Cicada Song

[heartlessmushroom]

Sounds like from another world

[Gunnercv]

i am waiting for that sound to start

[nyanyacrapfunnydance]

how can a bug live up to 17 years? it's a teen!

lol are there any in california?

[jennodine]

I have an Australian Green Grocer Cicada in my garage right now in North Carolina. I came out to do some laundry and he was hiding among my green gain detergent bottles and he was about the same color. He protested at my arrival, scaring the crap out of me! Then he flew out and took a vantage point on the garage door bar at about the middle of the ceiling. He flew back to the laundry soap after a few minutes, then to a corner where the only other green object stood. Either hungry or smart!

[Zendog500]

Very cool ! I was able to show my daughter what was making the noise in the trees with this. Thanks!

[GataMachine007]

17 yr old cicadas last song, its so beautiful!

[candyanime2]

Gotta love the song of the prime-numbered year.

[einaeb5]

Love these creatures!

[offspringy]

He's trying to tune his radio...

[xKomodoFireWolf]

i loooooooove cicadas!

i look forward to it every summer when i take a trip down to south dakota from canada! :)

this year my dad actually brung one back with us, and is now singing and buzzing in our tree right out in front of our house! <3

but i kinda feel bad that the cicada is alone, and none of its kind are with him..

[watchensee]

Here in Maryland we had the 17 year cicadas back in 2004. :)

[Tiberiumfreek]

SO CUTE :D

[firuinthehouse]

Very nice :D

[Meerkat218]

They're everywhere... thousands of them.... thousands of swarming alien lifeforms... escape while you still can!

[MrMjkky]

Cicadas came this year in North Carolina.

i still have a dead one :D

Also, Green grocer cicadas are here too.

[untidaled]

Doesn't sound like any cicada I've heard either. Very cool tho. I'm down in Louisiana. They can sound real trippy sometimes at my parents house - the overall pitch slightly waves up and down, real slow. It sounds like an interesting electronic music effect... seems like people either love or hate these bugs - I love em.

[thebellrajr]

that is exacly how the cicada looks and sounds here in GA

[retsiembrU]

i wanna hear you sing after 13 years under the ground

[enerdjazer]

call 911 !

[Walkmethrough142]

he has got the x-factor!

[Busterseyes]

Great video and great sound!

[spaceyard]

Coolest bugs ever!!!

[mrs0antichrist]

Luckily, we don't have these where I live. However, when I went to visit my grandparents out in Montreal, I spent the first few days thinking that there must be construction going on in the area until I learned that the noise was actually cause by cicadas.

[JuliusGreaser]

@mrs0antichrist There was an actual case where someone called the cops on the cicadas because they thought it was construction equipment.

[RavagingTerror]

Cool

[Peiselkopp]

Trying to start the engine. ;-)

[ALLERTORLOVER69]

thats a great ringtone

[HaBooBo0]

Wow, I imagine if you didn't grow up with this sort of thing and are not used to it, that particular non-stop sound would freakin' DRIVE YOU INSANE!!

[mrs0antichrist]

@HaBooBo0 It does.

[wakaccount]

Any idea what species of Cicada that is?

[iamnoman85]

these 17 year cicadas are quite different from the ones we have in the midwest. Ours are a bit shorter and fatter, and the sound is far different.

[WhiteBerlinetta]

@Carlo568 NOTHING like a Supra blow off valve

[Schwarzer0Ritter]

It sounds like something from a Godzilla Movie.

[Witch1993]

Vuvuzela!

[Tyrium7798]

When the cicada's cry... :-D

[GABOMAN742]

It's sound like an F1 car, and it sounds like shifting gears. =)

[adalbertofelipe]

Yeah, cicadas are great and fascinating bugs!

[Doctorwaffles]

I believe that's a Periodical cicada.

[Lucifuhrerr]

Cicada: Must destroy all humans!

[Loveyourdisk]

Summer feelings...

[Carlo568]

Sounds sorta like a Supra blow off valve lol.

[DDofCourage]

I've never heard a cicada like that, that's creepy.

[DesisQ]

Brown cicada yikes :D

[thecephalogod]

my favorite sound<3

[thepman366]

How nostalgic. :(

Last time we had them was in 2004... i think... or was it 03?

