Cicada's Are Coming...

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I definitely saw one on the porch outside tonight. He said he is bringing his friends to party.

Careful, I heard they rock and roll all night... and party everyday.... then drop dead.

Quote: Pacomartin

Cicadas have no defense mechanism and must saturate their predators. The birds and dogs and anything else must reach the point where they can't eat any more.

I imagine Ayecarumba will want to advertise "ALL YOU CAN EAT! Delicious Cicadas!"


Er... Yummy!?

Are Cicadas the insects that leave the skeletal husk behind? Usually, I saw those sitting on a branch, life like, when I was a kid.

Quote: rxwine

Are Cicadas the insects that leave the skeletal husk behind? Usually, I saw those sitting on a branch, life like, when I was a kid.

Yes


I should warn you that even though this film condenses 90 minutes to under 3 minutes, it is still boring. Skip through sections.

Some interesting facts


http://youtu.be/G34aBSrTkRE

It actually makes you pause, when you consider that cicadas are one of nature's answer to survival. Produce billions of individual's that predators cannot destroy the species.

Of course, the human species numbered roughly one million 12,0000 years ago, and were thought to be up to twenty million at the traditional beginning of the world 6,000 years ago (according to Judeo Christian tradition). In the Jewish calendar is is currently 5773 "from the creation of the world".

The human population at the dawn of the neolithic era was probably not much higher than that of our closest biological relatives, chimpanzees and gorillas. Compare the current population of 7 billion humans to:

Chimpanzees population: Between 150,000 and 250,000.
Gorillas total population in the Wild: around 107,000
Sumatran Orangutan (Pongo abelii) population: Around 7,000
Borneo Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) population: Between 40,000 and 65,000.
Bonobo population: Between 30,000 and 50,000.

Quote: Pacomartin

It actually makes you pause, when you consider that cicadas are one of nature's answer to survival. Produce billions of individual's that predators cannot destroy the species.

Reminded me about this story

This bug survived under a single bush in this odd place. (see next pic below.)

Quote: rxwine

This bug survived under a single bush in this odd place. (see next pic below.)

I liked that story, thank you for posting it.


If you think about the survival of the human species consider this fact. In 5 years the population of North and South America will finally reach 1 billion. In comparison it is expected to take 16 years for Africa and Asia to add another billion to their total.

So if we should ever suffer the great cataclysm in human history, like losing the entire population of this hemisphere, it would only take 16 years to replace that population.