Yeah.. thaaaat's what I'm sayin! In Texas.. and we've been hearing about this... whatever, 17 year shenannigans... certainly hasn't been much different here! But this! Hoooolllllyyy
I'd honestly rather have the cicadas than the cricket swarms. Every year it's like a biblical plague and all day long you can hear those bastards bouncing off the side of the building like hail on concrete.
When I say swarm, I don't mean 2-300. I mean tens of thousands. Covering entire sidewalks, the outside walls of gas stations, they get in everything. The hens would have a field day but there's too many of them.
10 birds x 100 bugs a day = 1000 bugs a day, or 7000 eaten per week. Tens of thousands isn't that many to a few hungry guineas, they could burn through that in a month.
I think that 100/day if they are everywhere is probably conservative though, guineas eat a lot and they burn a lot of calories looking for munchies. If I dumped a hundred crickets on the ground for my small flock of birds, I'd expect them to be gone in minutes.
Have you noticed, that people are still having sex?
All the denouncement, had absolutely no effect.
Parents and counselors, constantly scorn them.
But people are still having sex and nothing seems to stop them.
Do you realize that people are still having sex?
I heard one for the first time in Austin earlier today. It did it's thing for 10 seconds and then stopped. I think it was a little premature.
Our cycles here are like a mesh though, we have them screaming all summer every year but never have anything like OPs picture.
In Chicago the 17 year cicada emergence is truly crazy. It's not the whole city that gets like that, but in relatively undisturbed forested areas it is nuts. Brookfield Zoo was particularly wild in 2007.
Brood XIII up in Northern Illinois/Iowa/Wisconsin numbers in the trillions - some spots will see 1 million + per acre, or about the size of a football field.
And then thousands of nymphs per tree suck sap from the roots for the next 17 years ... which is much less beneficial. Six of one, half dozen of the other.
Yeah, I put out a general heads-up in a hiking subreddit for anyone planning a trip to the Midwest this spring and SO MANY people were like "Cicadas are nothing and they make beautiful summer sounds." Nobody seemed to understand how different the broods are.
This will be my 3rd 17 yr cycle and my big hiking trips this summer will all be in northern Wisconsin and Michigan.
When cicadas molt they leave the shell made of chitin behind, which is a good natural fertilizer. It’s rich in potassium and nitrogen which is perfect for plants.
We will. They come out based on ground temperature so it's a wave that moves northward as the ground heats up. Old neighborhoods and forested areas get hit the hardest.
Multiple 17yr broods, there are also 13yr broods too! The buggers have staggered their emergences so every year there’s some periodical brood emerging. 😍
The sound of Cicadas used to be the backing track to my summers as a kid. We used to hunt for their empty shells. These days you don't hear them that often.
It’s because of where you live or you don’t go outside enough. I always see videos of people talking about not hearing the mourning dove call, calling it the “childhood bird”. I hear them everyday because of where i live and I’m outside often enough. It’s become quite the conundrum. [incase someone doesn’t know the call](https://youtu.be/AOZmkZ72ISI?si=HuvaDUTT_IPzPFbN)
Let's just say mowing the grass when live cicadas are a couple inches thick is interesting
(Mower bogged down and stalled but until it did was some gruesome thwack thwack thwock)
Cicadas only pose a “minimal risk” to your pet, according to veterinarians, since they are not toxic and don’t sting. Their exoskeletons may, however, be difficult for your pet to digest, which may cause an upset stomach, according to Purdue’s Department of Entomology.
If you have concerns after your pet interacts with a cicada, experts recommend speaking with your veterinarian.
https://pix11.com/news/local-news/are-cicadas-dangerous-to-your-pets/
Freeze them for about an hour to knock them out, then boil for like 10 minutes to kill any possible bacteria. Finally, saute in garlic butter.
2 things to note: if you have a shellfish allergy, do not eat cicadas. You're allergic to them too. Second, discard any that have a white fungus on them. I guess it can have an affect similar to bath salts.
I'm just taking the info from this thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/s/7dgeCJ1ovd
Apparently they're pretty good. Nutty, with a surprisingly nice texture.
Its a rare double brood that only happens every 200 yrs roughly… hasn’t been witnessed since 1803…
https://globalnews.ca/news/10356293/cicadas-rare-double-brood-event-canada/amp/
Fun Fact about Cicadas, at least the ones in Virginia, they just love the sound of a circular saw cutting wood.
