Cicada waits 17 years just to be snatched by a raccoon | New York Post

Seventeen years down the drain… A time-lapse video captured the moment a raccoon nabbed a cicada as it was molting in a backyard in Alexandria, Virginia. The tasty Brood X cicadas, which emerge from the ground every 17 years, are currently swarming the northeastern United States.

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[JamesxBond]

Moral of the story: Enjoy It, While It Lasts :)

[seahog]

You don’t think that raccoon has been waiting 17 🤔 nah lol

[PacificPier]

a destined meal, 1.5+ decades in the making.

[Squee__]

"I've been waiting for you.."

[ImDahDude]

Man....being mad would be an understatement! SMH

[jg]

When you leave food with your name on it at work.

[zeryphex]

moral of the story: Don't molt on a low-height tree stump; choose the top of a tall tree or somewhere in the middle ... or even inside a tree.

[tamaragonzalez]

This was funny and I'm still laughing.

[truthreignsforever]

This is hilarious 😂. But why did the raccoon need to wait till it came out? Did it want it fresh and ripe? Like a banana? Couldn’t it just had removed it from the shell the day before?