The Insane Biology of: The Cicada

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@j-davis7290 Месяц назад

I love that their whole strategy is show up, get naked, be loud, and go back to sleep for over a decade. I aspire to be so free

@carternelson4547 Месяц назад

Underrated comment😂😂

@helloyes2288 Месяц назад

they die after fucking

@murdock8068 29 дней назад

Oddly. I do the same thing..

@rjcc7989 29 дней назад

The wolrd can change alot in 17 years. You risk having a parking lot built over you.

@yoursexualizedgrandparents6929 29 дней назад

Go back to sleep? I think you mean go back to sleep forever.

@mohdrazif777 Месяц назад

I am from Malaysia. On February 2008, cicadas emerged in extremely large number and swarmed the town I was living. And they were super duper loud. One day I was walking on a bridge, then I heard their sound. The sound keeps getting louder and louder, then the flying cicada hit me in the face. The hit nearly made me lose balance. Some weeks later, they died in masses, and we had to sweep them for hours in many days because they were just too many. It was a unique experience for young me back then.

@GiacomoCarali Месяц назад

hi 'from Malaysia", I'm dad

@LetsTalkAboutPrepping Месяц назад

My favorite part of this is that you used the words super duper. I'm glad that's a universal phrase. Can you remember where you picked that up culturally, or is it a self apparent rhyme for the word super?

@mohdrazif777 Месяц назад

@@LetsTalkAboutPrepping pretty sure my dad said that.

@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x Месяц назад

This reminds me when a Lucanus cervus [don't know it's English name and won't look it up] hit me on my forehead whole biking once. Luckily I was decelerating near a junction and he was OK. (I love them and also help them as I can, they are so cool and beautiful.)

@alexanderlevakin9001 Месяц назад

@@LetsTalkAboutPreppinghaha, in Russia there are "супер-пупер", pronunciate it like "super-pupper" with "u" like in "you", not like in "upper"

@ajrodriguez1043 Месяц назад

Short story time: I grew up in Illinois and one spring when I was 9, I claimed a cicada attacked me. After sundown, one cicada kept flying around my head, smacking into me, and falling on the floor just to fly right back up at me. Other thing was it's abdomen was missing, and at 9 years old this scared me shitless. After watching this, I now realize I wasn't attacked, I was just hit by a bug doing shrooms and flying.

@LuhJ.T 19 дней назад

Off shrooms is crazy 😭🤣🤣🤣

@NewYoutuber1111 19 дней назад

I’m here in Edwardsville right now my back yard it’s 2 trees and they are everywhere loud

@nisaabrookz 9 дней назад

That zombie fungus makes the abdomen go missing I think

@Dr.Snooze-gt5yg 6 дней назад

The circadia was going you would see it and step on then and put them out of their pain instantly since they didn't have a way to escape the pain they were born into I once took out a pair of suici.dal birds on a road that waited for me in my lane and flew up right before into the front of my car Irony... that's why Mars

@ghostdoodles 2 дня назад

What a nightmare, a stoned bug, lol!

@stormyskyz4251 Месяц назад

My daughter saved an injured one a couple years ago (she was 7). She fell in love with that silly thing. Rip Robby, best cicada ever

@LemonVR78 Месяц назад

Rip Robby☹️☹️

@exoplanet11 28 дней назад

When she is 20, Robby's children will emerge. (or perhaps 24)

@edmartin875 27 дней назад

@@exoplanet11 You are one sick puppy.

@Ken-fh4jc 23 дня назад

That’s adorable

@SonoftheWars 21 день назад

To Robby!

@snickersmyknickers5120 Месяц назад

Those poor cicadas who woke up on the 16th year probably felt like the most loneliest bunch in the world.

@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x Месяц назад

I bet they had a server case of existential crysis. Poor fellas.

@realscience Месяц назад

like when you wake up at a sleepover before everyone else and have to awkwardly wait around for all your friends to wake up but this time its for a whole year and also you are a bug

@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x Месяц назад

@@realscience ... And you have no chance of living that long, which makes it worse.

@realscience Месяц назад

@@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x definitely makes it more awkward

@henryzhang7873 Месяц назад

@@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x cryosleepover

@katibarrett8779 Месяц назад

Born and raised in Arizona, which has cicadas every year. To me, their noise is the sound of summer. As a kid I would collect their husks. I thought they were beautiful.

@victoriaeads6126 Месяц назад

I collected them as a kid, too, in Pennsylvania. I heard them every summer, too. There must be yearly cicadas even in the places where the broods emerge, because I didn't even learn about the brood emergence until the last decade or so. I live in Virginia now, so it should be pretty epic. The last big brood emergence was so loud that from my deck it sounded like a 747 waiting to take off...if I was standing on the runway. Most of them were at least 50 yards away, too.

