they're coming
>>57973415
fuck i remember a scooby doo episode about cicada swarms eating people alive or something. scarred me for life it did.
>Moved to the NE 2 years ago
I-is it bad?
>>57973931
I'll never forget feeling an itch, scratching my neck, and pulling a 3 inch grossmonster off my neck when I was 8
Best of luck
I'm currently 23 and this just gave me a flash back from when I was 6 or 7 and remembering finding their shells all over the place.
Oh shit, this is gonna be nuts
>>57973415
that doesn't sound fun
This'll be BONKERS
they sleep for 17 years or what?
Must be a different kind because we had them in 2007
>tfw remember the last one being shown on tv
>>57974362
There are different broods, the largest one happens every 17 years though, the last one was in 1999. This is the year
AAAAAAAAAAAA
What do cicadas sound like?
FUCK!!
>>57974511
This sound goes on from sunrise until the middle of the night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mah26og11ms
>>57974297
I-it's not. Noisy bastards leaving their skin shells everywhere
>>57974567
>only a single cicada
GET ON MY LEVEL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zGMXXPLqzQ
>>57974511
bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt
>>57974511
SKREEEEEEEEEE SKREEEEEEEEEEEE SKREE SKREE SKREE SKREE SKREEEEEEE
>>57973415
That's interesting. First time I hear something like that.
>>57974511
SI SI SIIIIISIIIII IIIIIII SIIISIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIII SISISISISISISI IIIIIIIII
>>57974511
The sound comes in waves. They all start quiet, then a crescendo. And actually, listening to the YouTube video doesn't conjure images of flying demons. Sounds like just another summer day when I hear cicadas chirping, not threatening at all
https://youtu.be/VFfImbQp0tQ
>>57973415
we will pray for you, rip usa
>>57973415
News discussion should be on >>>/news/.
Now get the hell out of here.
>>57973415
Fug dude, I remember the last time they came I was in 3rd or 4th grade. It was loud as fuck and the shells were fucking everywhere
>>57974733
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE-_kNWJXNw
>>57974785
this is culture and geography related
fuck the fuck off
>>57974894
This is animal and nature related.
Go to >>>/an/ and shut the fuck up.
At least they're not locusts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTOgUjMcQWk
>tfw they're waking me up during summer
I've never been that comfy
>>57975013
can those fuckers kill you? Like they bite you to death or some shit like that
YEEEESSS
I love these idiot fuckers
they're my only friends
Been waiting on you guys since 1st grade ;-;
>tfw maybe this is why I don't have any friends
>>57973415
Be grateful you have one swarm every 2 decades. We have them every fucking year in the shithole where I live. But not in such huge numbers as the 17 year brood seems to have
>>57974511
that comfy sound that you hear when you're watching an anime that takes place in summer
>>57973415
FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
>>57975295
Nope, they can starve you to death or make you crash with your car on some occasions.
FUCKING BASTARD CICADAS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNgPq698vio
>going outdoors
stop that
>>57975786
lmao right on her face
>>57974567
>>57974613
Cicadas are cute! CUTE! C U T E!
>>57973415
>used to collect their discarded shells in a jar during the summer when I was growing up in Irving
Literally no one ITT knows this feel.
>>57976089
I used to put them in my hair when I was a kid but then my mom made me stop because it wasn't ladylike.
>>57976218
You're ugly anyways so I don't know why she cared
>>57973415
What's wrong with them ? I don't know about billions but where I live they are everywhere during summer and there's no problem. I even like the sound, it's the sound of sun and siesta
>>57976218
Fully intact shells were the hardest to find, especially ones with all the legs.
They were like gold to me.
>>57976303
There's nothing wrong with them but when they zerg rush your shit it's not fun.
>>57976348
Fully intact ones are easy to find. Just look on tree trunks around eye level.
domestic usa stuff isn't /int/-related tb h, reported
Define "Northeast"
>>57976303
They're fine when they stick to the trees, but once they start closing in on your house/driveway/sidewalk etc they become a nuisance because they attack if you get too close.
>>57976494
More /int/ related than generals tbqh
What is this? We'll have a SuperBrood in 2016?
Fuck.
>>57976549
generals were a defense mechanism against an influx of americans to begin with
>>57976494
I'm reporting this thread too. It breaks my heart to see people breaking the rules like this
>>57976089
I used to collect them out on my great-grandma's farm in south Georgia. You're not alone Thai-bro. Shit's nostalgic
>>57976617
eeee evil Americans >:( now I can't discuss my irrelevant country
Lived in South Carolina all my life, never seen em.
do these things grow in Tennessee too?
>>57976617
This website was made by an American, why do they make you so asshurt?
>>57976679
They sound like childhood summers
>>57973415
The Manson Family are reforming?
Good band desu.
>>57976783
m00t is macedonian you fucking idiot. Now delete every post you made in this thread, kid.
last year I saw a kitten torturing a cicada, strays are useful sometimes
>>57976783
hiroyuki was korean (rip)
17 is a prime number
>>57974511
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSWDEXZdSoA
>>57976965
You're not wrong
>>57976679
Seeing a live one mid-shedding blew my mind when I first saw it.
Also had a mulberry tree and some honeysuckles in my backyard.
>>57974758
>>57973415
Yeah but every country has animals like that. Cicadas or crickets, every country has insect sounds in summer.
>mfw Americans think they're special for having insect noises in summer
>>57977254
They're a specific kind of cicada.
>This particular group of insects has a 17-year-life cycle that begins underground and culminates in the air
>As billions of insects emerge, they can reach a density of 1.5 million cicadas an acre in some areas.
>>57977373
I know, I was just trying to get a rise out of you.
>>57977422
you got a rise out of this
*unzips dick*
>>57975013
maybe they should buy nets to protect the crops. or at least nets to capture some locusts to eat them. in asia thats normal practice as far as i know. just go with a net into the swarm and you have filled it in seconds.
