Okay so no, you were so creative that such a thought never entered my head, but still I can appreciate it afterwards! (Especially if we’re all about to die, now from apocalypse:-Q)
I mean, they don’t bite, they live underground and the wildlife feasts the years they emerge and the forest blooms like crazy for a few years following.
It’s not terrible honestly, it’s not like the locusts you hear about in old stories.
From a practical standpoint, they don’t bite or sting.
But, I have actually been “bitten” by a cicada! I guess it’s my claim to fame. Now before anybody gets all pedantic, of course it wasn’t a bite. They have needle like mouth parts, which can actually pierce skin but they can’t chomp down like a wasp or beetle.
I found this out awhile back when a cicada landed on my hand/finger while I was outside. I felt like the most wonderful Disney princess ever. I let it chill on my finger while I went about my business.
But eventually I felt a jab. Nothing serious or particularly painful. Then I watched as the bug repeatedly lifted up and tried to ram its mouth parts into my skin. It had apparently confused me for a tree and it was trying to feed – at least that’s my best guess. And yes, it did draw blood.
In all my years of life on this Earth, handling these critters every year since early childhood, that was the first and only time it happened.
Many parts of the eastern US had the Brood X cicada emerge in 2021.
It is a LOUD and constant droning that you get used to and then forget all about a year later.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical_cicadas
I fucking love the sound. Its the sound of summer for me. But…yeah. gonna be a lot worse this year.
Apparently this year the great southern brood and the northern brood are emerging at the same time.
Which my understanding has the potential to create a new brood as well. Neat.
That sweet sweet sound of the impending apocalypse:-P.
Because apocalypses A-O weren’t enough?!
You read my freaking mind!
Okay so no, you were so creative that such a thought never entered my head, but still I can appreciate it afterwards! (Especially if we’re all about to die, now from apocalypse:-Q)
If there is a god, north america must have been cursed by them.
I mean, they don’t bite, they live underground and the wildlife feasts the years they emerge and the forest blooms like crazy for a few years following.
It’s not terrible honestly, it’s not like the locusts you hear about in old stories.
From a practical standpoint, they don’t bite or sting.
But, I have actually been “bitten” by a cicada! I guess it’s my claim to fame. Now before anybody gets all pedantic, of course it wasn’t a bite. They have needle like mouth parts, which can actually pierce skin but they can’t chomp down like a wasp or beetle.
I found this out awhile back when a cicada landed on my hand/finger while I was outside. I felt like the most wonderful Disney princess ever. I let it chill on my finger while I went about my business.
But eventually I felt a jab. Nothing serious or particularly painful. Then I watched as the bug repeatedly lifted up and tried to ram its mouth parts into my skin. It had apparently confused me for a tree and it was trying to feed – at least that’s my best guess. And yes, it did draw blood.
In all my years of life on this Earth, handling these critters every year since early childhood, that was the first and only time it happened.
Nah, I think Australia can take that one. They probably have human sized cicadas down there.
I don’t see why there can’t be multiple cursed lands!
Maybe God can multitask.
Maybe cursing a land is a one-time action and doesn’t need any more input afterwards.
Maybe there’s more than one god!
I do like the pantheon of cursed lands! I’ll start sending some cicadas over to Deutschland so you can join us. ;)
We already have both floods and droughts : /
I can’t possibly imagine why…
I have a few ideas!
Good thing we didn’t build civilization on a native American burial ground.
Yeah, cursed with vast natural resources
We did this to ourselves. Don’t blame some phantasm, we need to take responsibility.
This year’s supposed to be even worse I hear
Depending on where you are, yeah there are two broods emerging at the same time this year. Not on the east coast though.
I’ve heard this every year of my life, and you’re likely right statistically speaking.