@user-et2dx5du7e Месяц назад

same here in japan.there are several species too, the easiest to catch happened to be the ones most likely to piss in your hands

@artemis7273 Месяц назад

Same here as well. I’m from virginia and I can only recall a few years i didn’t hear them at all during the summer

@Jon-bv7nl Месяц назад

Born and raised in Louisiana and even I hear the cicadas EVERY night

@Nefville Месяц назад

In Kentucky we have cicadas every year. Its funny to me how every spring people act like its the first time a brood has emerged in a generation. Speaking of husks, who here used to hang them on your shirt? They are very good at sticking to things. Cool insect.

@notfittobeking Месяц назад

Loved the shout-out to Dr. Chris Maier!! I worked as a summer research assistant next to his laboratory at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. He identified a couple flies for me. I was always blown away by his vast knowledge of many types of insects. One of the coolest entomologists I have had the pleasure of knowing even if briefly.

@realscience Месяц назад

That is awesome!

@jimellis2118 Месяц назад

I'm in my 70s, in the 1970s I had been driving all day, intent on camping in east Tennessee where cicadas were everywhere. Went up a forestry road just after dark, too tired to find a quieter place. Point is, I lay on the ground on top a sleeping bag waiting for the noise to cease. I tried to understand why some of them were chirping in unison when finally they ALL chirped at the same instant. It was followed by profound silence for a few seconds. Freaked me out. They didn't repeat this .

@user-se8lh1ys4g 20 дней назад

Good story I’m actually frightened please tell me more stories of your travels good sir

@rrai1999 18 дней назад

The sound of other male cicadas calling tends to cause them to make their call too. If you imitate the sound at one he might do it back! I've had this happen a few times

@Tehvoodoo19 16 дней назад

spontaneous synchronicity

@inou2222 16 дней назад

I live close to Knoxville and haven't seen any here yet.

@oneidawolf776 Месяц назад

There is a story in my peoples oral history about how the onondaga nation of the haudenosaunee went through a famine. Their village and crops were burnt and they had no food the people were in turmoil. At this time the cicadas emerged and they ate cicadas for sustenance. To this day they are thankful to them for getting them through those hard times. They are important to us for giving us life when we may not have had it if we had not had their sustenance. (Edit: The Onondaga nation is in New York State close to Syracuse and in their language the word they use for cicada is " Ogweñ•yó'da' ")

@octosquatch. Месяц назад

That's a cool story

@Shmethan Месяц назад

Thats awesome, thank you for sharing. Im glad that they made it through the famine

@adreabrooks11 Месяц назад

Very interesting! I was just thinking of how many creatures eat them, despite the fact that they seem to have colouration similar to so many poisonous or venomous species. It made me wonder if they were edible by humans. I figure: if so many creatures like them, they can't be too bad! That said, I'll probably stick to fishing and eating the invasive weeds in my yard, and letting the cicadas have their fun.🙂

@ooooneeee Месяц назад

That's amazing ❤.

@MrSirlulzalot Месяц назад

Awesome story 👏 🙌! ❤

@MrsBrit1 Месяц назад

I got married during the 17 years emergence. We had an outdoor wedding. 😂 I couldn't have planned that better, tbh, because I love the little dumb dumbs! They're awesome!

@Pseedholm Месяц назад

Was it in Massachusetts? I was at an outdoor wedding the same day 😂

@mrjoe332 Месяц назад

You gotta renew your vows in the same manner, just so everyone can suffer again.

@OOOOOO-dx7zu Месяц назад

@@Pseedholm maybe you got married to each other

@LLS710 Месяц назад

Yeah but don't they bite? I was always told (in Missouri) that they have a nasty bit.

@maxgucciardi4507 Месяц назад

@@LLS710 they dont have mouths. They come out for a few days so they can mate and then they all die.

@DaddyWarlocks Месяц назад

Houstonian here. I love cicadas. I love the sound, I think they look and live so neat, and I always figured such a weird bug had to be good for it's environment. S tier insect.

@davey_wonder 29 дней назад

As a young kid 17 years ago I was enamored with these guys. I would go find them every night and bring them on my grandpas screen patio to emerge on his small potted trees and then in the morning I would come out to find them all patiently waiting with their old shells to be released. I remember one time when I was searching for nymphs and I stepped on one a tiny bit. I cried so much… I have been a cicada nerd my whole life, and to this day I still take walks every summer to search for those sleepy little nymphs that need help finding a comfy place to molt. These guys are so important to the world as we know it. Let’s all love and appreciate these little critters!! (Even though they can be obnoxious)

@PortRhouse Месяц назад

That fungus segment is one of the craziest things I have ever heard in my life. Zombie cicadas tripping balls. What a world we live in.

@anhenry2998 Месяц назад

Ok it wasnt just me hahaha

@cosmicraysshotsintothelight Месяц назад

Take some to your local college and get "some dude" to synthesize the PA molecule.

