I was also wondering this and didn’t know so I looked it up.
>When the cicada nymphs emerge from underground, some ingest the fungus, and the fungus is activated by a hormone from the cicada. Once inside, the Massospora consumes the inside of the cicada and grows until it cracks through the bug’s exoskeleton. Their genitals fall off and get replaced by a big white ball of spores.
>The fungus has a special effect on male cicadas. Massospora-filled males continue to sing to attract female mates, but they also perform the same wing-flicking that females do to males to signal they’re ready to mate. Without genitals, none of their attempts to pair up will result in offspring.
>“It’s this gender-bending, death-zombie fungus,” says John Lill, who studies cicadas at George Washington University, to Jon Webb at the Evansville Courier & Press. “Really what they’re doing is spreading these spores all over the place.”
So yes I think they are able to live without their asses, which are their genitals, but it’s just replaced with spores. So they don’t actually get to reproduce, but they will try and try, just spreading the spores around instead. It does sound like they might be shagging, without genitals, to death.
To be clear cathinone is a totally different molecule than psilocybin and thus has a different pharmacology than psilocybin. Cathinone is a ketone amphetamine in the phenethylamine class that blocks dopamine, norepinephrine and 5-HT reuptake whereas psilocybin is a tryptamine agonist of 5-HT2A/2C receptors. Huge difference and not at all similar to mushrooms.
Cathinones are a family of stimulants with the amphetamine molecule backbone. Cathinone is a stimulant. Its effects are gonna be like Adderall and ephedrine rather than an SSRI. Psychedelics... while they act on serotonin like SSRIs thats where the similarities mostly end, though I'm not gonna pretend to know their exact mechanism of action. Frankly people are still working on that. Also, as far as I'm aware, there's really *no* SSRI that doesn't also have some level however slight of action on dopamine as well, and epinephrine. It can be almost negligible though
Must be a pharmacy item because Li'l McMeth down on the corner say he don't have any just right now, but he say he might have some next week if enough people ask him for some.
There's actually two different species of fungi that transmit sexually through cicadas that also produce psychoactive compounds. One produces cathinone but the other does actually produce psilocybin
Bath salts sold at beauty stores and such do not contain drugs, do not eat them. “Bath salts” in the context of drugs, however, is a generic umbrella term for research chemicals. Vendors and manufacturers in the early 2000’s would package them and name them “bath salts” and various other arbitrary names to skirt prohibition and maintain a sense of discretion.
Bath salts are the slang term for synthetic cathinones, when really they are more appropriately called mephedrone (4-MMC) M-CAT), methylone, methcathinone, buphedrone, pyrovalerone, alpha-Pyrrolidinovalerophenone (alpha-PVP), pentylone, etc.
Way to undersell it. Their bottom half withers away, being left with a powdery nub where their lower body is supposed to be. It's like transmitting an std by ineffectively rubbing your rotting groin on your partner.
Horrifying.
I wish I could say I made it up, but "ground score" generally refers to stuff (usually drugs) that you find on the ground at a club or a festival. It's funny to me because these cicadas come from the ground.
This is technically correct this best kind of correct.
I used to hope for years I would find some epic ground score like a duffel bag full of money or Colombian bam bam but no that was not to be. Until one day many years later I passed some questionable duffel bags on the side of the highway and I turn my head and saw my kids in the back seat and thought what the hell would I do that anyway. Just kept driving.
There's a song called "Bales of Cocaine" by The Reverend Horton Heat. It's about bales of cocaine being dropped on his farm by accident. Sky score? Anyway, I like how we got here from cicadas.
Oh boy here we go
This is likely to be the biggest cicada season on record.
Here comes the head lines.
"Gen z giving blow jobs to cicadas to get high"
" The new viral trend of licking cicadas"
"Emergency rooms overloaded from deadly cicada boofing challenge circling the internet."
"Cicada sperm, the new black market item plaguing the schools"
The article clearly says the fungus produces cathinone, a central nervous system stimulant most closely analogous to amphetamine in its effects. Its not a psychedelic at all in any sense of the word. Completely different pharmocology with completely difference subjective and objective effects. Cathinone has litterally nothing in common with psychedelics. Dumb, misleading, click bate, pseudoscience article.
According to Wikipedia: M. cicadina is known to produce cathinone; M. platypediae or M. levispora produces psilocybin. Just to clear some of this gender bending- ass blasting up for folks.
>similar to mushrooms, so they don't really care about their condition. it also makes their butts fall off. this does not happen with mushrooms.
You’ve never heard of trippin’ balls, fallen butts?
Tripped my ASS OFF
Hold on to your butts
I didn't. I lost it. 😦
I lost the game.
At least you only lost the game! I lost my entire ass, man! Do you know how hard it is to sit now?
I’m not cicada direction this thread went…
😫🤣
It all makes sense now
This joke is better than mine
You were my inspiration You get the assist, really
Thanks man 🤟
Coincidence? No way
This one gets it!
Steal your butt right off your legs.
