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 Every 17 years in the DC area and some other places something special, something that is fairly unique happens. By unique I mean billions of cicadas come out of the ground and gently caress and die. Its fuckin crazy those motherfuckers are everywhere. There are 15 other major broods but this one is the biggest. Wikipedia says: Every 17 years, Brood X cicada nymphs tunnel upwards en masse to emerge from the surface of the ground. The insects then shed their skins on trees and other surfaces, thus becoming adults. The mature cicadas fly, mate, lay eggs in twigs, and then die within several weeks. The combination of the insects' long underground life, their nearly simultaneous emergence from the ground in vast numbers and their short period of adulthood allows the brood to survive even massive predation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brood_X They are loud as hell they fuckin stink and they lay around half dead after fuckin until they fall out of a tree onto you. Your pet will eat them. I dunno if they are good for your pet I'm not a loving doctor. They are probably the dumbest of all god's creatures other than you. Here's their range on a map with some other shittier broods, brood x takes place in some other states outside the dc area but not as many so gently caress em.  Anyway they are loud as gently caress and they have a few different songs they sing. The pharaoh song: https://youtu.be/U1xME1xTHT0 This fuckin poo poo sounds like a sprinkler https://youtu.be/zrswRDJ5ee4 Alien sounding one: https://youtu.be/dRUxKHO22Dw When the soil temp gets to 64 degrees poo poo goes down, its getting there. https://twitter.com/RyanMiller_WX/status/1382120532393463812/photo/1 https://twitter.com/RyanMiller_WX/status/1383063202397831171/photo/1 one emerging out of its hole today https://youtu.be/kAI88DKOKGo People say global warming hosed em up but in my opinion they are too loving dumb and numerous to notice that they should go extinct. They're coming, for you. But I will do my part to protect you. Here's a recipe I found. Going to leave it at that but I think you know what's coming when they are out for real. Wild Onion Cicada Nibblers Ingredients 1 cup freshly emerged, blanched cicadas 1 cup Worcestershire sauce 4 eggs, beaten 4 tablespoons finely chopped wild onion stalks (scallion stalks may be substituted) 3 cups flour 2 tablespoons sea salt 2 tablespoons black pepper 1 cup salted butter Directions Marinade the cicadas in the Worcestershire sauce for at least 45 minutes. Beat the eggs. Blend in the wild onion. Mix the sea salt and black pepper into the flour. Melt the butter in a frying pan over low heat. Strain the cicadas from the Worcestershire sauce. Increase the heat under the frying pan to medium Drop the cicadas in the egg-wild onion blend. Stir. Pull the cicadas from the egg-wild onion blend and roll in the flour-sea salt-black pepper mix. Saute the cicadas gently until they are golden brown. Thank you for your time. If you are in the area post videos. Will update with my search for cicadas around the the DMV.
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I love those big dumb cicadas. It's like if blind cows could scream at 80 decibels and fly.
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Apr 19, 2021 02:22
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A goon in a previous cicada thread years ago once said that you have to love an insect whose evolved response to predation is to be so numerous that its predators simply get too full to eat them all, and I wholeheartedly agree. Cicadas are big, dumb, pretty in their own weird sort of way, and dumb.
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Apr 19, 2021 02:28
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Apr 19, 2021 02:29
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:Do they taste like they smell? dunno but were gunna find out, as far as I remember from 2004 its the piles of rotting corpses that smell.
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Apr 19, 2021 02:30
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why would you eat bugs that is gross lol
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Nooner posted:why would you eat bugs that is gross lol i mean if they are just going to laze about cant be that different from a lobster
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Apr 19, 2021 02:36
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HugeGrossBurrito posted:i mean if they are just going to laze about cant be that different from a lobster Lobster? ?? I'm interested
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Apr 19, 2021 02:38
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The first time a cicada flies into your eye or.mouth is a special experience.
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If you eat shrimp and crayfish, you can eat one of these fuckers imo. And I do, and would. I'm just not sure how to clean them up properly or what parts are good eating. It'd be like never seeing a shrimp in your life and you're handed a half-dead one and told "Have at it". There's a lot there NOT to like, ya know?
