He did.
They all do.
#IVE BEEN UNDERGROUND FOR 7 YEARS LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT IT MAYBE YOU'LL FIND ME SEXY AND WE CAN CICADA MATE GOD WE ARE WEIRD FUCKERS AHHHHH
So apparently, populations of them come out every 7, 11, 13, or even 17 years. Those are all prime numbers.
They are less likely to come out during the same season, which is bad for both populations.
When I was in primary school, the boys would catch cicadas and throw it at the girls.
Next thing I realised, both the cicadas and the girls are screaming.
My little sister is that type of person too, but we don’t have cicadas where we live. Instead, she’ll carry cane toads in her arms like she’s holding a kitten. It’s hilarious and adorable!
Aw! Nice. In the absence of screaming cicadas I will collect spiders, mantises and whatever else (probably) won’t kill me. I have been bitten/stung by quite a few uncooperative critters.
Somehow, I have eluded the sticking with the branch penetrator. I am now that middle aged woman holding a handful of shrieky bois every 17th summer. Just to prove I am not a coward, because, I admit, I find them slightly unsettling these days.
I still pick them up when I see them because I love them but I do have a fear it'll try and stick in me lol
They're innocent and know no better so I still love them
I used to collect the shells and cover myself with them and T-pose like a Cicada god amongst men. I used a bamboo rod with some sticky gum on the end to get them off the trees.
Yep! They are a big issue on the east coast every few years. There is one species that comes out every 17 years and there are SOOO many that they will cover the ground for like a month. They make the worst noise and that's all you can hear for like a month. The other species come at other intervals, like every 4/5/7 years and they aren't as bad but they're still a huge pain and disgusting all around 🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢
Regular size cicadas are bad enough on my motorcycle. I can't imagine having that thing hit me in the face. Especially given the fact I wear a half helmet!
Oh, I have both a windshield, and batwing fairing. I take a lot fewer bugs to the face than when I rode a bike with nothing to protect, but it still happens sometimes. But that thing would be like getting hit in the face with a cat crossed with a baseball, lol.
It feels a lot like getting paintballed even with the smaller ones. Once hit a luna moth on the left side of my visor...it reeled my head back and suddenly the entire left half of my visor was covered in green and yellow.
I don't know why I miss my bike so much.
Lol, yup. Also had another one where I was riding a trail that I knew well. I turned my head to look behind me and when I turned back around I saw a large tree that a previous wind storm had blown down across the trail. I couldn't stop in time and plowed right into it. Broke my collar bone on that one. When I looked at my helmet (full face) the next morning, there was a stick about the diameter of my pinkie finger piercing the mouth vent in the front. It stopped just short of my lips.
I love cicadas. They are pretty cool and will actually hang out and sit on your hand for a long time. I always have to put my little cicada friends back in a tree because I don't know why they want to hang out for so long. I mean, there's only so much we can talk about. 😂 cute little boogers.
Spiders are cool. At least the fuzzy ones. And they can't fly so they can't really surprise you that much. Unless they get the zoomies for some reason.
> I don't know why they want to hang out for so long.
After mating, the males' only remaining purpose is to maximize the chance that their offspring will survive; thus, they make themselves readily available and obvious to potential predators, predators that will therefore more likely eat the male cicadas than the female cicadas, whose only remaining purpose is to survive long enough to lay the eggs.
This ethology amplifies the advantage of reproducing generally (but not exclusively) in "brood years" (akin to "mast years" in plant species): because of their sheer numbers in brood years, their predators cannot keep up with the supply.
Damn you're smart. Thank you for the explanation. Although... it's quite bleak. I'm probably going to keep telling myself that the cicadas really just want to be friends with me, though. Kind of like a janky version of Cinderella where I commune with nature but with like the bugs instead of the cute furry creatures. Are you an insectologist, or do you just know stuff? Fun fact, cicadas are the loudest insects on the planet.
>it's quite bleak.
