Cicadas are crawling out from underground, where they have been hiding in the darkness for almost two decades. As of May 2013, they're invading the East Coast from North Carolina to New York. But why? Learn more about cicadas with Josh and Chuck.
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one day we gotta get interpret this newly toxic out. Is this what I was thinking? I guess
I mean a given intro, there will be something like Chuck. Have you ever experienced summer? I have in the south.
Somewhere in the south. For me, cicadas I associate cicada cicada either way. You know they figure what you say: Cicada I say cigar, I say cicada indicator.
Actually have a very quick funny story. I have a friend Andrew who had a friend who tried out as a singer for some Broadway shower something and she did that song, but she did not had never heard the song. I think, and she sang you say, potato. I say the data,
and didn't know, and that is how the audition like she, just
read it. She, I guess she got it wrong or rather submitted owes. You know, potato potato tomatoes, maybe to get a good laugh out of the people is a good story. I thought I was gonna was Andrews, listening, depriving hello, hey, Huska, moving on to secure this? Yes again, I think we should agree to say said: Kate. Will it is again given our key and if you're talking about Cicada, you have probably certain types of mind, but there are actually
there are a number of species I've seen anywhere between two hundred and twenty five hundred, depending on how you ask them
and the one
that, then I think everybody thinks of when they think Cicada, especially when they think Cicada infestation yeah eyes. The magic Ikeda is the species name yeah it's their period.
Cicadas, and that's what we're gonna be concentrating on right and those are the ones at all over the news right between the eastern seaboard right, I've been hearing them or hearing about them, Cicada
Cicada invasion. In fact, if you go to your majesty cater, that's all I said I'd like MAGIC, Ikeda, DOT, Org, there's a there's, a map there. That shows you where they are currently hatching yeah. They have alot, agree resources on that site. Yeah people get really excited, causes such a weird freaky, unique thing. It is that happens, every thirteen or well, that's not true. It happens. You know
were frequently, but each brood, we'll hatchery seventeen or thirteen years right happens every year, depending on the type of brute exactly the tears here. Yes,
Embrued to it, and there are two two types of broods prototypes: a periodic brutes and by the periodic broods, the ones that emerged after thirteen years or seventeen years native, an indigenous only the North America, oh yeah yeah. So it's like our special thing, I'll call. So if you're talking about Cicada invasion, two dozen thirteen to a british prison again be like our night. You talking about
but oh, we should say fuck. We're gonna, be a part of this, oh yeah. In our own way, we're gonna be on the tv
science channel Cicada invasion, two thousand thirteen on Sunday may twenty six right gather do let's go programming, and now they have gotten us to provide some little bumpers and
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in invaders, two thousand thirteen. It's on Sunday may twenty six unsigned channel. It goes from eight to eleven p M
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we're gonna, be there on science and data. Go check it out to dry, so we know a lot about cicadas, and this is why the train
so again, you said a magic cicada. I like MAGIC Ikeda for but
The seventeen year brood species is what's coming out along the eastern seaboard and they're, going to be eventually black.
With orange, veined, wings and red eyes, yeah general,
They have red eyes, although you can occasionally spot a v.
Rare blue, eyed or silver I'd, but you cannot get money for those. Did you hear about that? Rumour know in two thousand, for I think that was a rumour that Johns Hopkins was paying money for blue eyed cicadas,
He could find them and they were like. No. No, please. I have bringing those here
neat and it's rare, but when
for money for the threat that thank you will take them for free, the sucker.
But generally their little steeper seamen. Lookin read, I think, right in.
It also say here with the big deal, is why it's called like invaders in the invasion in Cicada apple Apocalypse,
may the Elinor two thousand thirteen people who don't live here. This happens with the brutal
every seventeen years and improves are incredibly
well synchronized, and there are billions of these things.
Cause they're synchronize billions cicadas
when all emerged from the ground pretty much at once in an area yeah. In fact, I'm professor rob himself was quoted. Anything I read today said: there's a boat
there could be a billion per square mile. Dude right,
a billion over all right, like a billion in her.
Like you and your neighbors backyards yeah.
