maybe it was just the survivors maybe they had multiple broods every year for 13 and 17 years, then over time animals cut them down to a few broods and when animals arent used to a new food source they tend not to eat it unless they are really starving
First time i saw them was 1990...and was scared. Then in 2007 i saw them at graue mill and was,amazed. Now amazed as well. Have picked them up and thoughtvhow beautiful!
This whole thing is a little misleading. I grew up in Texas so I know a thing or two about cicadas. Cicadas emerge every year. EVERY YEAR. They grow to maturity before emerging from their burrow over a 17 year period. The emergence of cicadas is not a usual event. It will happen this year and the next after that and the next after that, etc. Not so mind-blowing when you think about it. All of these videos about the 17 year emergence is nothing more than click bait.
Evolved? In the mind of God before He created them. “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools” I used to be an atheist fool, but thankfully the Holy Spirit opened my eyes to truth.
They didn't evolve they were designed by the Lord God like that use your brain don't be stupid God gave you brain to think not to repeat what other stupids like darwin say
If the males were defending the cubs, they would be bigger than the females. Most likely they were preying on the cubs, including their own. So the females with vjs cut them off leaving them with only the androgenous females to mate with, and they had to cooperate with her in order to copulate. So females with vjs went extint.
A cicada got into my house with my 2 dogs once. It flew into a celing fan and started to shreik loudly my dogs went nuts. I remember one of them knocked everything off the dining room table trying to get it. Ive never seen them that worked up before it took em a few min to get it and kill it. My wife ran into the bedroom screaming becaze it came right for her face absolute chaos😂
They live for four weeks or so on earth above the surface and thirteen or seventeen years underground in the same earth. They emerge to fulfil one of the tasks of their life, to reproduce and lay eggs besides changing their physical identity. The time period below surface is also a life, though different from that what we perceive as life.
Gee, and I thought we human males had it rough with our genetically programmed Post Coital Crash response ... salmon have it worse than us. Much worse. 😂 💦💀
I like this episode among others. Come to think of it, mud is the least used material for nest building among birds. Besides, unlike tree- or ground-nesting, they need a vertical wall to attach. The pick of this subject is thus sufficiently interesting. Although still some part demanding further researches, his method & stance to the subject is excellent & elegant as usual. Tracing back a historical fact & knowing how an end product of time looks like is explained stepwise. By the way, among Chinese cuisines, a swallow nest on the menu. It seems the nest is created exclusively with saliva ..... I'm not particularly encouraged.
There are many cicadas in Africa. As kids we always referred to them as Christmas beetles as December was the hottest period of the year, until I learned otherwise. Although I knew about their long underground period, there they were shrieking there song out over December. Now I’m not sure if these species takes turns to come out as I can’t remember a single year we didn’t have them singing.
We traveled to SA and saw many empty ostrich eggs fashioned into all sorts of things. One was a retired dentist who make custom lamps. Ours is a lotus flower lamp, a cherished travel purchase.
Hey guys how ya doin I got a dentist appointment this morning with ocean state dental 😂😂😂 wait lemme just grab my swim gear I gotta meet with dr shrump
