Cicadas (2 Viewers)

[LAhotsauce]

I saw one last night going down some steps. Fairly large one. Later going up same steps it was still there, except this time it noticed me and flew to my leg. I smacked it off.

As it fell off the steps it made that loud noise as if it was highly perturbed.

 

[Zztop]

Cicadas pee in jets, not droplets. Here’s why that’s kinda weird.

Come for the cicada video, stay for the scaling graphic of urination across animal kingdom.

arstechnica.com

 

[Madmarsha]

Cicadas pee in jets, not droplets. Here’s why that’s kinda weird.

Come for the cicada video, stay for the scaling graphic of urination across animal kingdom.

arstechnica.com

I thought the thread bump was gonna be about cicada-geddon.

ETA: I just watched video of a cicada peeing. God I love the internet.

A Double Emergence of Periodical Cicadas Isn’t Cicada-geddon—It’s a Marvel

The U.S. is seeing two adjacent broods of periodical cicadas emerge this spring in a synchronized marvel of evolution

www.scientificamerican.com

 

[Nisey55]

I thought the thread bump was gonna be about cicada-geddon.

A Double Emergence of Periodical Cicadas Isn’t Cicada-geddon—It’s a Marvel

The U.S. is seeing two adjacent broods of periodical cicadas emerge this spring in a synchronized marvel of evolution

www.scientificamerican.com

Apparently the crane flies told the cicadas to hold my beer.
I have never seen anything like this.

 

[Paul]

I thought the thread bump was gonna be about cicada-geddon.

A Double Emergence of Periodical Cicadas Isn’t Cicada-geddon—It’s a Marvel

The U.S. is seeing two adjacent broods of periodical cicadas emerge this spring in a synchronized marvel of evolution

www.scientificamerican.com

I think it’s pretty cool and will be watching the game on Superbrood XIXIX Sunday.

 

[WhoDatPhan78]

A superbrood and a total solar eclipse around the same time.

I think the Bible tried to warn us about this.

 

[Madmarsha]

I saw one last night going down some steps. Fairly large one. Later going up same steps it was still there, except this time it noticed me and flew to my leg. I smacked it off.

As it fell off the steps it made that loud noise as if it was highly perturbed.

It was perturbed cos it was trying to mate with you.

 

[Zztop]

If anyone is interested, I found some recipes

http://www.tullabs.com/cicadaworld/cicadarecipes.pdf

"CICADA-LICIOUS: Cooking and Enjoying Periodical Cicadas"

Created by Jenna Jadin
and the University of Maryland Cicadamaniacs
2004

 

[Dago]

 

[Sailorsaint]

I used to love playing with them when I was a kid, now they just creep me out.

 

[Madmarsha]

If anyone is interested, I found some recipes

http://www.tullabs.com/cicadaworld/cicadarecipes.pdf

"CICADA-LICIOUS: Cooking and Enjoying Periodical Cicadas"

Created by Jenna Jadin
and the University of Maryland Cicadamaniacs
2004

 

[sfidc3]

I love them because trout and smallmouth bass love them, and I flyfish....so....they bring out the big ones for sure....

 

[SaintInBucLand]

Look our future food supply

 

[Tapxe]

If anyone is interested, I found some recipes

http://www.tullabs.com/cicadaworld/cicadarecipes.pdf

"CICADA-LICIOUS: Cooking and Enjoying Periodical Cicadas"

Created by Jenna Jadin
and the University of Maryland Cicadamaniacs
2004

Not saying no, but I'mma need to be on a pretty long fast first.

 

[Optimus Prime]

A rare phenomenon that hasn’t occurred since Thomas Jefferson was in the White House is set to take place - but possibly for the last time.

It isn’t a comet or the upcoming solar eclipse — rather, the emergence of trillions of cicadas. Two broods of the flying insects — named XIII and XIX — are set to invade the east coast and midwest in the coming weeks after last burrowing out of the soil together in 1803.

Their next co-emergence isn’t expected until 2245.

“I’ve actually been looking forward to this for many years now,” Dr Katie Dana, an entomologist and cicada expert from Illinoistold The Independent. “I’ve been trying to spread the word — people haven’t listened until this year.”…….

Bug haters, beware: After 200 years, the cicadas are here by the trillions

Two broods of cicadas will emerge at the same time in the coming weeks. The next time this will happen? 2245. Katie Hawkinson reports

www.independent.co.uk