Crazy. Yet I think it's more like one and a half million per acre at its peak,
really so you and three other neighbours, you got one
five million, so rapid wrong. Now he said
square Mile folk s. Where am, I know, he's a think he's
anything that has as yet we have met him. Yet we live in today s action,
in real time. We have high hopes, of course,
So I guess you wanna talk about what these guys look like guys and gals. Look like new asylum,
or in things, that's right. They are in the order him a terror which anything as,
piercing in sucking mouth parts is in that order and
you gotta wingspan between
have the means to fifteen and have you the big ones, man their huge yeah, like palm your handbag, yet once in the traffic through six inches long, their body, not their wings,
that's crazy. They are bad fires, I guess I'm hungry
This gets here and say because they're not around long that I'm not experience the propaganda heavy yeah.
You know you're, not very air, diner heavy for their wings yet, and I think he just kick off point one of what makes cicadas the affable lovable member of the insect balls in the air, but they have to set the wings one two pairs of going. There
They can't fly very well here so that such as wine year, they have the outer wings. Are our glass in transparent in their longer and they covered the shorter opaque wings? And they look formidable when you look at the wings are vainly, unlike they look sturdy yet they're, not they're, not for this occasion. Here's the other funny thing. They have three pairs of legs.
But they're, not good jumpers, even though they tried to the all their legs or about the same length. So they can a clumsy. They can't fly very well. You can jump very well with point two
they have as big if he red eyes, and then they have three by guises point through yet compound eyes, but an
three tiny little eyes and in between on the top of their had called awesomely, and they of course, watch for the birds and other predators that look above rights, they have a really great peripheral vision. Given the compound. As an aside that great, I guess, airborne vision, worms I visit site and a couple of little bristling container behind the little ocelot icily eyes a silly. I guess that would be prepared to say or redundancy icily ask as if they are beginning to then they have those mouth parts that we mention and they are in a sheet. The big, like chief, called Lady M, which they cannot just took their between their legs unless they need to use it.
It is what they do in there. They eat there that sheep, the libyan holds for little stickers called stylists there, like there need alike and a German into the plant like the leaf, and they just sucking up like a star, and that in reproduction is that's the point of the securities life yet well, that's what did hear reproduction, those really the pointing on saying that they like that they like to do it to address beaten boy. People can be like that
and the thing to say weeks later, you'll understand her so their famous, though, for not only for their weird seventeen year or thirteen, your emergence, but their loud loud singing and before we go on to describe it, we might want to hear it
so you think so brief little audio a bit here from Jerry Dishonesty, Cicada singing, there's gonna, make you sick
call goes really good, Terry and really good. Mr cicada- and I say, MR because it's only the men that are singing the male well
it is so friggin loud it will scare off birds. So this is
extraordinarily loud dessicated call. The males mating saw the especially when they get together and have seen yeah I've seen that
Doktor MIKE said that it was recorded at like ninety four decibels, which is like a standing next to allow more a basically, but is this?
This is a sound made by an insect in it everywhere. It fills the air for someone who has an experience that, like a course of male cicadas, all singing together
it's everywhere. It's really loud and in fact you said, law nor the females can actually be attracted de la moors and mediators around here. That's crazy in just to give you an idea between eighty ninety decibels is when the threat of hearing loss begins and, like you said lawnmowers, and about one twentieth.
I consider that one forty is a jet engine, and these things are a little tiny insects right. Remember that again, doktor myself! Ninety four was what he'd seen recorded
but I have also read of two hundred and twenty decibels: yeah, that's right,
really loud yet and apparently can get so high that humans, can't you remember if you dog is gone berserker near near unlike North Carolina or Maryland, or something that might be life and yeah smaller species may higher pitched ones
So? How are they doing this? Oh well? They have actually a lot of people think that it's a church, maybe like a cricket rubbed his legs, are getting you'll, be wrong brain. We should say that cicadas closer to AIDS, thing crickets right
and there are also not using any vocal courts because they lack those with they do have
these little membranes on the sides of their adamant in these men
means. Are there called temples here and there connected to? Well, I guess there inside the other
by a little muscle right and when the muscle contracts, the timber bans crease forms
And then, when the must relaxes, the timber goes back to talk again, and that makes a clicking sound. If you do that, a bunch of times
you have, as is the case on here, and they don't know why it so loud or how its allow right. I did read something: I'm not sure if its verified that they're like pockets in the abdomen that make it louder or something, but still like such a small insect right, I mean it,
if it can be big but that stolen into, but in the sound like you said it messes with birds. They can scare him off here,
can also even the ones that aren't scared off. It prevents birds from hunting impact because they can communicate with my other causes so loud. So it's also defence mechanism. It's amazing call an apparently certain species make a certain sound yet to prevent. I guess interstitial mixing, while they want to be with their own kind.