@modoc852 Месяц назад

I’ve been smoking cicada asses all my life and dining on the healthy females uncooked like my elders taught us, no mystery here.

@larrytate1657 Месяц назад

They most likely lack the brain receptors to get the tripping effect. Even some animals lack enough receptors to trip.

@outdoorfr3ak Месяц назад

lol have you been to the cities recently?? You're describing modern homeless

@user-nu3nx6dj5v Месяц назад

It's so refreshing to see nature documentaries that are informative, straight to the point, and not flooded with forced suspense. Instant subscribe.😊

@truthsRsung Месяц назад

Forced Suspense? Like "Insane" in the Title of a uTube video? Right. Don't you think we should reserve that term for People having a tough time with Reality?

@malrec Месяц назад

Yeah way better than that anta canada charlatan.

@bj6515 Месяц назад

Plus informative. According to Stormy, Cicada sex lasts 58 minutes longer than Little Donny can manage.

@kevinmedeiros3535 27 дней назад

Same

@malrec 25 дней назад

@@bj6515 Which is 59 minutes and 59 seconds longer than you can last according to your daughter.

@regalthelion Месяц назад

I'm from Chicago, where we're getting our 17 year cicadas this year. We had some come out in 2020, 4 years early. Can't wait to see how many we get this year. It's gonna be awesome.

@mikebarushok5361 27 дней назад

Chicago cicadas are one of my earliest memories. 63 years ago.

@jteach9124 Месяц назад

The amount of time and energy put into this video is very very evident. Respect

@slamrock17 Месяц назад

I once went fishing but forgot bait. Good thing it was a cicada year. I had enough bait for all day on one little bush.

@granpastrange Месяц назад

I'll have to keep this in mind

@ClickDecision Месяц назад

find a hobby that doesn't involve stabbing fish in the face

@eauneau Месяц назад

😂

@IrieRogue Месяц назад

Toes work equally well 👍

@dawoof5119 Месяц назад

i caught a bunch in my yard the last few days im saving them 4 bait!

@luckycoulon1417 Месяц назад

While very informative, this video does have a few inaccuracies. First off cicadas do not drink xylem, xylem isn’t a liquid but rather one of the tissues plants use to transport liquids within them. They’re like little tubes running up the length of a plant. The cicadas use their specialized mouth parts to pierce the xylem and drink from it. Also, while cicadas do have a unique method of making sound, they claim all crickets and katydids produce sound by rubbing their back legs together when in fact both of these animals rub their wings together to produce sound, no legs involved! Grasshoppers on the other hand do use their legs, but don’t rub them together, instead rubbing each leg against a special part of their wings

@luckycoulon1417 Месяц назад

The video is otherwise very cool and filled with great information! Thank you for organizing all of this so succinctly

@hellzshotgun Месяц назад

@luckycoulon1417 How do you know so much? I'm just curious.

@billkissick6268 Месяц назад

Came here to say the same re:sounds. 21:09 literally shows sound being made by rubbing wings together, not legs, as she says "legs only." Otherwise, very cool vid.

@skeeter197140 Месяц назад

And the fact that she says Brood 8, when the map key shows Brood XIII or 13 (4:54).

@A-xv5fb Месяц назад

What are you talking bout I'm drinking some phloem right now 😂

@pype720 Месяц назад

This is the most comprehensive video I've seen about cicadas. It connects everything and I particularly like the references to the scientific studies for how they've figured this out. Very well sequenced, explained and dense for a packed 20 minutes with everything you'd want to know. I also really appreciated the breakdown of the species.

@Radhaun Месяц назад

I actually love cicada songs. There is one song in particular that I really associate with safety and home. It helped keep me from feeling homesick when I studied abroad. These can definitely be terrifying when they're in your house, but I am truly stoked to not only live when the double emergence happens, but to be in an area where it's happening!

@georgejones5019 Месяц назад

Cicadas are certainly one of the more interesting insects. Partly because they're so elusive, which makes studying them difficult. Also one of my favorite bug poke'mon.

@SplitZeroOne Месяц назад

for me, they are second, after the dragon fly

@Brambrew Месяц назад

Nincada, Ninjask and Shedinja Very cool 'mons indeed

@sephikong8323 Месяц назад

@Brambrew Also despite it's name, I really think Kriketune looks a LOT closer to a Cicada than to a cricket

@willverschneider1102 Месяц назад

I used Ninjask in my Omega Ruby playthrough. A very underrated pokemon who could outspeed and OHKO the Delta Episode Deoxys if you're not careful.

@unrealengine1enhanced Месяц назад

thats weird, i can catch as many as i want, during "molt time" when they come up from the ground to shed their skins and gain their wings, that's the best time to collect. you wait till the wings pump out and dry, and they are done being upside down, etc. it's about patience and dedication, my friend.