[IndigoCat17]

It sounds like an alien

[agentsteve007]

I just caught one of these on my screen door and captured it to take a closer look. Just released it. bizarre little big creature with oval eyeballs. I can see how ppl would be intimidated by it's size.

[desparanga]

Great vid.

[firepower2003]

they are transmitters to the alien mothership reporting back activity on Earth

[SuperHaze25]

wow thats cool

[LaFolleSirene]

a real musician :)

[Cleitonrj93]

the cicadas here at the Brazil, have a sound better. :p

[romet747]

I dont wanna hear that on dark forest Creepy O_O

[IHateHarunoSakura]

That sounds so...... Cool.... 8D

[garra1300]

WOW. that is an amazing sound. I've never heard it from a cicada before. Its huge too.

[KennethMoreland]

Sounds like he's recieving an incoming transmission from space.

[chroylikesfish]

cicadas are awsome

[DaysForEveryoneAlive]

this is very cool

[tharailwaydra]

i was in virginia when the cicadas there unleashed, it was crazy, kinda like the apocalypse

[Konota0clone]

kudos to ya'!

[CNSS2008]

Wooow...

I never heard that before. That's beautiful!

[emgayyyy]

Woww

That is amazing!

Fantastic insects :)

[D00ml0rdKazzak]

In Soviet Russia, you sing to cicada.

[StanStickman]

I guess I'm the oddball, 'cause those suckers drive me nuts!

[slowdive922]

wow... really fascinating. if animals would have a warning sound for when the apocalypse was coming, this would be it. and also very mesmerizing!

[sussukhan]

Love ீ✿ஜீ✿ Love love cicadas!!beautifulll!!;-))ீ✿ஜீ­✿

[Pasakoye]

Cicada's here in Japan have a really cool sound if you haven't heard it before.

[TheAlu1510]

Very nice.

[snuffereet]

Love that sound, although I feel like i'm at the other side of a walkie talkie.

[whatevs808]

There's something strangely cute about Cicadas!

[twicon]

havent heard any cicada like that either.. and i live in greece where one tree have 20 of em

[drroberson4]

This is AMAZING!!! Thank you for posting it :)

[Henboy1987]

I know what you mean. I love hearing them in the morning.

[leontareos]

me and my stepdad found 1

it scared the crap out of me

so i looked it up

and then we played with it for a while

it was kinda funny

[Triksey15]

oh my God O_o I LOVE THAT SOUND. My parents was in Turkey, and when they came back, thay told me that when they were sleeping in hotel, always heard strange sound. Then thay saw those little creatures- cicada's xD

I really want to ceep them xDD

[tessitura1]

According to Socrates, cicadas were once human beings so overtaken with playing music that they forgot to eat and drink. After the deaths of these poor souls, the Muses had sympathy on them and transformed them into cicadas who would return every few years to sing their songs continuously.

Cicadas were obliged to tell the Muses the names of people who honored them, with the noblest being those who led a philosophical life.

[freqmart]

every different type of cicada produces a unique sound, so there's about 3000 different known cicada songs, pretty cool huh. The most common cicada in the US is the Magicicada, they live for 13-17 years, mostly underground though, they only live for a few weeks to a few months above ground. Interesting creatures. They even produce their sounds in a totally unique way. Unlike locusts and crickets, cicadas kinda flap a thin membrane on there abdomens (which are also hollow for sound resonance).

[AlexandMaxVideos]

They are fascinating... i just love waking up to that noise, cicadas let me know its summer! And i just LOVE the noise I lOVE it!!!!

[rukis1bitchz]

lol i but pretty annoying when your trying to go to sleep

[Diana8453]

I love these little guys. <3

[Sevki1995]

He's From Italia hahaha

[LlamaKristie]

theyre so fascinating (:

[AzKkMcFaN]

That doesn't sound any cicada i ever heard, where is that cicada from?

[lucybells0]

I'm wondering the same. If this had been the sound of the cicadas of my childhood, I might have been less terrified and more interested in them. It's much better than the high-pitched rattling, shreiking noise I'm accustomed to.

[siluruscat]

This was a cicada from an emergence of 17 year Magicicada in 2007 in the Chicago area.