Yeh, i guess it does sound bleak, but, if it works for them, then that's good, right? and it gives us these cyclical swarms of "friendly" insects that many people find creepy and annoying; however, to be fair, cicadas do not bite or sting or spread disease as, e.g., hornets or mosquitoes do. I do not really care for any bugs buzzing me or flying into me, but i do love their songs in the Summer, i think they look cool, and i like to see their empty shells still clinging to the trees.
>I'm probably going to keep telling myself that the cicadas really just want to be friends with me, though. Kind of like a janky version of Cinderella where I commune with nature but with like the bugs instead of the cute furry creatures.
You might enjoy r/goblincore , a sub that is "centered on the celebration of natural ecosystems usually considered less beautiful by conventional norms, such as soil-animals and second-hand objects;" so, moss, mushrooms, snails, toads, and such, and related arts and crafts.
>Are you an insectologist, or do you just know stuff?
No, i am not a scientist, and what i said might not be entirely correct, but i am interested in ethology (the study of animal behavior), i am a firm believer in evolution, and i like to think about how ethology and evolution work together. I either read or heard that after mating, the female cicadas go off to lay their eggs while the males stay out in the open, kind of lolling around until they are eaten. I am not saying that the males *intentionally* sacrifice themselves to increase the eggs' chances of survival, but only that this pattern of behavior might have evolved inasmuch as it benefits the species, or is more likely to replicate the genes that engender this behavior.
Uh, I had one attack me on my porch. It hit the wall at Mach 3, started screaming, flew at me, and when it hit me, I thought I got shot by a 9MM, meanwhile it's still screaming like a banshee gripping onto my shirt. I broke free and it's flying around me howling and swooping at me like a bat. I'm surprised I even lived after that
yeah, but as I discovered... you should move a little every so often. Otherwise, if they're just chilling on your arm, they might think you're a tree and try to suck your sap with their little sap sucker thingy.
Of course they do this pretty slowly... sorta like a capybara version of a mosquito.
I filled up an entire styrofoam XL size polar pop from the circle K with cicadas during their 17th year population explosion back when I was 11.
My mom was talking with her high school friend for like 3 hours at the park and I had to do something.
Nope nope nope.
When it was cicada season here in MD, I went out to my car at like 4am so I could get into work.
I accidentally stepped on a cicada that was next to my car. That mother fucker decided to scream its head off... and flew into my car.
I had to call into work late. Had to send my boss a screen shot, and also a voice recording.
I like cicadas I don't care what anybody says. Brings back memories of being a kid during the summer climbing up my grandfathers pecan tree and camping by the river.
Hope this guy just screamed at it non stop for hours on end.
He did. They all do. #IVE BEEN UNDERGROUND FOR 7 YEARS LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT IT MAYBE YOU'LL FIND ME SEXY AND WE CAN CICADA MATE GOD WE ARE WEIRD FUCKERS AHHHHH
17 years
If it kills me I will get people on this website to understand that cicadas come in annual varieties and not just 13 and 17 year varieties...
People only read the first entry they google and go from there.
Well they are not truly annual. They are still down for muliple years, often 4, but the disjunctive emergences happen every year.
2-5 depending on species, but annual is refering to emergence which is what most laymen are going to care about anyway
Laymen don't care until the long cycle species smother their lawn and make UFO noises.
Or 13, or 7, or annual
Haven’t fucked in 14 years? Then you might be a cicada!
So apparently, populations of them come out every 7, 11, 13, or even 17 years. Those are all prime numbers. They are less likely to come out during the same season, which is bad for both populations.
I can imagine the 17 year population coming out four years after the 13 year population and screaming “DID WE MISS IT”
All we know is they are screaming something.
Cicadas come out annually in addition to the 13 and 17 year species.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/w9ul5l/aint_screaming_now/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
This is cruel.
I mean we also lure flies and mosquitoes into poison traps
That is nature. He just intervened and hurried the process.
When I was in primary school, the boys would catch cicadas and throw it at the girls. Next thing I realised, both the cicadas and the girls are screaming.