@Benassiesto Месяц назад

Cicadas get a bad rap. Think about how many great summer memories you had with the cicadas providing background music.

@dannyfar7989 Месяц назад

Sleeples noisy nights only are fun if you don't want to sleep

@PunxsutawneyPhill Месяц назад

@@dannyfar7989 That sound used to help me sleep, before AC and closed windows.

@dannyfar7989 Месяц назад

@@PunxsutawneyPhill Cicadasound is quite intense in character and amount. All intense things can be liked but are hard to bear when unwanted. You can take this examole as a Metaphor: I find it pleasant to snack carolina Repaer chillis, I also don't wonder why others don't. You like the sound of cicadas and hopefully don't wonder now why others don't. Hot Chillis having the rep of beeing unpleasant and Carolina reaper not beeing edible for many doesn't mean it has a bad rep, it means it has a realistic rep. I see Cicadas noise very similar to that but im contrast to chillis they are forced upon people who are very sensitive to them.

@user-vk7cp1op9p 27 дней назад

The sound of cicadas for me, is the sound of Sallisaw, Oklahoma in the summer, announcing it's hot today, and the day, short, and hurry to seize the day, before it's gone!

@brianwright9514 Месяц назад

The noise is wild. The male song was expected, but the constant "whirr" that they make up in the trees is completely new to me.

@leosorghum6867 Месяц назад

It's not summer 'til the cicada sings

@JohnnyUmphress Месяц назад

Yeah, kind of like Ball Park Franks. I loved hearing these every summer growing up in Texas.

@oddoneout1835 28 дней назад

Out early this year.

@tredd4997 26 дней назад

@oddoneout1835 those are periodical cicadas. Late summer cicadas are green/gray

@vxy357 23 дня назад

That's a good way of putting it.

@adisonnanet Месяц назад

Just here to praise you for putting the temperatures both in Celsius and in Fahrenheit.

@SplitZeroOne Месяц назад

we should all switch to kelvin

@luluobi8565 Месяц назад

fahrenheit forever❤️

@Kepora1 Месяц назад

You mean incorrect and correct.

@SpecialEDy Месяц назад

0° to 100° the temperature range for humans if you use Fahrenheit. Celsius is just an arbitrary system for water, basically irrelevant.

@Kepora1 Месяц назад

@@SpecialEDy Celsius is what Europeans use. And Europe is fancy speak for "Incorrect".

@narcissisticweb2119 24 дня назад

13.15 I live in a hot country under pine trees. So when they start, you can't hear yourself speak, but I ❤️ the sound so much that it does not bother me. When October comes and they stop, I have to put an old fan on, for the noise because I can't fall asleep without my cicadas choir. 😂

@Just1Nora 20 дней назад

I saw the best bumper sticker! It says, "Y'all mind if I scream a bit?" With a picture of a cicada on it. As someone in the southeast USA, deep in cicada territory, I love it. Signs of the season change are when you see holes burst through the leaf litter, cicada nymph shells EVERYWHERE, and finally the screaming intensifying at dusk. As much as their chirps drive me nuts, it wouldn't feel like summer without them. I prefer the sound of the toads and tree frogs singing at night after a summer rain, though.

@stax6092 Месяц назад

Man, an ovapositor made of metal hardened enough to dig into wood? That's so great, someone has to include something like that into a sci-fi somewhere.

@balsalmalberto8086 25 дней назад

Pretty insane they are like wolverine in the bug world

@FlameWaffle 15 дней назад

Kinda starship troopers' brain bug

@wisdomleader85 Месяц назад

Interesting. I heard if you put 3301 cicadas together, they would form a set of puzzles.

@mothgirl326 Месяц назад

I'm certain this is a reference of some sort but I'm not sure what

@restlesssheep2453 Месяц назад

@@mothgirl326 A series of puzzles originating in 4chan.

@isaacmccarty1564 Месяц назад

Underrated lmao

@williamowens2063 Месяц назад

@@mothgirl326 It's some puzzle a company put on 4chan.

@zarynt1089 Месяц назад

The result also forms a new SCP.

@pawpkitty 20 дней назад

I had these emerge a couple times when I was a kid and I honestly think of them fondly. They are great fishing bait, their song reminds me of blistering summer days. They are an abundant food source for so many animals.

@joseherrera8208 20 дней назад

Its gonna be a loud time this June! 🤘🏼

@johnnymerchant 4 дня назад

We don't have periodical cicadas down here, just the normal seasonal ones, but I love them. They are some of the most chill and cute insects, and the sound is so nostalgic and symbolic of summer. Adorable. I'd love to see a periodical brood one day.

