Cicadas will be loudest in 220 years (The World Hasn’t Seen Cicadas Like This Since 1803) - Upgoat

Cicadas will be loudest in 220 years (The World Hasn’t Seen Cicadas Like This Since 1803)
submitted by iSnark to Mildlyinfuriating 3 monthsJan 21, 2024 00:20:49 ago (+11/-1) (news.yahoo.com)
https://news.yahoo.com/world-hasn-t-seen-cicadas-174831342.html

[ - ] QuestionEverything 2 points 3 monthsJan 21, 2024 07:57:46 ago (+2/-0)

Its intentional. A few years ago they paid for studies to figure out how to make them swarm.. Now we're getting swarm events outside of normal probability ranges.

[ + ] iSnark

[ - ] iSnark [op] 0 points 3 monthsJan 21, 2024 14:29:40 ago (+0/-0)

Hadn't seen those studies, I'll have to look them up.

[ - ] BushChuck 1 point 3 monthsJan 21, 2024 15:20:49 ago (+1/-0)

Can niggers hear them?

[ + ] iSnark

[ - ] iSnark [op] 0 points 3 monthsJan 21, 2024 15:38:50 ago (+0/-0)*

Where deez bat-trees go...

[ - ] DukeofRaul 1 point 3 monthsJan 21, 2024 01:36:03 ago (+1/-0)

It was already really bad once in my lifetime

[ + ] iSnark

[ - ] iSnark [op] 1 point 3 monthsJan 21, 2024 01:54:34 ago (+1/-0)

I don't know, there are all age ranges on this site. It is possible that you could have been born around the last 17 year cycle, and would have been too young to really remember. I'm just glad they're not like flesh-eating piranhas, and that they can't kill you.

[ - ] MartinTimothy 1 point 3 monthsJan 21, 2024 00:28:58 ago (+1/-0)

A few days after they emerge and molt, the males will start buzzing in an effort to find a mate, a slow-building crescendo of noise that in a chorus can be louder than a plane. Yahoo.

I have long supposed the cicada's sound is actually an audio frequency radio wave.

[ + ] iSnark

[ - ] iSnark [op] 3 points 3 monthsJan 21, 2024 00:33:49 ago (+3/-0)

It is for sure interesting the means in which they make their noise. If you haven't been through one of these 13 or 17 year cycles, it's quite annoying.

[ + ] DukeofRaul

[ - ] DukeofRaul 2 points 3 monthsJan 21, 2024 01:42:25 ago (+2/-0)

They stink too

[ - ] Smedleys_Butler 0 points 3 monthsJan 21, 2024 14:18:48 ago (+0/-0)

Wish we had field recordings in 1803

[ + ] iSnark

[ - ] iSnark [op] 0 points 3 monthsJan 21, 2024 14:36:28 ago (+0/-0)

I'm sure it was absolutely maddening.

[ + ] Smedleys_Butler

[ - ] Smedleys_Butler 0 points 3 monthsJan 21, 2024 15:00:10 ago (+0/-0)

Seeing as how I'm getting back into songwriting, this has some excellent experimental potential

[ - ] Panic 0 points 3 monthsJan 21, 2024 10:48:32 ago (+0/-0)