Its Time

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>>1008989
WHIIIIZZZZZZOOOOOO
WHIIIIZZZZZZOOOOOO
WHIIIIZZZZZZOOOOOO
OZOZOZOZOZOooooo

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>>1008989
none will survive

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>>1008989
wrong map but I like it

>>1008989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjy830PvHVQ

cicadas are definitely the coolest insects ever.

Such a badass little lifecycle!

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Canadian here. What's the big deal about cicadas? Would they not making /out/ings kinda miserable?

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>>1011502
They make outings surreal. When the height of the season is in full swing all of them are singing. All of them will sing in tune with each other for the most part. It will create a very weird auditory illusion. It has a similar rhythmic pattern of ocean waves with highs and lows. The sounds will also come in waves as a point in the "song" will ripple across a vast distance sometimes when they are out of sync a bit. Think of 1 million people playing 2 million maracas at the same time and you might get an idea of what it is like during one of the big emergences.

During the first part of the emergence, at night you'll hear the strangest noises coming from the ground as millions of them start digging their way out of the ground. It can be really freaky if you're outside on a quite night listening to that happen. You also get to hear them split open their skins, in the millions.

The up side to all of this is that you can eat them, everything else can eat them, and there's great fishing during that time if you use lures that look like them or hook them on. The worst part is that the young, sapling, fruit tress will get destroyed. The older ones just get a pruning usually.

>>1011528
>tfw live in upstate SC
Camping as soon as I get home

>>1008989
>I don't live in their range anymore

Man I miss the little boogers. I worked at a scout camp when I was a kid during a major period in the past and living in the woods for 6 weeks while it was happening was pretty cool, even if they did get everywhere. Without a doubt some of the dumbest creatures on the planet

>>1008989
I used to think cicadas were really annoying, and then one day I took a nap under a tree while cicadas were singing and I tripped fucking BALLS after I tuned in to their frequency.

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>>1012349
ikr, it is like you get into some monkesque chanting zen thing