Cicada pocalypse

[B]

And .... Away we go!

[B]

Trillions of cicadas expected. TRILLIONS!

[tree_]

try not to get too attached to your juices from plant roots, fluids from woody shrubs and trees, everyone

[96583UP]

i am concerned about this from what i have read

hopefully it doesn't also coincide with a drought or something that makes food supply much worse

[spike]

It’s nice to have the windows open on milder spring/summer days, but the noise may make it impossible!

[spike]

i am concerned about this from what i have read

hopefully it doesn't also coincide with a drought or something that makes food supply much worse

A plague is a lock. Everyone’s windows closed will mean more Covid.

[B]

Sucks to be Spike.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Just saw a story on the news that people are calling police to complain about cicada noise. JFC. Hurry comet.

[96583UP]

meanwhile i had one neighbor powerwashing all day and on the other side the guy mowing while his getman shepherd barked endlessly

bring me the swarms!

[B]

I haven't heard any yet, but there are shells all over the sidewalks here.

[96583UP]

why the separation of the thread title into two words

[B]

why the separation of the thread title into two words

So "cicada" could be searched.

[96583UP]

interesting

i like it

[B]

I've heard cicadas before, and what I'm hearing sounds very different, but I think it's just because there are so many cicadas in the woods right now.

[spike]

Sucks to be Spike.

Fuck this, moving to Australia. I’ll take my chances with the deadly spiders and snakes and everything.

[96583UP]

i am not hearing any yet. maybe they migrate over the course of the year

[spike]

who are these fucks voting for is the real story

[B]

Sounds like everyone in the next town over are using their weed whackers at the same time.

[96583UP]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/art ... ada-geddon

What is a ‘zombie’ cicada?

Some, but far from all, of the cicadas emerging this year will be so-called “zombie” cicadas. These insects have been infected by a sexually transmitted fungus that makes them hyper-sexual.

Once spores of the fungus come into contact with the cicadas, the insects’ bodies are hijacked by the fungal parasite. A large mass of fungal spores builds up in the abdomen of infected cicadas causing the back end of the animals, including its genitals, to fall off. Despite this, the infected cicadas still attempt to mate in a frenzied way, as a way to spread the fungus, often with disastrous results for would-be partners.

“Periodical cicadas have interlocking genitalia. So when they pull apart, guess what happens? Rip. And then there’s a cicada walking around with someone else’s genitals stuck to them,” said John Cooley, a cicada expert at the University of Connecticut.

[B]

Just saw a story on the news that people are calling police to complain about cicada noise. JFC. Hurry comet.

I thought this was funny when you posted it, and now when I step outside I wonder if the Earth is under attack by aliens.

This morning it got loud enough to be heard inside my house with the doors and windows closed.