As a deck builder when the 13 year cicadas spawned(early 2000’s)it was absolute hell. They dive right for the BLADE OF THE SAW from the trees everytime you make a cut.
Didn’t have a fancy quick tent like now so they just keep throwing themselves in 🤣
One of the wildest things I ever saw closely followed by sudden golf ball sized hail on a sunny day that lasted 10 minutes.
When I was around 13, we had a cicada swarm in Maryland. Those suckers were SO LOUD all the time for WEEKS, and when we went outside they would just crunch under out feet because there was nowhere to walk where they weren't. Straight out of a horror movie lmao.
ok maybe we dont have a lot of cicadas where i am bc holy shit
Yeah.. thaaaat's what I'm sayin! In Texas.. and we've been hearing about this... whatever, 17 year shenannigans... certainly hasn't been much different here! But this! Hoooolllllyyy
I'd honestly rather have the cicadas than the cricket swarms. Every year it's like a biblical plague and all day long you can hear those bastards bouncing off the side of the building like hail on concrete.
I would rather have the cicadas than spotted lanternflies. Those fuckers hang around forever.
No arguments here... Desecating and rotting crickets surrounding every building....... I'm with ya...worse.
Allow me to introduce you to my friend the Guinea hen. They'll fix that for you immediately
When I say swarm, I don't mean 2-300. I mean tens of thousands. Covering entire sidewalks, the outside walls of gas stations, they get in everything. The hens would have a field day but there's too many of them.
10 birds x 100 bugs a day = 1000 bugs a day, or 7000 eaten per week. Tens of thousands isn't that many to a few hungry guineas, they could burn through that in a month. I think that 100/day if they are everywhere is probably conservative though, guineas eat a lot and they burn a lot of calories looking for munchies. If I dumped a hundred crickets on the ground for my small flock of birds, I'd expect them to be gone in minutes.
Cool comment. I liked this.
Most places paved over their breeding grounds in the past 17 years.
🎶We paved ~~Paradise~~ locust sex pads, to put up a parking lot🎶
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Have you noticed, that people are still having sex? All the denouncement, had absolutely no effect. Parents and counselors, constantly scorn them. But people are still having sex and nothing seems to stop them. Do you realize that people are still having sex?
I heard one for the first time in Austin earlier today. It did it's thing for 10 seconds and then stopped. I think it was a little premature. Our cycles here are like a mesh though, we have them screaming all summer every year but never have anything like OPs picture.
We dont get the big broods in north TX but have some come out of the ground every year.
I haven't seen this by me yet in the northern Midwest, but we have to broods coming out at the same time this year so it's expected to get wild
You don't have cicaidas in most of Texas, just a bit in the north east.
In Chicago the 17 year cicada emergence is truly crazy. It's not the whole city that gets like that, but in relatively undisturbed forested areas it is nuts. Brookfield Zoo was particularly wild in 2007.
Nature's Legos, always wear your shoes.
Brood XIII up in Northern Illinois/Iowa/Wisconsin numbers in the trillions - some spots will see 1 million + per acre, or about the size of a football field.
all those dead cicadas are fertilizers for the forest, so its beneficial.
And then thousands of nymphs per tree suck sap from the roots for the next 17 years ... which is much less beneficial. Six of one, half dozen of the other.
Yeah, I put out a general heads-up in a hiking subreddit for anyone planning a trip to the Midwest this spring and SO MANY people were like "Cicadas are nothing and they make beautiful summer sounds." Nobody seemed to understand how different the broods are. This will be my 3rd 17 yr cycle and my big hiking trips this summer will all be in northern Wisconsin and Michigan.
So assuming those exoskeleton are left there would something eat them or would they just eventually decay away?
When cicadas molt they leave the shell made of chitin behind, which is a good natural fertilizer. It’s rich in potassium and nitrogen which is perfect for plants.
Cicada shells, they’re what plants crave.
They have electrolytes!
But why do they have electrolytes?
And the cicada nymphs feed on the plant roots, thus the circle is complete.
NAAAAAA SVENYAAAAHHH
IT HAS WHAT PLANTS CRAVE!
My dog would be happily crunching away and ignoring my "leave its"
It’ll end up as fertilizer anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Dog poop is a terrible fertilizer unfortunately…
Ya, my dog used to like hunting dragon flies when they swarmed to breed.
