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Two cicada cycles will emerge TOGETHER in Tennessee for the first time since Thomas Jefferson was president in 1803 - and could cause millions in damages
Daily Mail ^ | 1/12/24 | Stacey Liberatore

Posted on 01/13/2024 3:32:23 AM PST by week 71

Tennessee is set for a storm of cicadas not witnessed in more than 200 years.

The nosey, red-eyed winged insects hibernate in either 13- or 17-year cycles, but the state will soon be buzzing with both - and experts have predicted there will be one million per acre of land.

The infestation will likely see hundreds, if not thousands, of trees 'damaged beyond recovery,' a professor at Tennessee Tech University has warned.

The last time these two groups, Brood XIII and Brood XIX, co-emerged was in 1803, the same year as the Louisiana Purchase and when Thomas Jefferson was president.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Miscellaneous; Outdoors
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To: who knows what evil?

Oops...touor = tour.


41 posted on 01/13/2024 7:13:43 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: moovova

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3KJoMctnDo

Swamp Sounds at Night - Frogs, Crickets, Sleep & Relaxation Nature Sounds,


42 posted on 01/13/2024 7:19:25 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: week 71

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=cicada%20insects&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-34002-13078-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=102&keyword=cicada%20insects&crlp=_&MT_ID=&geo_id=&rlsatarget=kwd-76691112998445:loc-190&adpos=&device=c&mktype=&loc=106020&poi=&abcId=&cmpgn=395409486&sitelnk=&adgroupid=1227055183318962&network=s&matchtype=e&msclkid=04adb47cd23917bd84f0d1de783f7709

Evidently there is a market for them....................


43 posted on 01/13/2024 7:20:42 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: week 71

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/14-fun-facts-about-cicadas-180977361/

By emerging all at once in densities of up to 1.5 million per acre, cicadas manage to overwhelm predators, from songbirds to skunks, who quickly get too full to take another bite of the buzzing buffet.


44 posted on 01/13/2024 7:23:30 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Recompennation

One hypothesis for the reason behind the periodical cicadas’ seemingly inscrutable selections of 13- and 17-year increments for their reproductive cycle centers around the fact that both numbers are prime. The idea is that by popping out of the ground only in prime numbered intervals, periodical cicadas avoid ever synching up with booming populations of predators, which tend to rise and fall on two to ten year cycles, wrote Patrick Di Justo for the New Yorker in 2013.

Mathematically speaking, the logic checks out, but the thousands of cicada species around the world that don’t have synchronized brood emergences in prime increments cause cicada researchers to wonder if this is the whole story. If the periodical cicada’s unique life cycle is so uniquely advantageous, why haven’t the rest evolved similar reproductive strategies?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/14-fun-facts-about-cicadas-180977361/


45 posted on 01/13/2024 7:25:07 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: week 71

Noisy bugs. Not like they’re Shark-cadas or anything.

(dibs on the movie rights for Shark Week)


46 posted on 01/13/2024 7:33:41 AM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: week 71

Had no idea what they were until I visited relatives in Indiana - horrible. Chiggers too, which we do not have in California.

Will not be visiting if there is a “super bloom” of these little monsters.


47 posted on 01/13/2024 7:34:45 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Hot Tabasco
I don't know about cooking them, but this is wrong: the parts that the cicadas are going to discard when they get ready to hide for the next 17 years.

The adults flying and buzzing are just looking to breed. I don't even know if they eat anything as adults. Once they breed and the females lay their eggs they die. The eggs hatch, the larvae crawl undreground and eat for many years until it is time to come out 13 or 17 years later and look for some love again.

Other species of cicadas don't synchronize, so they come out after a few years but not by the millions. Some of the periodic ones also miscount time so a few may come out early or late.

48 posted on 01/13/2024 7:40:38 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: Hot Tabasco

“ a tsp of Chinese huajiao prickly ash buds.”

Darn. I’m all out of Chinese huajiao prickly ash buds.

Oh well. Guess I’ll make a nice T bone steak for dinner instead.

L


49 posted on 01/13/2024 7:42:42 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: week 71

The year they dedicated the WW2 Memorial, it was difficult to get a hotel room in DC so had to go about an hours ride into VA. That year it was horrible, you couldn’t walk down the sidewalk without stepping on dead or dying cicadas. Now at the age of 71, I have the same sound in my ears as back then, but it permit now.


50 posted on 01/13/2024 7:45:14 AM PST by mware
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To: Hot Tabasco

What is a cicada killer?
A bird? A raccoon? A cat? Other?


51 posted on 01/13/2024 7:47:50 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: Melinda in TN

Back in the early ‘70s, Hillsboro High School in Nashville did not have air conditioning and it was difficult to hear the teacher over the sound of the cicadas. We called them locusts which is incorrect but traditional like calling bison “buffalos”.

They really like those big suburban yards and like fireflies seem thicker in the suburbs than in the country.

They can fly but not well so when mowing the grass, they often errantly fly and smack into the yard boy (me). Fortunately, they don’t all take wing at once in swarms.


52 posted on 01/13/2024 7:52:16 AM PST by Monterrosa-24 (Saludemos la patria orgullosos)
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To: Baldwin77
Same here. I live on a farm near the floor of a large valley that has a creek running through it. The tree frogs have noisy wild parties on the creek in summer. Three kinds of Cicadas will be more noise than I can probably stand.

Take a look. The little Jack Russell is gone. He passed from old age, and I have Mountain Feists now that are related to him. Most of these pictures are old and my granddaughter is grown, but the farm is the same.

Farm

53 posted on 01/13/2024 8:00:31 AM PST by Melinda in TN
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To: week 71

By looking at the maps of the areas the two broods are located, this is all a bunch of hogwash because there will be very little overlap.


54 posted on 01/13/2024 8:03:35 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: mware
Now at the age of 71, I have the same sound in my ears

So do I! But now that you mentioned it, it just got louder....LOL!

55 posted on 01/13/2024 8:04:09 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (This Is The Way)
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To: Monterrosa-24

I’m way out in the country on a farm between Chattanooga and Knoxville and they are deafening in summer. I can’t imagine 3X as many all at the same time.


56 posted on 01/13/2024 8:07:50 AM PST by Melinda in TN
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To: lefty-lie-spy
It looks like a giant wasp.

They're a solitary wasp that digs a hole in the sand then drags the killed cicada into it and lays its eggs on it. Then the hatched larva will feed on it then emerge the following late summer and repeat the cycle.

They are harmless and I get a kick out of watching them. What's amazing about them is the fact they can fly with the killed cicada back to its hole.

57 posted on 01/13/2024 8:13:33 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (This Is The Way)
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To: Melinda in TN

I was admiring your farm pics with just a bit of jealousy. That farm is such a beautiful spread.


58 posted on 01/13/2024 8:15:30 AM PST by Monterrosa-24 (Saludemos la patria orgullosos)
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To: PeterPrinciple

The wife and I rented a cabin, for a weekend, on a lake at a SC State Park. SC has a great state park system with cabins at many of the parks. (Reserve early!) That particular weekend, the cicadas were emerging. Between the cicadas and the tree frogs...it was a roar. Still, we got used to it and it was a great trip. There was even a Cicada Festival at a nearby small town...complete with cicada pizza. No...I didn’t sample the pizza.


59 posted on 01/13/2024 8:16:02 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Monterrosa-24

We like it. We have been here for 35 years, so we have been fairly insulated from a lot of liberal politics.


60 posted on 01/13/2024 8:17:33 AM PST by Melinda in TN
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