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For the last week or so, “Brood X” Cicadas have been emerging up and down The East Coast.
They basically are born underground and stay there for 17 years before emerging, mating, then kicking the bucket.
The noise that they make is astonishing.
I just had a walk and the noise that the produce drowned out a very busy toll road.
There is expected to be up to a Trillion of them this year.
They really are quite phenomenal.
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/27/99116...me-the-cicadas
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It's a hugely interesting phenomenon, Wash DC Blue. I heard someone on the radio explain the probable reason about the time-cycle involved regarding the cicadas but it wasn't very convincing to me.
I don't usually hear cicadas until August. I haven't seen or heard anything yet.
When I lived in Tokyo the sound of the cicadas (or Mee Mee's as we called them) was amazing every summer. This video doesn't really do it justice...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x640...nnel=softypapa
I was in Oz years ago, with my old man. He commented to my Oz uncle I can’t understand the rain, my uncle replied that’s the Cicadas pissing on you
Interesting.
There has to be a reason. We just don’t know it.
This is great from David Attenborough.
https://youtu.be/tjLiWy2nT7U
I've read it could be that they all emerge at once to overwhelm the predator populations, far too many in one time for them all to be eaten so some will manage to mate and start the next brood, then wait until any boost they've given to the predators has worn off.
interesting as well that they either emerge after 13 or 17 years, both being prime numbers. I wonder if there's a reason for that
I remember reading a book, where the story revolved around the emergence of the cicadas, after their seventeen year stint underground. I hadn't heard of them before, so had to look them up. What strange creatures.