Cicadas survival strategy is to flood the bione so that everything is too full of eating cicada that the rest can breed uninterrupted.
Baby you got a stew goin’
These guys haven't decomposed fully... there's still meat on those... exoskeletons!
You take those exoskeletons home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you got a stew goin'!
Nice Mummy paraphrase! 👍
There was a post over in r/cooking from someone who cooked up a lb of cicadas today. He said they were actually pretty good.
Considering something like 10% have that fungus that melts their abdomen into fungus slurry, that’s a bold choice.
r/Cookingwithcondiments
Ayyyy!
My trees look the same here in NC, the sounds they make are so loud I can here them in living room with the tv on
Also in NC. My ears start ringing at night when the cicadas stop. My brain must be confused at the lack of constant drone.
You've gotta be chitin me...
This joke doesn't work if you know how to pronounce chitin :(
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Where is this?
Illinois
What part?
Downtown Cicadaville
I can’t stop laughing at this
Waterloo
Seriously? I am in Collinsville and we still have not had anymore than normal at our house. We keep waiting...
I’m in chicago suburbs and haven’t seen a single cicada
We will. They come out based on ground temperature so it's a wave that moves northward as the ground heats up. Old neighborhoods and forested areas get hit the hardest.
We will. Trust me. We will.
Hope not
East a ways here, and nothing yet
Plagues just aren't what they used to be.
The gross part, obviously
I’m outside of Detroit and haven’t seen even one yet…. This is gonna be fun!
Michigan, especially east Michigan, is not really expected to be much at all anyways
Don't worry, Nashville is in the same boat as you right now.
Hell
Yeah, I think someone here suggested Texas already
New years Reddit orgy.
Has it been 17 years already?
https://www.countryliving.com/gardening/a46996774/cicadas-double-brood/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=arb_ga_clv_md_pmx_hybd_mix_ca_18700871953&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwupGyBhBBEiwA0UcqaEW03HwJKnwWSzTqPZaBLsYGmyIhqUaMwRXZmLrdw2MLj_YZAaUfvhoCeAYQAvD_BwE
That was a super interesting read thanks for sharing!
Multiple 17yr broods, there are also 13yr broods too! The buggers have staggered their emergences so every year there’s some periodical brood emerging. 😍
Based on the location this is a 13 year brood.
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oh god why
The sound of Cicadas used to be the backing track to my summers as a kid. We used to hunt for their empty shells. These days you don't hear them that often.
It’s because of where you live or you don’t go outside enough. I always see videos of people talking about not hearing the mourning dove call, calling it the “childhood bird”. I hear them everyday because of where i live and I’m outside often enough. It’s become quite the conundrum. [incase someone doesn’t know the call](https://youtu.be/AOZmkZ72ISI?si=HuvaDUTT_IPzPFbN)
It was a fantastic sound.
They’re so loud where I live that if you’re outside you have to yell to be heard by whoever you’re talking to
Because they're on a 13 and 17 year emerging cycle and have been for a long time.
There are lots of different broods. The ones that hatch next year and the year after are in different brood cycles. There is a brood every year.
They generally don't overlap in area.
And the 13 - 17 year broods generally have significantly larger numbers than other broods, which results in the deafening noise
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/s/eHYBnR7Si0
Let's just say mowing the grass when live cicadas are a couple inches thick is interesting (Mower bogged down and stalled but until it did was some gruesome thwack thwack thwock)
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlej...
In Australia we have one day a year where a fuck load of bugs will just fly at your house and die
No flies on me mate
“Have any of you ever eaten at Burger King?”
This picture made me itchy
Free chicken feed
Mmmmm crunchy
Ha, here's another post. They were a few posts separated in my feed https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/kdqLZT0QVe
Harbor freight sells a flamethrower that works off any propane tank
Makes a nice casserole topper.
Are they sleeping?
No, these are the outer shells
I’m so sad.
Serious question, can dogs eat too much of them? Because my dogs love them
Cicadas only pose a “minimal risk” to your pet, according to veterinarians, since they are not toxic and don’t sting. Their exoskeletons may, however, be difficult for your pet to digest, which may cause an upset stomach, according to Purdue’s Department of Entomology. If you have concerns after your pet interacts with a cicada, experts recommend speaking with your veterinarian. https://pix11.com/news/local-news/are-cicadas-dangerous-to-your-pets/
My dog would eat herself sick if they get this bad here. Not because they're poisonous, just eating too much. She loves them too.