@tontj Месяц назад

Here in Japan. We only have yearly Cicadas and they are LOUD. But they are harmless insect and just like the video mentioned, they are a good nutrienta for the ecosystem

@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x Месяц назад

And their sound is s crucial part of every live action or anime Japanese movie and series set in the summer. I think it would run my immersion if I wasn't hearing that sound. 😁

@Shmethan Месяц назад

@@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x that sound is absolutely attached to evangelion in my head 😅 even if I hear them in real life regularly

@kitony Месяц назад

Agreed, taped them sometime back in Nagoya. I noticed though that the same cicada make different calls! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F7DEn8JXVaI.htmlsi=xEwF1yDDh-NeY0XT

@Antymatters Месяц назад

Thats damm impressive 17 years. Very few insects can even dream of getting to that ripe old age, wonder if it has similar internal mechanisms ants use to extend lifespan

@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x Месяц назад

Yep but they aren't doing that much. So if I want to get philosophical, do they really live? A vagabond world traveling freedom fighter lover poet that dies at 30 in his tenth war lives much longer and fuller life than a couch potato living in his parents' basement all his life that dies at 65, not less. Sorry for the tangent. 😅

@Shmethan Месяц назад

@@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x no thats a good point. Conversely, as bugs, what's the measure of them "living" more or less. Theyre accomplishing their evolutionary goal of growing and reproducing, even if it takes 17 years of living in a hole. Maybe they reach nervana in a meditative state down there

@johnfox69 Месяц назад

@@Shmethan Nah. They reach nirvana when they are in the fungal infected sex crazed zombie state.

@truthsRsung Месяц назад

@@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x ... No Species lives Tangent to a Warring one for long. Leave it to the ones who grow up in their parent's library to write down "harmony" and "eradicate" in the same Legal Document (Russian Thistle) moments in history before they saved the cattle industry in the Dust Bowl. It's those Potatoes that come up with such silly ideas that people think are worth dieing for, rather than living for.

$@fractode$

@fractode Месяц назад

Excellent video, well-produced, with great voiceover. Thanks!

@darkcornholio Месяц назад

I think the most interesting part of this video was finding out that squirrels are apparently omnivores.

@genericname2747 Месяц назад

The interesting thing about nature is that no animal is strictly carnivorous or herbivorous. Many farmers have seen horses and cows eat baby chickens, and crocodiles like fruit.

@C0yf1sh Месяц назад

I said to myself “so that’s how mammals survived after the dinosaur killing meteor” they probably ate those big ass bugs and each-other! 😅

@j.metcalf7890 Месяц назад

Wow

@brad238899 Месяц назад

There are many herbivores that much on meat here and there. Scientists have found that deer will sometimes eat baby birds out of their nests. Horses have been known to eat chicks as well.

@megabigblur Месяц назад

For an undergrad ecology course we put up camera traps with fake nests and commercially purchased zebra finch eggs to simulate songbird nests, the only thing we caught on camera actually eating the eggs was a deer.

@JaJa-ms7ex Месяц назад

Hey, plant biologist here. I love your videos andI've been following your channel for a long time now, I was there for some of your very early videos. I think you do amazing work! This is my first comment under one of your videos and I feel kinda bad that I wanted to leave it just to correct you. So firstly I want to say that your videos are one of the best (if not the best) among those that deal with biology. Anyway I think there is something wrong with the way you use the terms xylem and phloem. They describe the tissues that transport water and chemicals from either roots or shoots. But as far as I know, those terms are not used to describe the liquid themselves. And I know that some tissues can have a liquid form, like blood, but the difference here boils down to composition - blood contains living cells while liquids in phloem and xylem don't. That said, English is not my native language. But I've read some scientific papers on plants and I've never seen anyone use the terms xylem and phloem to describe anything else than vascular tissues. But maybe im just nitpisking, botany terms are sometimes convoluted and this little mistake doesn't change how great is this video :D

@greatone6196 Месяц назад

You are completely correct about xylem and phloem not being the fluids. It's like blood vs blood vessels

@khaibutton Месяц назад

Yes, they are both called sap, but the one that flows through the xylem is xylem sap and the sap that flows through the phloem is phloem sap.

@toonasag Месяц назад

As a botany student, I wa thinking about that too.

@notmegan8799 Месяц назад

i came to the comments to see if anyone else pointed this out!

@user-pz3cx3zf5b Месяц назад

Yes, I totally agree! I'm just an A-level Biology student but I thought it was a little off.

@lofimiata Месяц назад

What no video does justice is the sound. When they chorus in the thousands it is truly awe inspiring and alien. They sound NOTHING like annual cicadas.

@extragoogleaccount6061 Месяц назад

Definitely sounds like an alien invasion. Something slightly metallic about it too

@gem53leo 24 дня назад

It sounds like the ocean to me.

