Trillions of cicadas are about to emerge after 17 years underground in United States

Carp are considered to be bottom feeders and for the most part they are, but they will eat anything they can catch and swallow including insects and minnows in my own persona experience I have caught them on topwater lures a few times, but I suspect they were spawning and just trying to kill the lure or drive it off..

When there is a big shad die off they gorge on them too. They also eat dead or dying crayfish. Most of what they eat is plant material, they are opportunistic feeders

It is my belief that the cat is deriving some type of pleasure from holding the cicada live in it's mouth as it buzzes. The one thing I noticed is they take a long time to kill one, sometimes over an hour..

because the brood is the largest of the hatches, some hatch at different intervals but none are as large as this one.

How does that differ from golden worm?

I could SWEAR this event happened when my 15 year old daughter was 2.

I know that we were aware of it being a thing, and that the place was covered with cicadas, and that she was toddling around and I was freaked out by her trying to pick up dead ones on the ground.

I must be wrong.

Anyway ... hallelujah!

There's nothing better to remind us where we are than natures big cycles. This is a good length cycle for remembering our place. Beautiful.

Excellent map. Answers a lot of questions.

Doesn't this happen every couple years? It's always a new brood from a different group of hatch offs but there's cicada hatch offs every few years and for some reason everyone acts like it's unique.

Cats are cute but they're sadistic little bastards

You should experience Mormon crickets. Then you won’t complain.

Last Edited by Adam Henry on 05/02/2021 03:55 PM

This is a bug eating thread?

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the meem is coming true

Oh c’mon! lol

And you can keep your bugs too! Borders closed lol

BS

Put them on a spit and roast them. They are big, dumb flying food. They are a boon. Take advantage.

Do you have to peel them? What about the guts?

Interesting fact... Cicada emergence cycles are Fibonacci sequence ratios.

Great. Just great. I won't know if it's my tinnitus or the damned insects.

That's like the plot to the Jeepers Creepers movies. Every 17 years it gets to feed.

i can hear marvin gaye now.

Well, in that case, I suppose if you are a coughing your lungs up and pissing kidney stones, all without being able to achieve a boner and experiencing a condition which makes you believe your ticker is about to give up, feeling like you couldn't crush a grape, walking as if you have imbibed a full bottle of scotch, finding it extremely difficult to hear the trouble and strife bollocking you because of the ringing in your ears and all this whilst becoming so thin, that you only have one stripe on your pyjamas, then Cordyceps militaris and it's uses, is a blessing in disguise.

We have these in abundance every year! My daughter likes collecting the sheded shells. Gross! The newly emerged ones are actually pretty cute though. It’s alway noisy and they are everywhere! This article is more fear mongering bs.

Free chicken food. Yum for the girls.

Yes indeed. I grew up just south of Pittsburgh. Our summers were spent gathering locust shells from the trees and listening to their wonderful “ song” every night. Some summers gave us lots of skeletons and lots of noise. Looks like this one will be a noisy one. Whoever is trying to freak everyone out about this is foolish and totally ignorant of this phenomenon. Relax. They are harmless and wonderful.

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I saw a woman boing the creepy looking insects & she said it smelled bad. Sorry.... “Bill Gates-Hates Everybody” can eat all 17 Trillion the rest of his pathetic life.

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Every state is so very different... Childhood memories etc. ~~ The smell of Orange Blossoms & Ocean Air. ~~ Insects were never much of a problem. There were sand crabs on the shore while making sand castles... Good memories.

I was here for it 17 yrs ago in Maryland and will be here for it this year. Im going to go fishing this time though!

Ah yes, and it was fun to stealthily stick the exoskeleton on someones shirt or pants and then point while screaming "WHAT'S THAT!?"

I did it to my mom one time and she lost her mind. I still feel bad. Lol

I am glad to know that! Thank you!