what the 17 year cicada sounds like INDIVIDUALLY and as a group
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- Опубликовано: 15 июн 2019
- Every 17 years these alien like insects crawl out of the ground and invade the earth. If you walk outside you can barely hear yourself think. I’ve always heard them as a group but I never was able to hear what they sound like individually. In the video I go through some of the facts about these bugs and give you a little real life experience.
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I have a lot in common with these bugs. I sleep for nearly two decades then wakeup to scream.
I wanna be more like the regular summer cicadas. Sit in the trees and make cool ambient music every summer. That's the life.
This is a rare occasion where I genuinely laugh at a comment
🤣😂🤣😂
That's our entire generation
Vampire 🦇
I like the way this guy narrates. He sounds so _done_ with these bugs. "Here come the cicadas... _[siiigghh]_ ...frickin' cicadas..."
Literally me rn 😭
😂🎯
Guess you don't live around 'em, huh?
he sounds like an old crazy hermit living out in the pines
👉 We had them here this year, for 4 weeks from late May through late June. Then they were all dead and gone within just a few days. I watched them from the very 1st night they started emerging til the day they disappeared. They were flying around everywhere, landing everywhere, and although you could always hear them when you walked outside, they aren't "deafeningly loud" like some people claim. I actually kinda miss seeing them already.
The annual cicadas have been out since about mid August, and they are technically louder, but since there aren't swarms of them, they don't make as much noise, and they sound different.
I accidentally stepped on one once. I didn't crush it bc it buzzed SO LOUD that it vibrated through my shoe and scared the pants off me. It was terrible.
LMAO damn near that same thing happened to me in 2004, except I almost stepped on it and didn't because it FRICKING SCREAMED AT ME. I was walking down my driveway and about to put my foot down and I heard a loud shrill high-pitched scolding yell underfoot. I pull my foot back and there it is right where I was about to step. It saved itself from being stepped on by SCREAMING AT ME. Still the most impressive display of raw survival instinct by a dumb insect I have ever seen in my life.
@@owenwexler7214 😂😂😂😂 my heart was racing just reading that bc I know JUST how alarming that was! Clearly there needs to be some sort of cicada survivors support group out there 😂
Imagine how it must’ve been for the bug, “he got serial crushed by some uge’ fwiggin guy”
Chicken. They're completely harmless.
@@markrichards6863 I'm well aware. It was the sound and the sensation that was so unsettling.
"Look at that rainbow in the sky. It's bowing the other way. You can still hear those cicadas"
Lmao
So nonchalant about that whole thing. Hilarious
Lol 😆
Hilarious!!! Not even a backwards rainbow will stop these things!!!
BACKWARDS RAINBOW ALL THE WAY
This feels like a documentary about the end of times.
@free_spirit_hooping no, not really lmao
@free_spirit_hooping no, it’s not
What brimstone snakes sound like individually and as a group
P loo
Ok
80-100 decibels. About the noise levels of a low flying airplane.
bro really saw the tiktok
@@prozly2845 we all did
holy crap
Airplane is louder than that. This is basically lawnmower loud.
I certainly almost went insane in the Summer of1988 having to hear these Bugs ! Oh forevermore, not again ! Trillions ? 🤨
One correction: They don't lay their eggs in the ground. They lay them in tree branches. Six to 10 weeks later the eggs hatch and nymphs drop to the ground and burrow below for 17 years.
Like, why?? What’s the point, exactly? They don’t eat anything or add to anything, and they die in 3 days. All for what?? It has to be simply to feed those who are lucky enough to be around when they emerge. They must simply be a food source and nothing more.
@@LaineyTsang They don't die in 3 days, they die in a week or two. Also, given that their entire strategy revolves around prime numbers, it's far more likely it's an adaptation to _avoid_ predators.
@@thewanderingmistnull2451 Watch this video about them and you’ll see what I’m referring to about being a food source: ruclips.net/video/EWr8fzUz-Yw/видео.html
@@LaineyTsangit's as though old people emerged to sing in their final days
@@LaineyTsangthat's not how evolution works
Ok, can we just talk about how terrifying these things sound, for a minute? I like the sounds the annual cicadas make, it's pretty soothing, actually. But I agree, these things look and sound like terrifying, angry aliens. 😳
the annual ones are annoying as hell too
@@darkdragonsoul99 but then they Are fricking Adorable
I love all cicadas and their sounds!