@hopedodson8058 Месяц назад

Really great video! So informative and easily understood. Good work! 👍🏼

@DarkSky2084 Месяц назад

very informative, thanks for the video. I'm in mid Missouri and I'm exited watching them come out of the ground :)

@SeanA099 Месяц назад

I’m from Virginia and I’ve been fascinated by the 17 year cicadas since I first saw them in 2004. I got to see them again in 2021, and they were absolutely everywhere. I literally had to rake them off our front porch and lawn because they covered everything. I can’t wait to see them again

@KimFareseed Месяц назад

What? Nincada is evolving!

@SubaruLove Месяц назад

This is great. It answered so many questions. Thank you.

@shavoshaco2402 23 дня назад

This is a very well done science video, the only thing I remember about cicadas was them swarming chicago in 2007, but ur video got me understanding them on a whole new level thanks for the quality post

@Taricus Месяц назад

All the ones in my neighborhood are M. Septemdecula. They are loud, but the rising and falling in unison is almost soothing. It also feels nostalgic to hear, because the last time you heard it was 17 years ago and it brings back nice memories of warm springs and summers ☺ Right now I am 44, so the last time it sounded like this, I was 27.... Back then, I was young and had a black lab/german shephard mix that has since passed from old age. It reminds me of when we would play in the kiddy pool that I bought him, rides in the car on cool nights after playing in the sun all day, and playing video games all night until the roosters started crowing in the morning. I wonder if the cicadas are the reason some of my friends are talking about how they wish they could go back to those days lately. Maybe it's almost subliminal, because the sounds of the cicadas remind us all of back then.

@jackbeckley5513 5 дней назад

I have seen them both with a W and a P in their wing they were so bad you didn't dare try to rototiller your garden when the roadside Parks had water pump drinking fountain they were full of them all the ducks and geese you can hear it where they eating them

@Taricus 4 дня назад

@@jackbeckley5513 I have a bunch in the stairwell in my apt complex and behind my couch under a window. I have to keep clearing them out. They also get in my kitchen window and die in my sink LOL!

@victoriaeads6126 Месяц назад

As a kid, I always wondered what creature left those weird husks clinging to every vertical surface in spring. I heard the cicadas, but I didn't associate the two phenomena until I was a bit older.

@YoTratoYTrato 5 дней назад

Wow, such an excellent job with this documentary, so studied and well done! Great job! Subscribed!😊

@jameshose5043 Месяц назад

great vid! great writing and execution

@FutureAIDev2015 Месяц назад

I strongly prefer Patreon plugs over ads! 😊

@realscience Месяц назад

Same - This is an experiment to see if plugging our own Patreon can replace sponsorships sometimes. It would sure be nice. Time will tell if the economics of it make sense!

@FutureAIDev2015 Месяц назад

@@realscience I guess the question then becomes, based on what someone told me on Reddit, sure that solves the issue with funding creators, at least partially if not fully, but does that solve the problem with funding the platform itself? If not, how would that be potentially solved?

@michaelj.beglinjr.2804 Месяц назад

Interesting + educational = worth watching, so thank you for posting this.

@angela8351 28 дней назад

Unbelievable!!!! I remember being intrigued by these when I was a child. It was always special to find one, even an empty shell. So magical and mysterious.

@philippedefechereux8740 27 дней назад

Very well done with nice tinge of humor. Thank you.

@nicoa4094 Месяц назад

Hey @realscience, keep up the interesting videos. I just wanted to let you know a little error in the video. At 1:26 and several times after 9:22 you mentioned that cicadas feed on xylem, which you call the liquid/fluid from tree roots. However, xylem is actually a type of vascular tissue in the roots, stem, and leaves of vascular plants that mainly transport water and nutrients from the soil to different parts of the plants. So, technically, cicadas feed on the xylem fluid/sap from the tree's roots not on the xylem itself. Similarly, phloem is also a vascular tissue that transports phloem fluid/sap. Hope this helps, cheers!

@IndyJay53 Месяц назад

I was also confused by that and thought I was taught something wrong in school.

@urhmelan7137 Месяц назад

Thank you for covering may favorite insect

@Neloish Месяц назад

Also my favorite food.

@urhmelan7137 Месяц назад

@@Neloish btw does enyone know any guides for Europe

@reachthesingularity Месяц назад

@@Neloish nom nom nom. I love them fried with rice 🙂‍↔️

@gd_thirtyfour Месяц назад

may😅 the 4th be with you

@nathanbusch3953 Месяц назад

They make great fishing bait

@kylemiller9040 16 дней назад

These are one of my very favorite animals, and I learned an incredible amount from this video. Thank you for this!

@gameoflife4190 Месяц назад

I just discovered this channel and I got to say, it is so good😊👍🏽

@victoriaeads6126 Месяц назад

I grew up in SE Pennsylvania, and it seemed like we listened to cicadas every summer. I didn't realize the brood concentrations happened until perhaps the last decade. The brood emergence is VERY VERY loud, but they are interesting little creatures, and harmless.

