Cicadas appreciation thread

>>137397324
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehmKsPWYttY

>>137397324
wiiii wii wii wiiiiiiiiiiiii

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>>137397324
Cicadas best girl
wiiiii wiiiiii wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Do you guys not have cicadas where you live or something? Worst thing about them is when they fly into your house at night and make a fucking racket until you either kill it or catch it and throw it outside.

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Cicada-chan is so cute.

>>137397917
Nope. I got crickets

>>137397917
Never seen one. Never heard one except in muh anime.

>>137397917

I once saw a cicada husk on my building's door. Shit was so Shedinja-ish.

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Tsuku tsuku boshi are cool too!

>>137397917
Seen them around couples of times, they are cool desu. Keep off unwanted poisonous insect

>>137397917
We had one of those once-in-a-decade cicada explosions a while back. We're probably due for another pretty soon.

It was hell.

>>137398169
Why do you hate them anon?

>>137398232
have you ever walked outside and everything in your yard was covered in huge insects?

>>137398360
Junebugs are worse than cicadas, though. At least cicadas don't mindlessly fly everyfuckingwhere at all hours of the day, banging on your window at all hours of the night, hitting you in the face when you try to ride your bicycle, and sneak into your house any second you open the door at night and then proceed to bang their faces against the nearest lightsource until they die.

>>137398467
Oh yeah fuck Junebugs
They just fly right into your face, they're so fucking clumsy and stupid

>>137398467
I'd rather have a junebug on my face than a cicada desu

>>137398688
>a cicada will never get on your face
>junebugs will fly into your face at least once a day during their season

Anon, your logic is flawed.

>>137398467
Pumpkin bugs/stinkbugs are the worst, they fucking exploded in NC and now it's next to impossible to keep them out of your house in the rural areas. I've come to accept it, I'll usually have a stinkbug land on my face when I'm laying in bed every night because the light from my phone. And they're fucking indestructible, you can flick them as hard as you possibly can and they always recover. You have to flush them or throw them out.

Junebugs are pretty bad, especially if you have to mow the lawn, they hit you and stick to you. Also they make riding a four wheeler outright dangerous, those fuckers are hard and if you hit one going 30+ mph you stand to risk damaging your eye. When I was a kid I used to tie floss to their legs and fly them like kites.

Cicadas are fine though, they're harmless and make the woods less scary at night because they keep everything from being quiet and spooky.

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>tfw turn on New Leaf just for the cicada sounds in the summer
It's so comfy.

>>137398831
Cicadas look uglier than junebugs though. That's all I'm saying

>>137398917
>stinkbugs
We just got them in the last 3 or so years. They weren't nearly as bad this year, at least.

Only real option is to flush them. If you toss them back outside, they just make their way back in.

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wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

>>137398917
TFW MN
TFW -40 keeps the insectoid riffraff out
TFW Being carried away by mosquitoes in the summer and boxelders in the fall

>>137399105
Isn't the mosquito your state bird?

Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin

>>137399044
I heard that they were introduced to feed off of the kudzu beetles, not sure if it's true or not but I can say I haven't seen nearly as many kudzu beetles as I did 5 or so years ago. Those were annoying too because they were attracted to the color white so they always swarmed my car. I was fine with the stinkbugs until I found one inside the receiver of my AK, after that I declared war.

>>137399105
fuck mosquitoes
>NC summer
>geocaching
>looking for a cache in some swampy area behind an old gas station
>legs are exposed, leg hair is usually enough to keep mosquitoes off
>mosquitoes notice my presence and commence attack
>suddenly air is so thick with mosquitoes that I'm afraid to breathe for fear of breathing in mosquitoes
>swat at my legs because they're getting eaten alive
>hands come back smeared in blood
The worst though are those mega-sized mosquitoes and house centipedes

>>137399374
Ohio here. We don't have kudzu or kudzu beetles, so take your stinkbugs back.

>>137398917
>they keep everything from being quiet and spooky
Because it's so much less spooky to know twigs and leaves could be crunching behind you and you'd never know.

>>137399320
Yea it gets real bad in the summer, in the rural areas, ie most of the state, there is always enough standing water somewhere that the second you enter the shade you get jumped by them.

>>137399759
>>137399802
Turn that into a gif anon

>>137397917
We used to catch them as kids.

>>137399374
Holy shit, your leg hair is that thick? What are you, part rug?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE-_kNWJXNw

Thread theme

>>137399374
the mega-sized mosquitoes are mosquito hawks, and they eat mosquitoes all day long as their main form of sustenance
If you see a mosquito hawk or a dragonfly, you're obligated to salute it until it passes by

>>137399999
Repeating digits observed

it's thick enough to do the trick. Skeeters usually can't get through as long as I stay moving. My arms are where I get all my bites as a result, or around my knees where the hair is more sparse. The hair around my thighs is bizarrely long.

>>137400179
I did not know that, I've always been creeped out by them. Never knew they were my brothers in arms

>>137399374
>>137400179
>>137400322

NC = North Carolina? Yeah, fucking No see-em's and Tiger Mosquitos everywhere.

I wanna move back up to the mountains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivQaJwFRowc

>>137400684
Yeah, Carolina. Foothills area

>>137399480
Ignorance is bliss

>>137397324
Actually Cicadas make a count like ciss cisss ciss cis

kill all cicadas

>>137401059
So they frequent tumblr?

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All these bugs sound absolutely terrible, I'm glad I live so far North that I've never seen any of them before.

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Posting cicadas

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELpphS1d8zc

>>137397917

One of the weirdest things that ever happened to me involved Cicadas. I was walking back home at 1 in the morning, and all the streetlignts were out bar this cluster of three right at the corner. And they were covered in hundreds of cicadas, chirping away like it was still daylight. It was so loud you could hear them from a mile away. That's always got to me, though I don't know why.

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Desert master race.
Have fun with your insects.

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>>137398917
>ride motorcycle or ATV
>not wearing helmet+goggles, preferably full helmet

Squid.

>used to tie floss to their legs and fly them like kites

You are forgiven because that is both brilliant and fucking adorable.