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

[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.

[metmom]

Hopefully this cold snap will help take care of some of it.

[Dan in Wichita]

The Democrats and their propagandist media will explain this phenomenon as a result of "Climate Change."

They will blame capitalism and Republicans for the bugs everywhere, annoying everyone and causing damage.

Vote Democrat! will be the overriding theme of their reporting, just watch.

[JudyinCanada]

Wow. I wouldn’t want all those bugs asking me a lot of questions.

[Recompennation]

Makes sense 13 and 17 prime numbers make 221 to repeat. 2024 less 221 is 1803

[sauropod]

Here’s another recipe:

Just go to the grocery store.

[moovova]

Throw in the tree frogs and you have a symphony.

[lefty-lie-spy]

They are out every summer here. I love the noise. Hundreds of thousands of them all over the place (depending on where exactly you go of course), and by January, they have all disappeared into dust, then the cycle repeats again in late July and August. summer-over-summer, I’ve never seen a missing tree due to cicadas, and who cares about a few hundred or thousand trees anyway, more die every year naturally (and death my cicada is naturally) or by Bill Gates.

[MayflowerMadam]

If they take out trees maybe we’ll lose some skiing the shore of the river. TVA won’t let us do it so maybe God will take care of it.

[Vermont Lt]

They wouldn’t be doing this if Trump was in charge…. //joking

[deport]

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[ChessExpert]

Global warming or climate change?

[bert]

As a point of fact, birds do not eat the insects. Twice we have had hatches of uncountable thousands in our yard. The resident birds do not eat them.

We did have a very large turn out of Cedar Wax Wings that took up residence in our yard and trees. This species gobbled up the ubiquitous locusts.

[Hot Tabasco]

Ever seen a cicada killer

There's a bunch every summers end at the ball fields where I play.

[who knows what evil?]

Do they eat progressive tourists?

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Hire migrants to collect them, mill them, create foods for prisons, school lunches, congressmen. We could empty the prisons, blow up homeschooling, and clear congress permanently.

Insurrection J13!

[ChildOfThe60s]

With a little luck their noise will mask the ringing in my ears haha

[Campion]

I'm pretty sure this article is wrong. Brood XIII and Brood XIX are both emerging this year, but the only overlap is in a few counties in Illnois, not in Tennessee. Brood XIX is in Tennessee (and Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri). Brood XIII is in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa.

Map:

[ChildOfThe60s]

The article in the beginning says that the insects are hibernating. Go down a ways and it says that they are not hibernating while they are in the ground.

Somebody didn’t do his research when they wrote this

[week 71]

@ 34 Progressives aren’t tourists. They are colonizers. They have colonized News Media, Corporations, Social Media, Universities, Primary Education, Professional sports, Hollywood....

[who knows what evil?]

They touor, then they colonize. :-)