🤣🤣🤣👽
Nothing terrifying about cicadas, especially not their sound! I love and miss these beautiful "true bugs."
alright so im not leaving my house this year
At all
fr 😭
Fr I thought I was the only one scared of these bitches
Same
Same
When I was a child in the 1950's the bugs would get on our front door screen and scream their heads off -it was so loud we could hardly hear the TV.
are you alive?
They had tvs that long ago?
@@christiancullip4561 Yes. They were invented in the 20s and rose in popularity during the 50s. By 1955 half of the homes in the US had televisions.
@@matthewgerman1618 damn don’t know your math 🤦🏾♂️
@@thatsacoolusernamebih1491 if she were a child in the 1950's that means she would be mid 70s since she was probably born in the 40s. mid 70s is old and i'm wondering if she's alive
They make my life seem so short and fleeting. I remember them as a 15 year old high school kid, then a 32 year old in my prime, now a 49 year old with dropping testosterone levels😅, and the next time I’ll be 66...just like that😒
Yeah. I am 64, this is my fourth encounter with Brood X, and I am wondering if I will meet them again.
@@marysueeasteregg you will!😊
I know what you mean! In 2004 I remember thinking of how old I'd be for the next one, and boom, here we are. It reminds me of the passage of time. Bigtime.
I'm more worried about making it to the next Haley's Comet. They hyped it up so hard in middle school and I don't even remember seeing a darn thing.
Yeah, you'll see them 4 or 5 times in your lifespan.
Well, looks like I’m going to be in quarantine for a whole different reason this summer. 🤷♀️
They are harmless and delicious...taste like shrimp.
I’m so scared to go outside they jumpscare me 😭😭😭
They actually sound quite hypnotic and pleasant.
I love the sound that these little guys make!! I’m excited for their return, and am so happy that my children get to experience such an amazing natural Phenomenon.
Agree! They really stand out. Will miss them
I wish i was half as happy as you, when these guys come out im not leaving my house at all
I wanted to comment this too. Love the sound they make as a whole. Like the video says “in concert”.
I enjoy the cicadas. The regular cicadas are the happy sound of summer. The 17 year cicadas are a symphony of nature. They don't damage the environment at all and provide abundant food for birds.
Yes, agree. They are so entertaining, too, and I will be sad when they go.
Some are doing a lot of damage to my tree branches!!
@@harleyashwood7965 I'm still saddened by their departure a month later. I love and miss these wonderful cicadas.
don't they not even eat or bite while they come out
@@Laeshenthey eat a bit from trees, not much tho
Who else is watching this to try and prepare LOL im so scared
no same i hate bugs ESPECIALLY flying ones. i'm prepared to not go outside
Lol. No big deal. Just annoying really. Guard your potato salad so they don't get in it lol. The good thing is they don't eat so they don't actively seek food.
you are not prepared.....
@free_spirit_hooping I was in kindergarten! The only thing I remember is being terrified the wholee time
@@fundragon298 I was 4 years old when these bugs came out of the ground back in 04. I actually still have a shedded skin of one in my room hanging on a frame. It’s been there ever since and this year I plan on grabbing another one to add to my collection.
Their mating call sounds so cool
Sounds like a scream that you would probably hear in the woods at night.
It sounds different in person. Personally I love it so much. Reminds me of when I was a kid
My house is surrounded by trees and the last time they came I was almost deaf by the time they finally left, it us utterly amazing how loud they are.
They're happening right now in DC-Virginia-Maryland area like CRAZY....MAN!!!
I know bro!!! Montgomery county MD is insane I can't take a step outside without stepping on one!
Bro it’s so loud too
Kentucky as well.
This video is great just sooo ahead of its time
Yup 17 years ahead
Lol
Depends on where you live.
not anymore
The filmer is prob in WVa, and that is prob cicada brood 9 of 2020.
Love the sound of cicadas . Wish these little guys luck in making the next generation:)
I love the sound too.
man, i start going back to my high school in april, right in the middle of all of this,, it's gonna be hell walking home in the afternoons
Same, I start April 6th and walking to school is going to be scary😂
Bruh same
What they're doing when waving their legs around before flying is they're checking the wind - if the wind is too strong they won't take off.
That Cicada went straight for the chump change
Classic
I love to hear them
Gutted we don't have these fascinating little creatures in Ireland. They are amazing
Hopefully you have some other amazing species to be in awe with
13-17 years, depending on the brood.