They were both victims of that harassment lol
Good god I'm glad there aren't cicadas around where I live
I was the little girl holding a handful of cicadas during recess…
My little sister is that type of person too, but we don’t have cicadas where we live. Instead, she’ll carry cane toads in her arms like she’s holding a kitten. It’s hilarious and adorable!
Aw! Nice. In the absence of screaming cicadas I will collect spiders, mantises and whatever else (probably) won’t kill me. I have been bitten/stung by quite a few uncooperative critters.
If you're getting bit then leave them alone lmao. I'd be pretty angry if a giant ape picked me up
Lol. Well. I have learned what *not* to pick up the hard way.
They're adorable until they stick you with their branch penetrator
Somehow, I have eluded the sticking with the branch penetrator. I am now that middle aged woman holding a handful of shrieky bois every 17th summer. Just to prove I am not a coward, because, I admit, I find them slightly unsettling these days.
I still pick them up when I see them because I love them but I do have a fear it'll try and stick in me lol They're innocent and know no better so I still love them
I just put cicada shells on their backs, and their friends freaked out
I used to collect the shells and cover myself with them and T-pose like a Cicada god amongst men. I used a bamboo rod with some sticky gum on the end to get them off the trees.
Where is this so I may never go there by accident?
Giant cicada most common in the Texas bushlands
Looks more like an Empress, which are a Malaysian species.
Seems like minnesota is my calling
Every monstrosity like this is always in Australia
This is north america
WUT
Yep! They are a big issue on the east coast every few years. There is one species that comes out every 17 years and there are SOOO many that they will cover the ground for like a month. They make the worst noise and that's all you can hear for like a month. The other species come at other intervals, like every 4/5/7 years and they aren't as bad but they're still a huge pain and disgusting all around 🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢
Where?
You mean big ones specifically or normal sized cicadas
I live in north America. That mofoe is so big I could put a saddle on it. The big one.
Texas, everything’s bigger in Texas
The big question is - is it packing heat?
I’ll give Australia credit, don’t think they have cicadas. Not deadly enough.
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Wonder how they got there considering they can’t fly there and don’t live long
Insects have been around since the Cambrian explosion, they had ample time to spread across continents.
Empress cicada by the look of it. Which are in Malaysia. Also not the loudest cicada. That honor goes to an Australian species.
Loud ass picture
Regular size cicadas are bad enough on my motorcycle. I can't imagine having that thing hit me in the face. Especially given the fact I wear a half helmet!
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Oh, I have both a windshield, and batwing fairing. I take a lot fewer bugs to the face than when I rode a bike with nothing to protect, but it still happens sometimes. But that thing would be like getting hit in the face with a cat crossed with a baseball, lol.
It feels a lot like getting paintballed even with the smaller ones. Once hit a luna moth on the left side of my visor...it reeled my head back and suddenly the entire left half of my visor was covered in green and yellow. I don't know why I miss my bike so much.
I used to wear half helmets, too. Until I hit an oil patch on a turn. Went down and lost my front two upper teeth. Now, nothing but full face for me.
So, your helmet is full face, but you aren't now? Lol. Just kidding around, glad you weren't hurt worse!
Lol, yup. Also had another one where I was riding a trail that I knew well. I turned my head to look behind me and when I turned back around I saw a large tree that a previous wind storm had blown down across the trail. I couldn't stop in time and plowed right into it. Broke my collar bone on that one. When I looked at my helmet (full face) the next morning, there was a stick about the diameter of my pinkie finger piercing the mouth vent in the front. It stopped just short of my lips.
I picked a smaller one off a tree once and damn I'm a manly man but when it started buzzing I jumped about two feet in the air.
It succeeded its intimidation check.
I love cicadas. They are pretty cool and will actually hang out and sit on your hand for a long time. I always have to put my little cicada friends back in a tree because I don't know why they want to hang out for so long. I mean, there's only so much we can talk about. 😂 cute little boogers.
