STD Update: Invaders From Underground Are Coming In Cicada-Geddon. It’s The Biggest Bug Emergence In Centuries

[Sugar Cookie]

Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries.

Crawling out from underground every 13 or 17 years, with a collective song as loud as jet engines, the periodical cicadas are nature’s kings of the calendar.


These black bugs with bulging eyes differ from their greener-tinged cousins that come out annually. They stay buried year after year, until they surface and take over a landscape, covering houses with shed exoskeletons and making the ground crunchy.

This spring, an unusual cicada double dose is about to invade a couple parts of the United States in what University of Connecticut cicada expert John Cooley called “cicada-geddon.” The last time these two broods came out together in 1803 Thomas Jefferson, who wrote about cicadas in his Garden Book but mistakenly called them locusts, was president.

At times mistaken for voracious and unrelated locusts, periodical cicadas are more annoying rather than causing biblical economic damage. They can hurt young trees and some fruit crops, but it’s not widespread and can be prevented.

The largest geographic brood in the nation — called Brood XIX and coming out every 13 years — is about to march through the Southeast, having already created countless boreholes in the red Georgia clay. It’s a sure sign of the coming cicada occupation. They emerge when the ground warms to 64 degrees (17.8 degrees Celsius), which is happening earlier than it used to because of climate change, entomologists said. The bugs are brown at first but darken as they mature.

Soon after the insects appear in large numbers in Georgia and the rest of the Southeast, cicada cousins that come out every 17 years will inundate Illinois. They are Brood XIII.

“You’ve got one very widely distributed brood in Brood XIX, but you have a very dense historically abundant brood in the Midwest, your Brood XIII,” said University of Maryland entomologist Mike Raupp.

“And when you put those two together… you would have more than anywhere else any other time,” University of Maryland entomologist Paula Shrewsbury said.

These hideaway cicadas are found only in the eastern United States and a few tiny other places. There are 15 different broods that come out every few years, on 17- and 13-year cycles. These two broods may actually overlap — but probably not interbreed — in a small area near central Illinois, entomologists said.

The numbers that will come out this year – averaging around 1 million per acre over hundreds of millions of acres across 16 states – are mind-boggling. Easily hundreds of trillions, maybe quadrillions, Cooley said.

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Invaders from underground are coming in cicada-geddon. It’s the biggest bug emergence in centuries

Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and poss…

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[Metalfan]

That's fantastic,we've never seen bugs on this site before.

 

[BuffettGirl]

Thankful (it's rare!) that I live in Oregon far away from the cicada zone!

 

[Sugar Cookie]

 

[Crazy Cat Lady]

That's fantastic,we've never seen bugs on this site before.

Sure we have. On those feces-encrusted floors in places where the toilets are always backed up.

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Thankful (it's rare!) that I live in Oregon far away from the cicada zone!

You’re lucky!

 

[Metalfan]

Sure we have. On those feces-encrusted floors in places where the toilets are always backed up

You leave my crib alone!

 

[the cat did it]

My dog loves them, finds them to be a tasty snack! And those things SCREAM-I mean they LITERALLY SCREAM-I am not talking about their normal loud noise but like a woman being strangled-it's a little bit horrifying

 

[420702]

They should ask Isreal to bomb them.

 

[everjaded]

Last year was my boyfriend's first experience with cicadas and he was... not a fan. Those fuckers are LOUD.

I always loved finding their little shells hanging out after they molted and went off to live their merry little cicada lives.

 

[Blunderbuss Firozabad]

That's a katydid. But when else would I have an excuse 8lto show this image? Cicadas look like katydids.

 

[everjaded]

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That's a katydid. But when else would I have an excuse 8lto show this image? Cicadas look like katydids.

MA'AM. I will not have you out here slandering cicadas like that!

This little guy would NEVER.

Also, that katydid is the embodiment of Hopper from A Bug's Life. Was he a katydid? Always thought he was a grasshopper!

 

[Blunderbuss Firozabad]

MA'AM. I will not have you out here slandering cicadas like that!

This little guy would NEVER.
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Also, that katydid is the embodiment of Hopper from A Bug's Life. Was he a katydid? Always thought he was a grasshopper!

Go ask your creepy cicada ghost friends, I'm not telling you.

P.S. That Katydid was eating a gecko.

Your cicadas are the 8th plague.
Darkness in the day is number 9 which will be the 8th of April.
Then boils, lice and so forth and so on.

They're going backwards this time.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

These loudmouth bugs will soon be brainwashed horndogs.

A creepy sexually transmitted fungus is expected to morph millions of cicadas into hyper-horny “zombies” by hijacking their bodies so they’ll spread the infection in parts of the US this spring, according to scientists.

The horror-movie style fungal pathogen, known as Massospora cicadina, will cause the insects mate like crazy in parts of the Southeast and Midwest — as record numbers of the noisy bugs emerge from the ground, an expert told CBS News.

The fungus causes a chalky white plug to burst through the insects’ backsides, taking over their brains and causing their genitals to fall off.

It then acts as a “puppet master” by sending a flood of adrenaline to help males pose as females in order to pass the infection through sex.

“In that way, the fungus is sexually transmissible. So, it spreads like an STD,” Matthew Kasson, an associate professor of Mycology and Forest Pathology at West Virginia University, told CBS.

“There’s this hyper-sexualized behavior. So, males for example, they’ll continue to try and mate with females — unsuccessfully, because again, their back end is a fungus,” he said.

“But they’ll also pretend to be females to get males to come to them. And that doubles the number of cicadas that an infected individual comes in contact with.”

Hyper-sexual ‘zombie cicadas’ infected with bizarre STD fungus will emerge in US

A creepy sexually transmitted fungus is expected to morph millions of cicadas into sexed up “zombies” by hijacking their bodies to spread the infection in the US.

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[Satanica]

Not looking good for food crops worldwide.