I’m visiting Maryland and for the first day of me being here I thought there was a huge alarm going off 😂 these things are everywhere up here
We have them every year, every spring. They make a lot of noise but is a great experience to see them. They live short time. (El Salvador)
Theyre a different brood
The comments on this video are so good. Such a fun collection of people and comments
We had the 13 year cicadas in our area in 2011. Pretty much identical in appearance and song. It was deafening and they appeared overnight.
This video is too good and needs more views
i love it. 17 years ago they were here and will be back again in a couple months! symbolic to me of my transformation into adulthood from a child last time they were here.
I'm with you. I live in the city, will have to take a nice ride out to the country to hear the cicadas when the brood hatches.
@@markrichards6863 oh I am so excited for this broad to come. I'm right in the midwet here it's gonna explode. Last time they came I was a kid and put them in my mouh not sure why but I felt them
@@mclovin9151 Nature is amazing. Cicadas are harmless. How does something that small make such a loud noise.
I was a cub scout the last time brood x came out at camp garrison in Pennsburg PA. These bugs ACTUALLY helped me get over my fear of insects because they can't hurt me.
I’m 15 and this will be my first one. I was born a year after they came out. I’m excited!
Dude I just realized the last brood X happened before RUclips was even existent.
So if they happen 17 years why they still here 2021 vid from 2019 🤔
Here in Texas, we have a different breed of cicadas. Ours are green, large, and very loud, too... but they make a different sounding noise. They also come up out of the ground EVERY year. We experience this noise every year, but I know they live 17 years underground before they come up. To say they come up every 17 years is comparable to saying babies are born every 9 months.
There are different broods that come up at different times. Some come up in 17 year cycles, some in 7 year cycles, some come up every year. It just depends.
Yeah this brood has been underground for 17 years. As in, you have not seen this species in 17 years. They literally are one big multimillion-person family that live a life cycle in orchestra. Every one of them. They all stay together and live together in unison underground and come up en masse once every 17 years.
The green ones you mentioned are yearly cicadas and nothing at all like this.
The reason it’s so insane and essentially media-worthy is because it is actually literally the one time these cicadas come out en masse together.
I do understand the logic behind your point and the way you’re thinking about it, but your understanding of them isn’t quite correct and that’s not how these guys work.
its beautiful they makin music u just gotta learn to listen
They are everywhere! They go all day long and all night long. But you know I actually enjoy them. When they were here in 2004, I was in the city and it was ramped. After the initial shock of one landing on you you immediately know that they cannot hurt you. So I picked them up and put them on the wall. Three years later we’re still finding wings. This will be the last time that I see my favorite Brood X. I wish they were here every summer.
It is LOUD! EXPERIENCING IT RIGHT NOW! Shepherdstown West Viginia. May 23rd, 2021
1:11 If one of those things ends up in my car I’m throwing the whole vehicle away and buying a new one
Don't get the guys too excited around here. (They love high maintenance women)
stop the cicada hate, we need to set up preserves for them because the constant development is destroying all their home range
We get green cicada every Summer. I love the sound.
The cicadas do play their part in nature. They prune the trees so the trees grow back twice as bushy, with a high yield of acorns and seeds. This provides more food for the wildlife and more geenery sends more oxygen into the atmosphere. And of course, more trees will grow.
I'm enjoying my second go-around with Brood X. They're hilarious. They are clumsy fliers, bumble harmlessly into everything, they harm almost nothing, ugly as sin. Their concert is a celebration of summer.
My front porch roof is 10x30 feet and flat. I let my cats hang out on it. They love eating those things. I should save a lot on cat food this summer.
That sound is the best white noise, great frequency.
Have you ate a cicada? Check the video to see if I did👇🏽
ruclips.net/video/OfWx3C1Qm1g/видео.html
I am listening to it now, I actually searched this in RUclips so THANK YOU for the post. I assumed that was what the noise I was hearing was. 🙏
They lay their eggs in the small limbs of trees and then the nymphs fall to the ground and burrow in. They also don't scream all night. They start up in the morning and taper off after dark
Very true. They get quieter after dark.
I love the sound of the Decatur bug
i was hearing a strange noise earlier this morning thinking it was some alarm that went off but turned out its cicadas
Those are digital transmissions. We gotta try to decode that
Funny! I had a thought one time that they came to check up on us!