@marymcmahan5603 Месяц назад

The last time they emerged, I had to walk from my back door to my car(10 feet away) carrying an umbrella. I could hear them hitting the umbrella.

@tomsparks6099 Месяц назад

Hey neighbor! (also in SE PA) -- there was a bad car wreck in Nockamixon park in 2021 where the cicadas were so bad. I think the girl lost control of her car when one of them flew into her car window making her lose control.

@erenyaeger5 Месяц назад

You're videos are very informative. Makes me learn so much. Thank you so much❤️❤️❤️

@jteach9124 Месяц назад

What an incredible and informative video of cicadas. How wonderful of a product when you break down the details accordingly with no agenda.

@anniecouture3339 23 дня назад

Wow! Really loved this! Thank you!

@hhollo0127 Месяц назад

Very cool video! constructive criticism: make sure to double check the definitions of terms you use in the video, xylem is not a liquid and phloem is not sap, xylem and phloem are the tissues that conduct those liquids, it'd be like calling a person's vessels/arteries their blood

@JeremyDahl Месяц назад

Very kind response! 🫡

@greatone6196 Месяц назад

Xylem isnt the fluid. The fluid is transported in the xylem

@channelfour6098 Месяц назад

So what is the xylem?

@someOneInComments Месяц назад

Xylem is a fluid... It's basically anything water soluble..

@penneymoore6220 29 дней назад

Thank you for this video! Periodic cicada is one of my favorite animals.

@GuilleFunes_ Месяц назад

I have been recording cicada sounds lately, they are awesome. Wonderful video, very informative. Thank you from El Salvador

@inmydarkesthour2278 Месяц назад

Cicada sounds when summer comes always brings me huge nostalgia of summers when I was young in Italy 😞💔

@sabuhiasadli6083 Месяц назад

Thank you for your educational videos, keep it coming 👍

@DJJonPattrsn22 Месяц назад

THANK YOU for this Superbly informative presentation!

@bigsmiler5101 Месяц назад

Excellent narration. Spoken like someone who cares and is fascinated with the topic.

@artawhirler Месяц назад

When I was a kid growing up in Massachusetts, I used to collect and save the larval husks that I would find clinging to the bark of trees in my backyard. I had no idea what kind of creature they were, but I still thought they were super cool. 😊

@scottlowson3609 Месяц назад

I was just talking about cicadas a couple of days ago,my phone was listening and it told my tablet so now I'm enjoying this video

@azilbean Месяц назад

I learned an incredible amount of information from this video; Thank you. I live near Atlanta, Georgia, and have grown up to the sound of them permeating my every summer. I thought I knew a lot about them...turns out I was wrong. Thank you for this video!

@miladelemental3474 Месяц назад

Thank you for making this amazing priceless videos!👏🙏

@Frizzank15 Месяц назад

First time one flew into my house I thought it was a bird! I'm in Massachusetts, don't see them very often!😮

@AquazWild Месяц назад

May I ask where do you get these beautiful clips? Keep up the great work!!

@cloud101787 19 дней назад

Grew up in the the NW Fl panhandle and I loved collecting their shed skin lol.

@shaheennazerali7561 Месяц назад

This was so fun to watch, how technology is inspired by studying what already exists. Great video!

@ProfPoindexter1968 24 дня назад

I was stationed on Okinawa in 1970, when the cicadas emerged. I lived just off the end of the main runway of Kadena Air Force Base. That year, there were two SR-71 planes stationed there. When they took off, we couldn't hear anything. But we had a tree full of cicadas just outside our window. When they got going, they drowned out the SR-71s!

@KarenPoppins Месяц назад

I will speak to my manager if these insects carry on being too noisy!

@crystalr7153 Месяц назад

What a wonderful video! Thank you!

@richardgreeson924 Месяц назад

Thank you for this informative video. I live in an area where the cicadas are emerging. This video has helped me to understand their life cycle.

@glennmiller9759 Месяц назад

First, I want to say that I enjoy your excellent videos a lot. That said, I do sometimes have (hopefully constructive) critiques. One in this video is that xylem is a vascular plant tissue that conducts water. Maybe you meant that the cicadas drink xylem water??

@NewMessage Месяц назад

Gettin' some and then spending a few weeks screaming at the sky, waiting for death to take me? Hunh. Turns out I do have a 'spirit animal' after all.

@StartouchArts 27 дней назад

I live at the absolute FARTHEST north section in Wisconsin where Brood XIII will emerge, but I still hope I get to hear the noisy gits a lot, I have this weird love for the sound they make, it makes me feel nostalgic.