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Apr 19, 2021 02:53
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I've heard you can use their wings as natural dental floss. Give 'em a snap.
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Suck it OP   (ur undertaker in this one op)  (lol op just got slammed HARD by brood x)  Suck it I say
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Smugworth posted:Suck it OP oh god not again, fine
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Apr 19, 2021 03:06
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Who else thought this was gonna be an X-Men thread? 
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I was both disappointed and relieved this thread wasn't about an upcoming sequel/modern remake of Cronenberg's The brood. That was a rad movie.
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I asked this a couple years ago but if anyone is in the brood zone ill pay for some cicada wings (from dead bugs ofc dont hurt the lil dudes), i want to use them in art
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Bismuth posted:I asked this a couple years ago but if anyone is in the brood zone ill pay for some cicada wings (from dead bugs ofc dont hurt the lil dudes), i want to use them in art Neat I want to see this!!!
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Apr 19, 2021 03:23
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Super Munchies on sale limited time.
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Bismuth posted:I asked this a couple years ago but if anyone is in the brood zone ill pay for some cicada wings (from dead bugs ofc dont hurt the lil dudes), i want to use them in art i got you, just pay for the shipping which will cost very little I assume.
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I. M. Gei posted:do fish eat them? Circle of life, Jack. Just one hook!
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I. M. Gei posted:do fish eat them? bass love em and its great because the bait flies right in your face and lands in the boat. all day long
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Apr 19, 2021 03:34
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gently caress yes scream my children, scream in a tree
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Apr 19, 2021 03:40
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Tom Gorman posted:bass love em and its great because the bait flies right in your face and lands in the boat. all day long that’s all I need to hear
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HugeGrossBurrito posted:i got you, just pay for the shipping which will cost very little I assume. Nice! Ill pay whatever, do you still have my email?
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Bismuth posted:Nice! Ill pay whatever, do you still have my email? Yes! Also 
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HugeGrossBurrito posted:Yes! Also Uh sent you one, no idea why i always feel like i need permission... Im the shopped in stock image bug photo
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as someone that has had sex recently i think we need to stop slut shaming them and let them gently caress, 17 years is pst the age of consent in almost all of america.
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Just because there's a mod vacancy in GBS,
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Three Olives posted:as someone that has had sex recently i think we need to stop slut shaming them and let them gently caress, 17 years is pst the age of consent in almost all of america. why u gotta make the thread about me eatin a bug fuckin weird man
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HugeGrossBurrito posted:why u gotta make the thread about me eatin a bug fuckin weird man stop sex shaming.
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Yeah if you put one directly on a microphone and let it scream "I AM READY FOR SEX NOW" like any other being that hasn't been laid in 17 years, it's gonna be loud. Human incels shoot guns at other people and have only figuratively been living in dirt their whole lives. Slightly cracked windows with cicadas singing outside is an amazing sleep soundtrack. It sounds like you're tent camping in a national forest but feels like you're asleep in your own gosh danged bed.
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oh poo poo forgot about this gently caress three olvies poo poo fuckin nerd anyway heres a cicada saying awwww yeaaaahhhhh https://twitter.com/i/status/1117286347964858370
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I think they’re pretty cool but we don’t get em real bad where I live. The last time our brood emerged a few years ago one of them decided to do his molting thing on our patio umbrella so I got to watch the whole thing!
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I love these things because they're tacit proof of how loving stupid nature is and how little it gives a gently caress about what's graceful, elegant, or remotely efficient as long as it works.
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Mahatma-Squid posted:I was both disappointed and relieved this thread wasn't about an upcoming sequel/modern remake of Cronenberg's The brood. That was a rad movie. I’d totally watch a Cronenburg movie about cicadas. Because real life just isn’t terrifying enough I guess.
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HugeGrossBurrito posted:oh poo poo forgot about this gently caress three olvies poo poo fuckin nerd anyway heres a cicada saying awwww yeaaaahhhhh Can't wait to see what Vince Chase and the boys get up to this week.
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