"So why are we here?"
"Patience. In 17 years, we will climb out of this dirt."
"17 years?? Whatever comes after this better be worth it!"
"We can fly around and make cool noises!"
"Oh neat! And then what?"
"Then we meet some ladies, lay some eggs, and then die."
"Oh...well that all comes way later, right?"
"Nah, man, we only live for like three days unless a bird eats you first."
"...This sucks."
"I know."
They actually live really long for an insect, though. Sure, the final part is short, but those 17 years under ground are impressive.
@@amaureaLua Yes, absolutely! I also wonder if it is better down there just chilling, instead of dealing with the competive nature of the mating game up here...
The lay their eggs in small tree branches, not the ground. This causes some of the small branches to lose their leaves or they just turn brown. The nymphs hatch about 2 weeks later, fall to the ground from the tree branches and burrow under the tree, and begin to grow by sucking on tree sap from the roots of the trees.
Beautiful! Enjoy these unique creatures, they’re harmless and are only here for a short time.
Sounds like heaven! I used to love collecting the shells and just listening to them when I was a kid.
You know it’s hot outside when you hear them.
Today a Cicada sat up and sang a glissando from E down to A. It was lyrically sweet, not the drone vibe of the collective.
That very sound is returning this year. But it's so weird they take SO LONG to come back. But yes, they are indeed loud.
This sound is absolute misery for people with neurological disorders. The sound triggers seizures and can put folks into constant sensory overload.
Cicadas are cool and all but this video made me extra grateful I live in Western Washington. I get sensory overload and this sounds like a nightmare.
The droning sound actually comforts me. It's like a natural noisemaker.
@@grylltheonion your dads a natural noise maker if you know what I'm sayin
@@grylltheonion we people who like the cicadas can't catch a break!
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I was 14 the last time these came around. I was outside almost all the time at that age, I dont remember them.
A) Were you in that area they reside in? They are only in parts of the country. B) Did your family use round-up and bug killer and killed them? C) Did you have a lot of ear wax clogging your ears?
@@Skitdora2010 lol. I do have mixed hearing loss, but yes, I live in Michigan. I spend most of my summer at a man made pond that was only ever treated for mosquitoes with a fogger. The man made pond was built on an old landfill, so its possible they couldn't really burrow into the ground very well other than in the wooded areas. I vaugly remember hearing them when I was younger, but nothing too memorable.
They lay eggs in fine outer tree branches. About six weeks later they hatch and fall to the ground and start burrowing
Last time we had these, there was literally a carpet of shells on one part of our yard. If you walked near there, the ground crunched.
they're apparently coming to ny this year, ready for my eardrums to die
I'm kinda sad I live in England and I won't get the chance to hear this phenomenon :(
I am surprised we still have them, many are disappearing as they build more and more tearing down the local woods
This is like a casually done documentary that's surprisingly informative.
I got up to use the bathroom one morning and I heard both the first sound and the second sound. It was a Saturday at 6AM. I just stood there and listened. It was incredible.
I love nature. I think the cicadas are an amazing wonder of the world.
When me and my sister were young and a neighbor friend. We started a little fire and cooked a couple of cicadas. They were pretty good.
@@barbarahofmann2390 how’d they taste? Btw I love Cicadas too. I’ve never heard a brood X one, but I don’t think I’ll have a problem with them.
I’m keeping one as a pet its name is fisher and he’s adorable he has a severely injured wing and I have a terrarium outside for him once he gets better I’ll release him until then he’ll be my little friend he crawled right into my hands and refused to leave even when I put him down he crawled back up lol
This must have been Brood VIII, which is a small brood. Brood X is emerging now.... which means if you drive south east, maybe a couple hours, it's happening all over again.
23 Broods of periodical Cicadas in the US, of which 3 are 13 year cycles.
The 13 year ones sound like this as well. Currently the XIX 13 year brood is out in Durham, NC, same sound.
I'm glad this video exists because we've had this Happening here in Alabama for 5 days now and I genuinely didn't know what it was.
Yep. That sound is around me all day. It’s actually soothing to me
Insects are widely misunderstood and disliked by a vast majority of the human race and it’s sad. They’re amazing and wonderful living beings.