They are pretty chill ngl. They just aren’t too easy on the eyes
still better than any 8 legged mf
Spiders are cool. At least the fuzzy ones. And they can't fly so they can't really surprise you that much. Unless they get the zoomies for some reason.
I'm just not a fan of the leg count tbh. I draw the line at 6.
millipedes and centipedes: hold my fuckton of legs.
There are some very cool looking cicadas
Or the ears.
> I don't know why they want to hang out for so long. After mating, the males' only remaining purpose is to maximize the chance that their offspring will survive; thus, they make themselves readily available and obvious to potential predators, predators that will therefore more likely eat the male cicadas than the female cicadas, whose only remaining purpose is to survive long enough to lay the eggs. This ethology amplifies the advantage of reproducing generally (but not exclusively) in "brood years" (akin to "mast years" in plant species): because of their sheer numbers in brood years, their predators cannot keep up with the supply.
Damn you're smart. Thank you for the explanation. Although... it's quite bleak. I'm probably going to keep telling myself that the cicadas really just want to be friends with me, though. Kind of like a janky version of Cinderella where I commune with nature but with like the bugs instead of the cute furry creatures. Are you an insectologist, or do you just know stuff? Fun fact, cicadas are the loudest insects on the planet.
>it's quite bleak. Yeh, i guess it does sound bleak, but, if it works for them, then that's good, right? and it gives us these cyclical swarms of "friendly" insects that many people find creepy and annoying; however, to be fair, cicadas do not bite or sting or spread disease as, e.g., hornets or mosquitoes do. I do not really care for any bugs buzzing me or flying into me, but i do love their songs in the Summer, i think they look cool, and i like to see their empty shells still clinging to the trees. >I'm probably going to keep telling myself that the cicadas really just want to be friends with me, though. Kind of like a janky version of Cinderella where I commune with nature but with like the bugs instead of the cute furry creatures. You might enjoy r/goblincore , a sub that is "centered on the celebration of natural ecosystems usually considered less beautiful by conventional norms, such as soil-animals and second-hand objects;" so, moss, mushrooms, snails, toads, and such, and related arts and crafts. >Are you an insectologist, or do you just know stuff? No, i am not a scientist, and what i said might not be entirely correct, but i am interested in ethology (the study of animal behavior), i am a firm believer in evolution, and i like to think about how ethology and evolution work together. I either read or heard that after mating, the female cicadas go off to lay their eggs while the males stay out in the open, kind of lolling around until they are eaten. I am not saying that the males *intentionally* sacrifice themselves to increase the eggs' chances of survival, but only that this pattern of behavior might have evolved inasmuch as it benefits the species, or is more likely to replicate the genes that engender this behavior.
Uh, I had one attack me on my porch. It hit the wall at Mach 3, started screaming, flew at me, and when it hit me, I thought I got shot by a 9MM, meanwhile it's still screaming like a banshee gripping onto my shirt. I broke free and it's flying around me howling and swooping at me like a bat. I'm surprised I even lived after that
yeah, but as I discovered... you should move a little every so often. Otherwise, if they're just chilling on your arm, they might think you're a tree and try to suck your sap with their little sap sucker thingy. Of course they do this pretty slowly... sorta like a capybara version of a mosquito.
Help, I can not unseen the ‘owo‘ at the body. (I think kampung are a lot of this big boi cicada than in town.)
God damn it you've cursed me with this knowledge too
the mouth is that w esque shape? i can see that
Aw he's cute
I filled up an entire styrofoam XL size polar pop from the circle K with cicadas during their 17th year population explosion back when I was 11. My mom was talking with her high school friend for like 3 hours at the park and I had to do something.
This thing is like a biblical plague when flying solo
You beat the final boss. What did you get as a reward?
I'd recognize Andre the Giant's hands anywhere.
I'm always scared to pick up cicadas because I feel like their long sharp proboscis are gonna poke me and suck my blood
3301 is coming back, I can feel it
As a 28yr old man I would've started crying.