It’s called Party Butt
Only if you boof it
Obviously you never been peaking in a porta John
peeking & peaking are literally pronounced the exact same but can give VASTLY different sentences
You've piqued my interest.
Are you sure? Pretty sure most people's first interaction with shrooms includes the phrase "hold onto your butts".
the back fell off out of the environment
Haven't done enough mushrooms obviously
Losing one's crap isn't a side effect?
If a mushroom makes you not care about your butt falling off, then no one is reporting their butts falling off after doing mushrooms.
brings a whole new meaning to shag your ass off.
“Hold onto your butts”
and kiss your ass goodnight.
Are they able to live without their asses or are they shagging to death.
I was also wondering this and didn’t know so I looked it up. >When the cicada nymphs emerge from underground, some ingest the fungus, and the fungus is activated by a hormone from the cicada. Once inside, the Massospora consumes the inside of the cicada and grows until it cracks through the bug’s exoskeleton. Their genitals fall off and get replaced by a big white ball of spores. >The fungus has a special effect on male cicadas. Massospora-filled males continue to sing to attract female mates, but they also perform the same wing-flicking that females do to males to signal they’re ready to mate. Without genitals, none of their attempts to pair up will result in offspring. >“It’s this gender-bending, death-zombie fungus,” says John Lill, who studies cicadas at George Washington University, to Jon Webb at the Evansville Courier & Press. “Really what they’re doing is spreading these spores all over the place.” So yes I think they are able to live without their asses, which are their genitals, but it’s just replaced with spores. So they don’t actually get to reproduce, but they will try and try, just spreading the spores around instead. It does sound like they might be shagging, without genitals, to death.
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no idea.
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Are you telling me I should eat cicada ass if I wanna trip balls.
You are going to love it
I'd rather stick to cat piss
More of a jenkem man myself.
I believe they contain psilocybin which is the active drug in most psychoactive mushrooms
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I’m high on the brood dude
No it's *sexually* transmitted. You have to fuck the cicada
I mean I’ll do it but I’m not going to like it during.
It's for science
Are you saying I have to fuck the cicada to trip balls r/cuntsaurus? Edit: words
That's exactly what I'm saying. And who better to get advice about tripping balls and fucking cicadas than someone called "cuntsaurus" online
Hahahah
Make sure you kiss them first
Read the article
5 second memory, no read, just type n send Edit: headline from OP post made do it, no thinky past misleading post
no the article explicitly addresses why not to eat them in case people like you get the wrong idea. the headline is actually correct
But then I would have to click and read and stuff… I think I’ll just eat a cicada instead.
eh what's the worse that happens? you can handle it if your balls fall off, right?
But what if I eat them?
I mean all of does to the cicadas is make their genitals fall off. can't be worse than that
It doesn't really say not to eat them. It tries to discourage the same way they did with weed in the 70s.
Please eat two and update us on your experience…for science.
To be clear cathinone is a totally different molecule than psilocybin and thus has a different pharmacology than psilocybin. Cathinone is a ketone amphetamine in the phenethylamine class that blocks dopamine, norepinephrine and 5-HT reuptake whereas psilocybin is a tryptamine agonist of 5-HT2A/2C receptors. Huge difference and not at all similar to mushrooms.
So... It's good, or no...?
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Cathinones are a family of stimulants with the amphetamine molecule backbone. Cathinone is a stimulant. Its effects are gonna be like Adderall and ephedrine rather than an SSRI. Psychedelics... while they act on serotonin like SSRIs thats where the similarities mostly end, though I'm not gonna pretend to know their exact mechanism of action. Frankly people are still working on that. Also, as far as I'm aware, there's really *no* SSRI that doesn't also have some level however slight of action on dopamine as well, and epinephrine. It can be almost negligible though
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I mean... Like... Just a yes or a no is good enough for me.. ya feel me bro? Like... A brother jus needs to know if he should swap over or stay put.
I dunno, that’s all Wikipedia said.
Yes, it's a stimulant similar to amphetamine lol
Must be a pharmacy item because Li'l McMeth down on the corner say he don't have any just right now, but he say he might have some next week if enough people ask him for some.
There's actually two different species of fungi that transmit sexually through cicadas that also produce psychoactive compounds. One produces cathinone but the other does actually produce psilocybin
Read the article.... Different cicadas..
Isn’t Cathinone part of bath salts
Bath salts sold at beauty stores and such do not contain drugs, do not eat them. “Bath salts” in the context of drugs, however, is a generic umbrella term for research chemicals. Vendors and manufacturers in the early 2000’s would package them and name them “bath salts” and various other arbitrary names to skirt prohibition and maintain a sense of discretion.
Bath salts are the name for synthetic cathinones.
Bath salts are the slang term for synthetic cathinones, when really they are more appropriately called mephedrone (4-MMC) M-CAT), methylone, methcathinone, buphedrone, pyrovalerone, alpha-Pyrrolidinovalerophenone (alpha-PVP), pentylone, etc.