@heavylids Месяц назад

Commenting from Nashville TN. They are POPPING OFF here! Such an incredible amount anywhere you look, whether in town or the countryside. Incredibly loud variety of choruses. Never witnessed anything like this. Having fun watching birds pick them off in mid air and seeing them clumsily fly into pedestrians. 😂 What a wild event!

@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x Месяц назад

Nice video overall. Between the eclipse and this monster cicada invasion, you North Americans are spoiled, not to mention the two Godzilla movies close together. However. At 13:35 you said crickets and katydids stridulate by rubbing their back legs together, but in reality, in crickets and katydids a file on one wing is rubbed by a scraper on the other wing to produce the 'chirp'. That's a bummer. You make a couple of mistakes in all your videos recently, and usually you mix obvious and widely known facts. It only annoyed me because the rest is so well put together and your narration (which is very nice from the beginning) is improving. (It also irritated me in kindergarten when another kid said they used they legs. Or they mixed them and grasshoppers.)

@joeharris3878 Месяц назад

They were called "locusts" when we were kids.

@Bobanator23 21 день назад

Those are entirely different animals buddy

@joeharris3878 21 день назад

@@Bobanator23 Oh? Really? Thanks, ever so much.

@Bobanator23 21 день назад

@@joeharris3878 no problem, cicadas don’t eat anything before dying but locusts eat a lot of stuff

@FisherofMen77777 16 дней назад

Yeah who ever called them locusts was wrong. Sorry you were lied to

@FisherofMen77777 16 дней назад

It is important to differentiate cicadas from locusts since they are two very different groups of insects. While locusts look like grasshoppers and are ravenous consumers of plants, cicadas are much different in the amounts and parts of plants they feed upon.

@zeake13 Месяц назад

The most informative video on cicadas I have ever seen. Well done.

@cerhfhrow4122 Месяц назад

Crickets don't make noise with their legs, they use their wings

@mattcipa6717 Месяц назад

These some weird ass bugs bruh 💀

@joeyRaven201 Месяц назад

How old are u 10? 12?

@Kakuren Месяц назад

Living in the country and hearing these for the first time was wild. The sheer volume is crazy

@bryantnojang709 Месяц назад

@@joeyRaven201this comment was irrelevant

@MEGABUMSTENCH Месяц назад

@@joeyRaven201 why so curious, you trying to groom them?

@joeyRaven201 Месяц назад

@MEGABUMSTENCH no but he is reacting like a baby

@myronforrestier-cl5gs Месяц назад

This video is amazing. I enjoy ALL OF THESE VIDEOS. Can you please do a video on the swarming termites that come out in Louisiana from April-June. Me and my kids have been trying to do research on them but we can’t find much about them.

@MTHead587 4 дня назад

I love them you hear them during summer it feels like there are more calling during really hot days it’s a comfort sound for me 😊 especially now as I’m living in up state NY hearing them here is not often and when I do it reminds me of my home growing up in Missouri

@ruredi4me621 Месяц назад

Excellent Overview...thanks!

@haunterbby 12 дней назад

I live in STL and this has been one of the most amazing seasons ever! Also, this info is amazing!! 🖤

@jondoe9581 Месяц назад

Very interesting. Thank you RS

@stringlarson1247 22 дня назад

They are really blooming in Chicago now. I live in a very wooded area, and the sound is starting to get epic. The sun just came out and they are popping up from the ground and flying around. So, amazing.

@barbarawalsh4936 20 дней назад

Thank you for the interesting information about one of my favorite insects. When I was la young child, my Mom used to make up stories about insects. My favorites were about caterpillars and cicadas. Her stories taught me to have a respect for nature, and the creatures around us who buzz. I love the sound of cicadas. Last year I had 4 Garden Spiders decide to make a home on my front porch. I contacted an Entomologist to find out what they were, and other information. I put up a sign, that the spiders were harmless, and requested those who came to my house to please leave them be. It may be crazy, but I talked to each one every day, and even brought them bugs they could eat. When the females died, I protected their egg sacks, by moving them out of the wind and rain. Hopefully the young survived. Guess my Mom taught me right.

@xikimunki735 25 дней назад

Thank you for this enlightening video.

@lety18chula Месяц назад

omg the shot at 13:26 it's one of the coolest things I've seen, I don't think many people can say cicadas have mated on top of their finger lol

@reggietheporpoise 25 дней назад

I remember the Brood X emergence in 2004. Super cool and super loud. I was excited to see them again in 2021, but I moved to the west coast to start a PhD just before that happened - well outside their range. You mentioned that their life cycles are useful in minimizing predators’ ability to sync up with their emergence and use them as a reliable food source. The numbers 13 and 17 being prime numbers makes that even more the case.

@dionysusfury3879 15 дней назад

This is super interesting! I am also a scientist and I heard on of them here then saw it and found this channell . Thank you this is so informative and a great way to show science to the people