Cicadas Want to Go Outside after 17 Years

After 17 years underground, periodical cicadas of Brood XIX and Brood XIII will emerge in 2024, bringing billions of insects to the surface across the U.S. These remarkable creatures spend nearly two decades feeding on tree roots before synchronizing their emergence, filling the air with their deafening calls—reaching up to 100 decibels, as loud as a chainsaw. This year, they will surface to a changing world: expanded cities, new roads, and shifting climates. Yet, their life cycle remains unchanged—mating, laying eggs, and ensuring the next generation continues this ancient rhythm.

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[TheGildedShrine]

"WHATS 17 MORE YEARS? I CAN ALWAYS START AGAIN, HAVE ANOTHER KID!"

[RandyHill-mx]

Fun fact ONE OF THESE GUYS SOMEHOW GOT THROUGH THE SIDEWALK! I was walking one day and thought hey isn't it cicada season? Then pulled out my phone and saw this and then put it away looked down mf had determination he broke the concrete somehow

[thelittleastronautsstarlan]

I saw a cicada manage out through a gap, what a mate

[dppgdlk]

Well seeing how they suck on tree sap from the roots of trees so you'll only find them there as long as trees weren't cut down to make the roads in the last 17 years they are fine

[Landon-rsm]

Well, imagine waiting 17 years to see the outside world after the apocalypse and you just can’t

[DRAKONIK]

Bro. You know they don't just dig up. If something's blocking they will go another way until they can get up.

[_billion_wasp]

and they still always managed to get out
“this prison, to hold… *ME?* “

[Blepinbeepyourbloop]

Farms: THEY'RE EVERYWHERE EATING EVERYTHING!!!

[Sandvicheeeeese]

What's 17 more years? I can always start again... Make another kid.

[jORGEzsz]

Once I revert to an egg I must bury myself underground for three years, there my form matures.

[PINKYPRESBITERO-eu]

car:vroom "bonk" eeerh vroom "bonk"

[roz]

Bro found the underground roof gotta use a ladder and an ender pearl to glitch out

[FerghusCameron]

The darkest of days are the brightest to some.

[keitherson]

oh no😢😢 the annoying bugs that hide underground then annoy everyone every couple of years cant do that because we built a parking garage😢😢😢😢😢 we are destroying earth by removing cicadas 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[tylermiller]

It's not like cicadas have 50 years to live. They only live for a day, and that's it.

[kalebwebb]

The majority of road projects strip, flop and compact at minimum 12 inches of native soils. Those cicadas would be dead from construction not stuck under the asphalt.

[dzafrandanial]

When they talk to me in a flirty way but they are not interested in me💀🙏

[Spiderboy-wgpu]

The more I think about it the more it’s sad because it’s about to die of old age

[밥밥호미]

It's the most creepy thing I've ever seen.