When the Cicadas Cry....

[Neo Skimbleshanks]

Can't go outside. Large, clumsy insects are flying right into me, without fear bc they're only out and about every 17 years. It's been raining for a couple of days so I think the living ones have energy to burn... One just secretly landed on my shorts and I came inside, sat down, accidentally rested my hand on it and it screamed at me like Satan.

Do u live with Brood X cicadas right now? How's it going?

 

[muteKi]

I'm just dealing with extreme envy. They scream, they fuck, they die, and here I am refactoring fucking java for a living.

 

[Kirin]

We evidently have different broods down here... there were some out much earlier in the season, but not really any right now.

 

[Falselogic]

I wish we had cicada broods here in California...

 

[Neo Skimbleshanks]

We evidently have different broods down here... there were some out much earlier in the season, but not really any right now.

I thought they came earlier last time because they were there while I was in school. Not much earlier; just, like, early May. Maybe they did, maybe I misremembered when they came, maybe I went to school later. Anyway, they're here now and it was cute for a while! But I spend a lot of time outside and I'm getting owned by them...

I wish we had cicada broods here in California...

U can have them if u want. I've no objection.

 

[nosimpleway]

I mean, if I'd slept for the last 17 years and just woke up and looked around I'd probably scream until I died, too.

 

[q 3]

in the year 202X, Mega Man X fought the Brood X Cicadas. Will his battle ever end...?

 

[R.R. Bigman]

I’ve had hundreds of them in the backyard for the past week. The sound is intensely loud when you go outside.

 

[Octopus Prime]

We don’t get cicadas around here.but I suspect that if we did, I’d say “Ick! Yargh! Man... eww... GAH” quite often.

So is it just every 17 years that cicadas pop up and do their best to disrespect your personal space, or are they an every year thing and each swarm is one that just happened to spend their developmental years in a hole in the ground?

 

[Neo Skimbleshanks]

These cicadas only pop up every 17 years. Other species have 13 year cycles. Periodical cicadas. Apparently the fact that my hanger-on screamed meant he was a boy... well, I mean, maybe female cicadas scream, too. (probably not, though) But the non-stressed mating calls are male only.

 

[WisteriaHysteria]

I wish we had cicada broods here in California...

Haha, noooooo oh my god no. I've lived through some when visiting family in the Midwest, it's not a fun time. Back East can keep their Cicadas, I'd rather brave the earthquakes and forest fires.

 

[Büge]

I miss the tsuku-tsuku-boshii going "tsuku-tsuku-boshii"

 

[Neo Skimbleshanks]

They love to do this shit.

Just be like, "u r green. will u be my children's tree home..."

No!

(not angrily shaking my fist at the cicada, just keeping my arm away so I didn't scare them from a picture... complicit in the continued presence of cicadas on my person)

 

[Octopus Prime]

I read it as "triumphant" myself.

Like you were celebrating a cicada using your tummy as a house

Sending mixed messages to the handsy bugs

 

[Exposition Owl]

Maybe I'm imagining it, but it seems like the frogs have been louder in the evening near my apartment since the cicadas emerged. I bet they're eating well.

 

[Becksworth]

Enjoy your domestic pests. I got Japanese Beetles and what look like they may be Argentine Crazy Ants both deciding I got a nice yard here.

 

[Neo Skimbleshanks]

Twice today a cicada has decided the move has been to fully crawl under my shirt and follow me inside. This second one was a screamer and he also refused to get off my shirt after I sat it near various non-shirt surfaces. “No thanks, shirt’s home. I will be crawling towards the center of this shirt and not some greenery…” Okay, fine, I mostly tried cement near my door at first. That was on me. But he could have compromised, too.

 

[WisteriaHysteria]

Twice today a cicada has decided the move has been to fully crawl under my shirt and follow me inside. This second one was a screamer and he also refused to get off my shirt after I sat it near various non-shirt surfaces. “No thanks, shirt’s home. I will be crawling towards the center of this shirt and not some greenery…” Okay, fine, I mostly tried cement near my door at first. That was on me. But he could have compromised, too.

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[Ixo]

 

[Violentvixen]

This one is pretty! Appears to only be in SE Asia. Bugs are cool.

 

[Kirin]

That is definitely the coolest cicada recolor I've ever seen!

 

[MetManMas]

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