up to full adult size, and start to produce that loud mating call. Next summer has a different "brood" name/number. Very interesting insects!
I can hold spider, ants, most beetles, house flies (rare to hold them), and I have a connection with ant I ever hold bugs, lightning bugs, worms, and caterpillars...but I'm afraid of cicadas and moths...lmao
I'm not super afraid of moths, I don't care if they are around but they are creaking and one got into my room, I screamed....
I love the cicada sound
They need to stay underground. I’m scared of all bugs but this is terrifying! I like the noise they make though!
Cicadas don't harm people
Justin Crawford I don’t care if any bugs harms people or not. Bugs are scary to me.
I have noticed in the last few years in Wythe County Va there has been a decrease. Its July 31 and no jar flies. We call the yearly ones jar flies. Its strange they use to sing every year.
Kudos for the lady in blue! she's definately scared but she does try!
their sound is right out of a science fiction horror movie.
They say the sound of summer. Since I was a kid and now I would say the sounds always start in the late summer. The sounds would start in August in the late summer evenings. We always call them katydids. I am from Western Pa. living now in Eastern Pa.
I love that sound
I love them
4:10 the lady in red is absolutely disgusted by these locusts lol
MBPC21 😂😂 her face 😂😂
The cicadas that are due to arrive this year along the East Coast are 17-year cicadas from a different species.
To everyone posting here about hearing these every summer...That's right you do the are called annual Cicadas...These are periodical Cicadas that hatch every 13 & 17 yrs depending on where you live..I've never seen this before & always wanted to ... It's one of natures magnificent occurrences ..I used to catch 10 Cicadas a day when I was a kid...Kudos to this kid for doing this & not being sucked in by the video game craze
I never new about these bugs until TODAY!
"Lucas Phillips: Bug enthusiast", I dont know why but I find this description SO funny.
i love this kid!
I love their song
They make my skin crawl
says 13 yrs but i heard 17 years...i LOVE the NOISE it the South at Dusk!
Funny they come every summer :] every year.......
Each cicada may have a 13 year cycle, but they are in KC every year from about late July through most of August.
When I heard them start their noise every evening in the summer, I knew school was starting soon.
It's refreshing to know that the young boy is more fascinated with nature than he is with Disneyworld.
well this is what lucky mean, great passion.
i also remember seeing them 13 years ago as well! theres nothing wring with liking bugs, as kids we all had something weird we likes
He was so cute aw
That is so cute!
Its pretty normal n common here during the summer seasons..Some can be quiet annoying tho especially the one that sounds like a static continuous sound..
I don’t dislike em… I’m just unnerved by em.
I grew up with these didn't know where they were. LOL!
I used to think those were crickets
The more you know.
Amazing creatures. That they only come out on prime numbers
I use to think that cicadas were locusts for many years.
We still call them locusts in Louisiana. And we get these things every year, not just every 13 years like they say in the video!
shreve99
They are actually suppose to come out every 7 years. IDK.
I always liked cicadas!
Cicadas sound great in the evening
I saw one and it freaked me out!
that reporter is absolutely beautiful...
ALWAYS wondered what these noises were
2:33 "Listening for his own love song" leeel. I came here because I typed in bugs that sound like power lines.
AMAZING
I never heard this....I grew up in California....if I heard his ...it would drive me crazy ....
I always thought it was the sun making that noise
Sarcastic Baby Mountain Goat 😂😂😂😂😂
My favorite noise I love cicadas
@davydj No we're not stupid. We just know the difference between the periodical cicada (genus Magicicada), which have synchronous emergences and thus appear in mass only once every 13 or 17 years; and the annual cicadas (genus Tibicen, Neocicada, and Diceroprocta) which have staggered emergences and thus some appear every year. The Magicicada appear in huge numbers all at once over a period of about 4 weeks whereas the annuals appear in small numbers over a period of several summers.
Yes he will these hatch every 13 yrs & there is another brood that hatches every 17 yrs...What you see is annual Cicadas that come out every yr after spending 2-3 yrs under ground
I hear them every summer
seems like they came out every year in Santa Cruz mountains where I lived.
I agree w/ u @ k I mber I'm so fascinated how this litttle boy is so fasincated by Cicadas and other insects usuallly little kids at his age watch tv and do nothing but this kid actually loved just to see bugs nature I also see a great future in the little boy to :)
I haven't seen any insect so big as those. I live in North.
I heard some who sound like electric fans The boy did the sound for few seconds.I love them.They fly funny.Its cute.I call them a gee bee bug.
To me it is the beautiful sound of the South