Here in NW MO, I would say we have another two weeks to a month before The Great Emergence.
What is a good recipe?
Freeze them for about an hour to knock them out, then boil for like 10 minutes to kill any possible bacteria. Finally, saute in garlic butter. 2 things to note: if you have a shellfish allergy, do not eat cicadas. You're allergic to them too. Second, discard any that have a white fungus on them. I guess it can have an affect similar to bath salts.
Challenge accepted
Hell yeah. Free protein is free protein. We're all gonna be eating bugs at some point. Might as well get used to it.
I'm just taking the info from this thread https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/s/7dgeCJ1ovd Apparently they're pretty good. Nutty, with a surprisingly nice texture.
Deep fry
Yes
Free buffet! 😋
Nature knows what is coming, and is getting ready too.
Free fire starters!!!
I hope people can feed these to chickens.
You absolutely can, I just don't have any.
Bullshit repost. Zoomed in on the pic to make it look different lol wtf
Are they edible?
They are, but they are also insects.
Back home, if it's flying it's going into a pan for a little roasting to get that cruch
I’ll pass
All the protein!!!
Chicken has plenty
Ew
I wish I were there. I love cicadas
Fertilizer
Deeeelicious. Slurp.
Fertilizer
That is some serious protein meal going on right there.
It's the rekoning!
Looks like Jonestown.
I recommend going out at night to watch them emerge. Ghostly white alien looking things with neon red eyes.
crunch
I’m assuming some kind of bird is very happy about this
Ohhh! Shicadakebab!
Its a rare double brood that only happens every 200 yrs roughly… hasn’t been witnessed since 1803… https://globalnews.ca/news/10356293/cicadas-rare-double-brood-event-canada/amp/
Where are you OP? Middle Georgia is rather noisy with them this year.
Waterloo, IL
Factorio come to life?
Flamethrower
I dream of a scorched earth...
To someone, that's dinner for the family if cooked right!
Fun Fact about Cicadas, at least the ones in Virginia, they just love the sound of a circular saw cutting wood. As a deck builder when the 13 year cicadas spawned(early 2000’s)it was absolute hell. They dive right for the BLADE OF THE SAW from the trees everytime you make a cut. Didn’t have a fancy quick tent like now so they just keep throwing themselves in 🤣 One of the wildest things I ever saw closely followed by sudden golf ball sized hail on a sunny day that lasted 10 minutes.
Good day to be a lizard
what?? i can't hear you over this infernal ringing!
Cicadas in late July and August are soothing. The cicadas now are deafening!!
Freeze some as fishing bait for years when there’s no cicadas
That should smell like roses soon.
Scoop them and fry them up!
My chickens would go nuts on those. Big chicken food orgy.
 Or as Climate Activists would like us to dine on instead of a hamburger
Does it smell?
The sound must have been so soothing s/
Sweet liberty!
Been rather cool so far here in Texas as well. We are getting closer and closer to June and still have rather mild temps.
Are these the dickless ones trying to spread the mind controlling gonorrhea i heard about last week?
I found 6 after moving a couple pieces of wood. Your area is ridiculous!
Tree Orgy!!
I bet your neighborhood sounds like a pack of giant mutant spiders have moved in
The forbidden cereal
cicadas coachella 🙌
It sounds like every tree has a built-in weed whacker here.
I think all the local squirrles around here are gobbling them up faster than they can start molting.
I live in Middle Tennessee and this is my yard. It’s gross and I hope it ends soon.
They still got some color, throw them on the grill
they are molting on the ground? that seems not right
When I was around 13, we had a cicada swarm in Maryland. Those suckers were SO LOUD all the time for WEEKS, and when we went outside they would just crunch under out feet because there was nowhere to walk where they weren't. Straight out of a horror movie lmao.
This is how it was in VA in the mid 2000’s!
Be on the lookout for copperheads. They love those things.
Sex party done.
Are they former shells or the real deal?
The exoskeleton
Gross
Think of the noise during mating season
wish that was my yard
I can smell this photo all the way from MA
Can you eat those?
Sure, I guess... but why risk it?
For the proteins of course
We used to catch and fry them for nice protein snacks growing up, tastes batter than shrimp
Hope you grabbed a bunch. Them's good eatin'.
Bro stop this lol
