Be prepared for jets of urine from cicadas this Summer

[lucas80]

2 different broods of cicadas will emerge this Summer, a very rare event. Cicadas can shoot their urine quite a ways relative to their body size, and from up in a tree they can create clouds of droplets if a large enough number of cicadas are roosting in a tree above you.
https://www.kcrg.com/2024/03/21/watch-out-cicadas-jetting-fluids-this-summer/

 

[The Tradition]

CSB

 

[HROT]

 

[desihawk]

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Someone smarter than me, tell me what useful purpose to the ecosystem to cicadas provide? Usually most things serve a purpose in some way.

 

[Pinehawk]

I hear this same thing every year. That's it's a 17 year cicada hatch...again.
And, I never notice anything different.

 

[NDallasRuss]

 

[CarolinaHawkeye]

I hear this same thing every year. That's it's a 17 year cicada hatch...again.
And, I never notice anything different.

It seems, that from the first time I heard about them, it's an every year thing.

 

[lucas80]

I hear this same thing every year. That's it's a 17 year cicada hatch...again.
And, I never notice anything different.

Double hatching this year, Bro. The first time since 1803 that it's happened. You've been warned.

 

[Funky Bunch]

 

[The Tradition]

FINALLY someone follows the rules!!!

 

[The Tradition]

Someone smarter than me, tell me what useful purpose to the ecosystem to cicadas provide? Usually most things serve a purpose in some way.

Ever see a cat try to grab a cicada in its mouth?

Lots of laughs.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Still have not heard what purpose they serve in the ecosystem

 

[The Tradition]

Still have not heard what purpose they serve in the ecosystem

Birds eat them.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Birds eat them.

Thats not a purpose

 

[The Tradition]

Thats not a purpose

That's the purpose of most bugs. They're food for something bigger than them.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

That's the purpose of most bugs. They're food for something bigger than them.

DIdn't know your Masters Degree in screwing over people was that wide of knowledge

That is like saying worms only purpose is to feed birds.

 

[The Tradition]

DIdn't know your Masters Degree in screwing over people was that wide of knowledge

That is like saying worms only purpose is to feed birds.

Now, worms do wonderful things for soil that benefits plants greatly.

And now that you mention that, these cicada grubs living in the ground for 17 years might have a benefit to the soil as well.

 

[lucas80]

Still have not heard what purpose they serve in the ecosystem

Here you go, hater.
https://www.epa.gov/safepestcontrol... not dangerous and,the soil as they decompose.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Here you go, hater.
https://www.epa.gov/safepestcontrol/cicadas#:~:text=Cicadas are not dangerous and,the soil as they decompose.

Thank you. And I am a hater because of the noise. But now I appreciate their part in the ecosystem.

 

[ihawk in FWB]

2 different broods of cicadas will emerge this Summer, a very rare event. Cicadas can shoot their urine quite a ways relative to their body size, and from up in a tree they can create clouds of droplets if a large enough number of cicadas are roosting in a tree above you.
https://www.kcrg.com/2024/03/21/watch-out-cicadas-jetting-fluids-this-summer/

That's my kink

 

[The Tradition]

Thank you. And I am a hater because of the noise. But now I appreciate their part in the ecosystem.

I find the noise they make to be soothing. Great for a summer afternoon nap in the hammock.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

I find the noise they make to be soothing. Great for a summer afternoon nap in the hammock.

Well, I don't when I want to sleep with the windows open or when camping

 

[noleclone2]

 

[lucas80]

I find the noise they make to be soothing. Great for a summer afternoon nap in the hammock.

Seems like a recipe for getting coated in cicada urine.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

I find the noise they make to be soothing. Great for a summer afternoon nap in the hammock.

My tinnitus makes it sound like there are locusts everywhere, all the time. Iowa City council has addressed this problem by cutting down every tree in Iowa City...

 

[RollingBallofButcherKnives]

Are they Russian cicadas? Important detail….

 

[MeetTheFerentzes]

I hear this same thing every year. That's it's a 17 year cicada hatch...again.
And, I never notice anything different.
It seems, that from the first time I heard about them, it's an every year thing.

There is a difference between periodical cicadas and the annual cicadas.

The latter are known as "harvest flies;" you might not ever see them and only hear them at night starting mid-late summer; many consider it a pleasant night sound.

The former are broods that emerge every 13-17 years in different parts of the country, and when they do it is a biblical-type plague in which the little suckers can produce deafening noise all day.

Billions of bugs: Spring cicada invasion to be biggest since 1803

Two broods of periodical cicadas will emerge together in the Midwest this year. They're noisy, but there's no need for alarm.

www.columbiamissourian.com

 

[MeetTheFerentzes]

I find the noise they make to be soothing. Great for a summer afternoon nap in the hammock.

There are no periodical cicadas in Florida. The pleasant noise you hear comes from annual cicadas.

The OP is referring to the largest emergence of periodical cicadas in North America in over 200 years, due to one of the largest 13-year and one of the largest 17-year broods emerging the same year (late April or early May, mostly in Iowa-Illinois-Missouri). There is absolutely nothing pleasant about their noise.

 

[sober_teacher]

I hear this same thing every year. That's it's a 17 year cicada hatch...again.
And, I never notice anything different.

Well, I certainly noticed a few years back - in the heavily wooded portions of Jester Park they were deafening.

If you live in a sparsely wooded area you're not going to notice them as much.

 

[lucas80]

Residents east of Columbia, SC, are calling the police due to the noise.
https://apnews.com/article/noisy-cicadas-south-carolina-police-39f2bd760a51c8c1d28d88b12473840e

 

[McLovin32]

Residents east of Columbia, SC, are calling the police due to the noise.
https://apnews.com/article/noisy-cicadas-south-carolina-police-39f2bd760a51c8c1d28d88b12473840e

I can't help but just assume that anyone that calls the police about this is a freaking idiot.

 

[jasonrann]

I can't help but just assume that anyone that calls the police about this is a freaking idiot.