Because they don't have too many shouted out and are doing all this up in the trees right, yeah,
later in the heat of the day when the when this music is going on, you say music, I say: Chainsaw,
Does it bother you? I think it's so soothing,
then we're among the invasion. Yes near it did to me it's not soothing
because if so loud and so continuous that it's really like drives me mad insulated need, though not at school kids, you know it's gonna end.
In it. The arrests and it falls in question its fall Vienna. So, like you know, it's gonna. I just think it really is needed
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it, an females, have these mere like membranes, a pair of on call him papa.
Sure, like their ears and basically there's a short
then connected and when their shouting out with their call
They will retract attending a basically just sort of Greece's encloses their ears, so they live here right like shut
like a little filling my mechanical function exactly. I was talk about that. The meeting in Vienna, the begging
the over positing. So this is pretty much the whole reason a security comes to life. This is why they invade is to me and reproduce ring.
So once the males of attracted some females over, like, though, that this
for one another, they decent terrible jumping in some bad firing in hay. Mamma will finally come up
on one another me like I like you I like,
another, your fear and after they made the female carves some notches into the stigma of plants that crazy and yeah and then use
moreover, positive, which is an egg laying appended and arm deposits up to six hundred eggs. In when low session,
and then on the eggs start a hat
sleep fall down out of the tree as larva. Yet is all nymphs yeah, ok, so their nets that yeah they so they go through the levels
in the tree and then fall down out as nymphs, and then they burrow
yet immediately rude underground as a protective measures
and then they start growing in repeatedly shutting their skin oversight
team year. Seventeen years so think about this, a the every cicada lives. Seventeen years of its periodic seventeen years ago to the average lifespan is seventeen years underground
right and then two months above ground at the moment when they die like forty six weeks generally, here
they spend almost all their life as young, immature cicadas, getting ready to be adults for two months or less so they can reproduce once and then that it is not his pretty neither
if you dont have cicadas and you're like what's going on, I mean you probably have a lot of deciduous trees where you are here. They like fruit, trees to yeah, so don't get burned out, discovers your neighbor if they have some who got the oaks.
In the question. Why are the under their for so long? There a bunch of theories. I can't wait to talk to Professor MIKE the net of today's
but then the leading theory I've heard is that it's like an evolutionary rhythm that they develop did not get eaten.
Lloyd predators. No, that is why there are billions of these things.
Square mile or two and its because they have relatively few protein
underground, there's a type of fungus, yet that can attack them so that it can be traced.
From generation to generation. There are better
are there that will eat them, but for the most part there out of the grasp of like their their main predators like birds or whatever, so they do.
This is vital, but then so many of them come up and die like very quickly there. Actually something called Predator Association. Yet
comes about which means that, like the birds fly off because there's
for they can eat anymore and it still doesn't
Mfa gently impact, the number of cicadas, yet still enough
were to mate and keep the species allied right
Does he felt I really like you tired of eating as yet the right you're like I'm so full of cicadas like find now, will make their let's get it out
The birds are for purely a lot. More born, cripple, especially thing
The long chemicals yeah have you ever there's a time lapse on Youtube of one coming out of it. Sir Exoskeleton is pretty pretty awesome, so
We could say when they, when they emerge from their boroughs, another chimneys little mud chimneys via their adults, but they're called tenor. All adults yet they're not quite to the adult stage at what happens if they have to mould their exoskeleton. Yet we shall find like attached to a tree or something like that: yeah amateur,
it's cool, fizzy, super cool and then once they more than that's the last time, they're going to their full fledged adult and then have like forty six weeks. Yeah maybe like that, if you successfully make it through bird season and get the maid wreck like a lot of these guys, don't like within days or weeks, and they think themselves out through with little little shovels, and there are some examples on their legs. Yeah
Maybe dig up in there. Ok we're here yet look out for that bird, I'm already dead, oh shit, I'm crippled, or man can't fly seventeen years and I can't fly yeah.
And here comes a bird and apparently one of the one of the things that are killers. Cicada is incomplete. Moulting, like others get stuck in thy here. There's gonna be a better way to go the access I mean since you're still in seven there's all manner of like awful things around the most of them here.