The rainbow in the clouds was pretty cool too
That's not a rainbow, that's a circumhorizontal arc.
me and my sister were wondering what that sound was !! thats so cool
This guy should do a daily news broadcast on a major news outlet. Major hurricane, no problem. Asteroid coming, not a problem, they are always coming. Food shortage, oh well, we'll get through it. Declaration of war ... not again. So calming.
I think it's what they sound like "In concert," not "in a concert."
😅
We just had them hatch and for the last two days, I noticed a strange hum I've never heard before. I had to look it up and found this video. They're now part of my favorite sounds, just like all of the other cicadas. Seriously, cicadas are my favorite insects.
Simple, quick, perfect. Ty for this good sir. Very helpful
They're so cute! I love cicadas! I can't wait to meet this brood again! I was 11 last time brood x came out!
Love their sound
I live in western Pennsylvania. Brood VIII came out in 2019 and it was hell. I was helping build a new toolshed for my grandparents and I had to use a reciprocating saw. I had to dress up like I was going to play paintball because these bugs are stupid. They can mistake the sound of power tools for a mating call and you get bombarded. Not a great time.
Maybe stop the home improvement project for a day or two and let nature takes its course. You brought the agony on yourself. Hope the shed was worth it.
Love the big chunky screamers. Can't wait for a yard full of "AAAAAAAA-oo"
Ahahahha. Now I know how to type it! Thanks! Hehe
I thought it was "scree-eeh!" Well, I am hard of hearing from birth. So I misheard the "words" in the sound. But either way, I enjoy it.
The Chicago and Northern Illinois area has the largest emergence concentration of 17 year periodic cicadas (Marlatt's XIII brood) in the US. The cicadas from this brood are typically black in color but still have the red compound eyes.
" reporting over the years by entomologists Monte Lloyd and Henry Dybas at the Field Museum in Chicago. During the 1956 emergence, they counted an average of 311 nymphal emergence holes per square yard of ground in a forested floodplain near Chicago. This translates to 1½ million cicadas per acre. In upland sites, they recorded 27 emergence holes per square yard, translating to about 133,000 per acre. This number is more typical of emergence numbers but is still a tremendous number of insects. For comparison, a city block contains about 3½ acres. When the cicadas start dying and dropping from the trees later in the spring, there are large numbers on the ground, and the odor from their rotting bodies is noticeable. In 1990, there were reports from people in Chicago having to use snow shovels to clear their sidewalks of the dead cicadas."
Thanks for the video. An amazing natural phenomenon.
I haven't seen any, yet, but I can sure hear them in the wooded areas around my neighborhood. The sound is constant
“What’s it even doing” 😂
They don't lay their eggs in the ground. They lay their eggs in small tree limbs. The eggs hatch, and the nymphs drop onto the ground, burrow down, and start the cycle all over again.
And that wasn't a rainbow, that was a sun halo.
My jaw DROPPED.
I LIVE IN MARYLAND, PLEASE PRAY FOR ME AND MY FAMILY
Wow. Been hearing this sound for a couple days
For all this time I thought my computer was making those noises
😂
I remember those from the mid to late 80s. Great bass bait. Also I was told that if you put the empty shells in a zip lock bag you're supposed to be able to pick that bag containing the shells up with a magnet 🤔
2024 these 17 year and the 13 year are out right now and the sound is disorienting. The sound of the 13 year is much harsher than these. The 17 year sound more like an alarm going off. And the 13 year have a really harsh buzzing sound. They calm down as dusk approaches, and give you some peace in the early hours. For now I'm done with midday walks.
They are so beautiful!!💜🌈💜 I adore them and their lovely song
No
@@Brian-jd4oc I'm sorry if you aren't a fan but they won't hurt you my friend🌞
I’m ok with that sound but where I live they just screech and sometimes fly at people so
@@wowlol5302 cicada wings are heavy, that combined with the wide spacing of the eyes probably accounts for flying into folks randomly
@@GGiblet Oh makes sense
CICADAS ARE AMAZING, AND I LOVE THEIR SOUNDS AND I WILL DIE ON THAT HILL
Great video! Thank you for sharing!!
I have a huge Phobia of bugs and that thumbnail-
You probably won't see them much unless you're outdoors a lot or live in a wooded area. I'm looking forward to it! Where we lived 17 years ago, we didn't see or hear many.
Why would you click it if you're afraid?
@@MiraChan I don’t even know
This guy’s vocal cadence is really weird. It’s like he’s an alien pretending to be able to speak.