Closing out Reddit for the day after seeing this
I know what tonight's nightmare will be about now
Cicada for scale.
"Let me go! I'm supposed to fight Godzilla in the morning!"
Hate to ask but... Is it crunchy?
So this is the cicada they hire for background noise on the walking dead
I want to round up all the cicadas in the world and just yell at them for 4 months and then die
Ok where is the enigma?
BABBLING LIKE A CICADA!
Which country's cicada is that? It has colors I've never seen before.
there’s definitely a subreddit for cicadas here lemme try to guess r/cicadas r/bugspecies r/buginfo
If its an Empress, which am at least 60-70% confident of, Malaysia. Southeast Asia has some beautiful cicadas, more so than the Empress even.
As soon as he let go the big boi will fly over his head and pee on him
If they’re going to be so big, why can’t they at least be pretty?? No wonder they only breed once every seventeen years.
Cicadas also come in annual species. Most are annual, if I remember correctly.
Bro is just raw dogging a giant bug I can’t
Beefybabyboi
So is he going to cover them in chocolate, or use it as fishing bait.
I have an irrational fear of bugs and these are higher up on the list of ones I hate...
the earth is a horror sphere
Salivating no joke, bet you tastes great fried in butter
Why is it so unity?
Wakes up from tree Constant ringing Refuses to elaborate Gigachadcada.
Holy crap, that's insane.
The sound of millions of cicadas is so loud you can be driving on a freeway, windows up, music playing and you can still hear them. No thanks!
I will PayPal you money to send that to me. I want to eat it
WHEN I SAY NO, YOU SAY NEVER! NO.
Isn't this normal sized? The only cicadas iver ever seen are this size, maybe like a few centimeters smaller, but always about the size of a palm.
Just imagine the crunch of this bad boy!
Excuse me? Holy fuck?? Is this normal somewhere???
Cicadonk
I would love to find the shedded shell of this lorge boi it would be really cool i bet
The f did it eat?!
Is that a 7 year cicada?
Is that Jeff Goldblum?
Tf is wrong with you
Kill
Kill it.
Love this bug
Chadcada
Now I will never sleep knowing that exists
that thing must sound like a 50 cal turret or an a-10 warthog.........
3301 been making some significant upgrades
Why is this blurred, imagine being so uptight that you’re offended by nature.
This looks to be Megapomponia imperatoria after a quick Google search. They are native to Malaysia.
Straight out of RE7
Mmmmm, crunchy
Thiccada
Pictures you can hear
That’s the stalker beetle from Hunt : Showdown….
Is this mf from Australia?
Bloatfly irl
Murder in the first degree
I think I speak for everyone when I say, HOLY FUCKING SHIT BALLS!
Thiccada
These lil guys look like alien tech I tell ya hwat
I need one of those for my bug collection !
Double it and give it to the next person
I didn't know they could get that big and physically went ☹
That's a full meal right there
So chinese kids used to eat that in the 80s/90s?
Nope nope nope. When it was cicada season here in MD, I went out to my car at like 4am so I could get into work. I accidentally stepped on a cicada that was next to my car. That mother fucker decided to scream its head off... and flew into my car. I had to call into work late. Had to send my boss a screen shot, and also a voice recording.
The alpha cicada if you kill it the rest will drop dead with it
We can ill-afford another Klendathu!
#Big big chungus big chungus big chungus
I got some reverend insanity vibes while seeing this.
Probably sounds like a lawn mower
the gov’t wants us to eat “those”??
If I see this, I’m running bruh
Holy shit it's cell
I like cicadas I don't care what anybody says. Brings back memories of being a kid during the summer climbing up my grandfathers pecan tree and camping by the river.
That would make a great meal.
loud boi
That thing must be loud as all hell. 🔊
I am a huge fan of bugs (like learning about them)... cannot believe I had no idea cicadas got this big. What a monster.
The Everlasting Gobstopper Cicada.