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Brood X Cicadas Are Emerging at Last
Scientific American ^
| 5-10-21
| Kate Wong and Cherie Sinnen
Posted on 05/10/2021 9:07:24 AM PDT by dynachrome
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El gato likes chasing grasshoppers, but a few thousand cicadas may be beyond his capabilities.
To: dynachrome
“Brood X” would be a good label for the next human generation.
We have already gone through Boomers, Gen. X, Millennials and ‘Other’.
To: dynachrome
They’ll probably freeze here.
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posted on
05/10/2021 9:12:34 AM PDT
by
rdl6989
( )
To: dynachrome
Within days people will be going nuts from the sound.
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posted on
05/10/2021 9:13:00 AM PDT
by
pfflier
To: dynachrome
...the billions of constituents of Brood X tunnel up from their subterranean lairs to spend their final days partying in the sun. We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun....................
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posted on
05/10/2021 9:13:39 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
To: pfflier
Not me........................
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posted on
05/10/2021 9:14:06 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
To: dynachrome
After hiding in the basement for 17 years now they are emerging to scream, breed and die. Other than breaking windows it sounds like an insect Antifa.
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posted on
05/10/2021 9:15:58 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Police should refuse duty at NBA venues. Let them wallow in their desired chaos without police.)
To: pfflier
Grew up in Bama. Love the sound. I missed it when I was abroad.
To: dynachrome
Every 17 years the (m)illions of constituents of Brood X tunnel up from their subterranean lairs to spend their final days partying in the sunThis reads like the current state of the corporate conservative movement.
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posted on
05/10/2021 9:17:33 AM PDT
by
JonPreston
(Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
I hear them every day, 24/7/365!......................
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posted on
05/10/2021 9:19:21 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
I missed it when I was abroad. Are you a guy now?
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posted on
05/10/2021 9:20:57 AM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(We support Trump. Not the GOP)
To: pfflier
I already have tinnitus, so I don’t think the cicadas will bother me any.
To: FatherofFive
To: pfflier
Within days people will be going nuts from the sound.I lived most my life out west, where we don't get the cicadas. Never so much as heard one in 36 years of life, and then I moved to WV for a few years. That nonsense noise about drove me batty. I'm so thankful to be back home in Colorado where I don't have to listen to that anymore.
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posted on
05/10/2021 9:26:40 AM PDT
by
dware
(Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
05/10/2021 9:26:43 AM PDT
by
pa_dweller
( Censure Toomey! )
To: dynachrome
I remember them well....like a cheap horror movie soundtrack
It’s cold as F here for may
Usually when they come out it’s hot as S
I live on a meadow hilltop now I won’t hear them like I did then when I lived in a hollow in green hills section Nashville where it was loud like a nightime jungle cacophony
Should be good for car wash biz
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posted on
05/10/2021 9:28:22 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Let me guess FREEPERS are now salivating over Tim Scott.....so predictable just like talk radio )
To: dynachrome
"A recent BBC article says researcher John Petti as found the answer: Brevisana brevis, an African cicada, reaches 106.7 decibels — with the loudest North American cicada, Megatibicen pronotalis walkeri at 105.9 decibels."
105.9! I used to shoot them with my rubber band gun when I was a kid.
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posted on
05/10/2021 9:29:07 AM PDT
by
BozoTexino
(RIP GOP)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Me too.
I hear them every day...
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posted on
05/10/2021 9:36:40 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: dynachrome
David Attenborough’s ‘A Perfect Planet’ has a section on it. The whole series is a visual treat.
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posted on
05/10/2021 9:38:14 AM PDT
by
libh8er
To: dynachrome
I haven't seen a giant outbreak here in NJ since I was a little kid, probably 45 years ago or so. Back then their exoskeltons covered the streets and the sound was deafening.
Every few years, they promise "the big one, Lizabeth" but it's consistently a dud.
Maybe this year. It's a hell of a spectacle when it happens.
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posted on
05/10/2021 9:43:16 AM PDT
by
dead
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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