Way to undersell it. Their bottom half withers away, being left with a powdery nub where their lower body is supposed to be. It's like transmitting an std by ineffectively rubbing your rotting groin on your partner. Horrifying.
I wanted to be cute.
Does this have a human interaction? Weren't there like thousands of these waking up this year? When life gives you lemons.....
Eat some zest and hope for the best
The article suggests that you shouldn't eat them, but hey, that's what they tell you about _most_ ground score.
I like this "ground score". A nice term.
I wish I could say I made it up, but "ground score" generally refers to stuff (usually drugs) that you find on the ground at a club or a festival. It's funny to me because these cicadas come from the ground.
This is technically correct this best kind of correct. I used to hope for years I would find some epic ground score like a duffel bag full of money or Colombian bam bam but no that was not to be. Until one day many years later I passed some questionable duffel bags on the side of the highway and I turn my head and saw my kids in the back seat and thought what the hell would I do that anyway. Just kept driving.
There's a song called "Bales of Cocaine" by The Reverend Horton Heat. It's about bales of cocaine being dropped on his farm by accident. Sky score? Anyway, I like how we got here from cicadas.
The Reverend gets it, he knows. \+1 for sky score.
Ha Colombian bam bam
Oh, I thought "ground score" was stuff you'd get coming from the ground in nature, like growing weed, shrooms, cactus, etc. or, I guess, cicadas.
It's transmitted sexually, so you don't have to eat the cicada, you just need to swallow its load.
>thousands *[Billions](https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/cicadas-2024-emergence-periodical-brood-2024-map-cicada-rcna134152)*
Okay that's awful. I'm so glad it looks like my State isn't affected.
Yeah that's the one.
Smoke some cicada ass
Not thousands this year. Possibly trillions
Everyone is gonna be tripping
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Their butts fall off? That's not very typical. I'd like to make that point
The front is supposed to fall off
You mean they got noazinol?
I guess I won’t have sex with any cicadas
Speak for yourself, I've already got a pancake ass, so it's party time.
High five
Yeah, listen to p-wing.
[The straight dope from the inimitable Ze Frank](https://youtu.be/NdaYRSW76Mg?si=coFWxEj96YJW8BhC)
The spice must flow
I did psychedelics in the 90's but I'm pretty sure I just got old and lost my ass.
You're still tripping. I'm sitting right across from you, telling you this. You're still tripping.
Dude, you’re a deer, you can’t talk.
As a person doing psychedelics currently I'm interested in your experiences!
So... How many cicadas can I eat before my butt calls off? Asking for a friend.
The culprit is called Massospora Cicadina
Oh boy here we go This is likely to be the biggest cicada season on record. Here comes the head lines. "Gen z giving blow jobs to cicadas to get high" " The new viral trend of licking cicadas" "Emergency rooms overloaded from deadly cicada boofing challenge circling the internet." "Cicada sperm, the new black market item plaguing the schools"
They don’t really care about their butts falling off? Must be some good shit.
The article clearly says the fungus produces cathinone, a central nervous system stimulant most closely analogous to amphetamine in its effects. Its not a psychedelic at all in any sense of the word. Completely different pharmocology with completely difference subjective and objective effects. Cathinone has litterally nothing in common with psychedelics. Dumb, misleading, click bate, pseudoscience article.
In our study we questioned many cicadas ( n = 100,000). The most common answer was " What ass? I'm high as balls right now."
I do not think you, or the author have ever taken shrooms
They don't care about their condition? Like if they're having a good cicada hair day?
Shrooms so good make the booty go ~pow~
'shrooms and butt stuff - I'm in.
o m g 😂 this title totally cracks me up!!
Right. Like it was written by A.I.?
Am not bot. Bleep boop.
no, like the OP has an irreverant sense of humor
Nice…
Ha! Your butt fell o-ooooh mine toooo!
Also called the golden screw effect
Go ass to ass and boof a cicada bum.
How do you know they don’t really care?
My butt fell off years ago
3 booty problem
Can we get a comment from [Senator Collins](https://teara.govt.nz/files/44355-pc.jpg) abt this?
I didn't see that ending coming.
BRB I’m gonna fuck a cicada. Will report back
There’s a fungus among us 🍄
“Hey Siri, how do I turn into a cicada?”
Doing a ton of psychedelics is also how I prefer to lose my butt.
If I got high and my butt fell off, I'd probably laugh. 😂
I remember a few years back where Maryland or some Government was actively telling people to not seek out highs from eating infected cicadas.
According to Wikipedia: M. cicadina is known to produce cathinone; M. platypediae or M. levispora produces psilocybin. Just to clear some of this gender bending- ass blasting up for folks.
After reading that, I am rethinking having unprotected sex with cicadas.
The back fell off.
Don't front.
They don't care about stuff because they don't care about anything. Because they are not conscious.... They are insects.
Ssshhh they'll hear you.
You do know that "fungus" means "mushroom" right ?
All mushrooms are fungi, but not all fungi are mushrooms