Also, we should say: cicadas are known for huge infestation,
raisins whatever you want to call it a thirteen year. Seventeen years-
Google and there so many of them all at once, because their summit,
I'm a but also because their like in synchronicity.
And they think the reason why they all emerge usually at night. All at once is because
we are following the same q and they're pretty sure it has to do with ground temperature. Oh really yeah. They think that
I evolutionary am rhythm. Well,
There is another thing and I think it's probably tied together right. That rhythm is based on the temperature change, ok and then there would have to be some sort of rhythm, because the temperatures gonna hit. I think when the temperature averages thirst every sixty four degrees Fahrenheit, the aground that's when you're gonna start cicadas emerging gear
But that's gonna happen seventeen times of sixteen times before that seventeen years that there does have to be some other pattern that they're following two: they don't emerge seer right, but it is just one: did they heard at the front? This, like you know,
The old man- I guess in seventeen years- let's do it was due to think any mention the temperature change for that. That makes sense because they
They had. You know from a southerly south southerly to northern northerly northerly southerly northerly Elsie represent.
Up the coast. Ok, yeah yeah, I like it, will seem in Georgia First and North Carolina in Virginia in DC and then all the way up by the
value of New York, apparently so, if you are in Philadelphia,
DC or New York City. Even you might see some cicadas this year
really well yet, there's mathematical formula for predicting win you'll see cicadas in your neck of the woods, so you go to
whether underground dot com. Not- and you find
you go, got there almanac and look at April, and you figure out
the average April temperature was in Celsius right,
and then here's the mathematical formula II, which is the emergence Dayton me because I see some remember clubs e equals parentheses. Nineteen point six, five minus tea, which is their average April temperatures of this divided by
zero point. Five one three six. That number will give you the date that the security agenda emerge around your area and apparently it's tried and true or you can go to imagine how dessicated dot, org and click on the map, if you're not in a math any like pictures or if you like, both to the mischief
I think I have anything else. Why don't we go look at that time lapse on Youtube. It's pretty cool. I've got more here well in a high so that their candidates, dumbly bumblebee lovable, affable creatures of insight
yes, so not only. Can we not fly very well, we can jump very well. They
genuinely lack defences aside from their call. They can't do anything, will they dont Biter sting people, even though they look scary, they don't carry disease, they pray iron trees, only their urban force. If you can call an insect there
but even if a tree flags is what is called, the village becomes weaken from too many cicada. Yes, feeding on a tree, still bout back, so they kill
Nothing yet alive. Sure you don't need to be afraid of them. They look intimidating, but if they land on you, I call them in your hand, well
tell you if you home in the hand of a mail, will make a defensive buzzing, this kind of scary, again Kinsky, it's all its also talk there not gonna, buy you they're, not gonna sing. You they're really sweet little little Booker's and I welcome them. That's yeah
also you welcome them into your belly or you want here. There's a lotta cicada recipes out. There had a bad feeling. We're gonna be asked to eat some of this stuff that right as possible. I guess everyone's gonna tuning
on Sunday may twenty Fletcher I now I'm not as adventurous as you are. When it comes to eating things, is breaking a cookie. I would try it. I don't think they do. They think it's more,
like you know, no, don't you may major security cookies and she said Tis a cookie while, but I think the traditional ways like eat em, like you, would crickets like to put him in a panel some salt. I know I saw some like serious in their threats. Pc I mean tree could grow
cicadas and put him in was on year, your pizza. Whatever I didn't see ground up, I saw blanched tenor. All adults yeah
are you gonna get him before like there was a healthy really? She said it was fine, but shooting random up. She just put like a
and the cookie I dont know how she made him like that. Maybe broke him up. Trysting sitting get the impression that it was like a year when she's a Catholic means nothing really. So I would imagine that they were broken up in some way, get nothing so or maybe it's like the Eminem cookies. Stick it in the top, when it's right, as others too little disgusting tree,
so I use Polly wait for them to die of natural causes, maybe an incomplete mould. The grabs Yeltsin in Bacon vague our kids grabbed grab some exoskeleton cause. They look neat and they looked just like that. Like near the shell of the security sector,
bring one of those two scorn thought on your friend yeah and if you get another thing, you find a very thrilling there's a lot of US citizen science projects around Yasser, where the that has to do with tiny cicadas measuring cicadas. China do cicada calls near me the last or not, but you could do
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