[myriamrod]

That sounds like someone is screaming! i like the other ones they sound more peaceful!

[skyraptor]

ALIEN!

[metallicat1985]

loudest bug on the planet too.

[Wowbagger86]

If it held the tune at a little shorter intrvals.. it would sound like a classic sci-fi B-movie Lazer Gun ;)

[Wowbagger86]

Yes... Electric screwdriver, that's it ;)

[Wowbagger86]

Sounds like a powertool :P

[brunster4]

dude they are loud

[artisanrox]

omg...it sounds ghostly, like someone screaming! very interesting. I'm glad I don't live in the cicada cycle territory...even though insects are fascinating, this would make me lose sleep at night.

[okamiotaku]

its sooo cute :D

[cupwithhandles]

Lovely sound! Where was that taken?

[sexykio]

'they stay under ground for 17 years

[ShyriaDracnoir]

sounds more like a radio transmitter rather than something you'd hear out of an insect

[CometStar98]

Cicadas are awesome bugs, aren't they? They make peaceful, yet very loud noises.

[MewMewDorcha]

yes, thats right! i love cicadas, but my friends say, because i like bugs and snakes and so on, that i'm a freak.....thats mean.....-.- but i love cicadas so much! 5/5 and faves!

[rapierswordsman]

So beautiful

[414gbg]

Wow that is alien'y!

[gixer111]

Well its only been discovered, this very evening, that they are indeed, Aliens !!!

[Galianvincent1]

They Came from beyond our solar system!

The invasion of the Cicadas!

[Dynasti03]

that what a cicada sounds like it soungs like a machine

[captfalcon7]

Got to wait another 15 left to see another cicada sing

[Sweetpotatopie]

Where was this taken? I haven't heard that one locally.

[acejackalope]

I live outside of 13/17 yr cicada territory, so thanks for posting that.

[aidhanscicadas]

in nz we only have 1 yr cicadas. hatch outta eggs, fall to ground, eat, come out, and be a adult cicada and it goes on!

[keokeeka]

sounds like getting your tires changed

[aerotechway1]

Sounds like a blow dryer going on and off.

[NoneOfTheAnswers]

it's intersting.the sound is so...vivid!it's very beautiful.

[tenten933046]

Wow, the last time I heard this song is when I was in second grade.

[yotsubakowai]

sounds battery powered

[aJazzcat]

the cicadas i hear around my house in summer always make a sort of chirp then a loud rattling (sort of) that you can hear from way off

[flavor600]

creepy

[RodStewartfan1]

wow i never knew that! Cicadas scare me though! I don't like them!

[duranls1]

there is tons of cicadas here in Indiana, they are of course smaller but I love their song by night at this time of the year, the song of the cicadas, the fireflies illuminating the backyard and the song of the frogs when after a thunderstorm, those are components of a wonderful nature orchestra

[gopherdude]

my god what a beautiful song..

Here in canada we get those less mystical okanagan cicadas that go bee bee bee bdbdbdbddbdd

[massari4u]

Wow .. so that's what it is. I hear them in our backyard throughout the whole summer but never seen one.. surprised though, it is too big to be missed.

[lilardo]

Got to love this sounds for 3 months straight.

[PilotOfNorway91]

Sounds like a high pitched alarm!  But anyway, it's always nice to see the secrets of the wild. :) 5/5!

[dobermans4you2]

You should HEAR what they sound like RIGHT NOW in Church Point , Louisiana. I was just there visiting, and they were going on all night long.

[annspade]

OMG! Great capture here, too! The sound is almost alien... its own language. :) Talk about a million dollar shot for Nat'l Geographic! :D +5

[user1154101]

Good image and audio! These bugs make a very loud (and different) sound around here, and do it every summer...

I always think of being well into summer when these critters start making the sound. I hear a big jet nearby, must be an airport close...

Thanks for the bulletin! =)

[FireNanaki]

Wow, that's what Cicadas sound like! They make an amazing sound. I want to hear them, now, in real life. ^^

[EntoGeek]

Great video, great sound!

So many of us hear their chorus...but never get to see the pieces of the puzzle that make it up!

Location and Date? Or perhaps you already know which brood... :)

[reper0081]

they have two songs and that one is the ferrow there sing here right now

[Stickman550]

that was so awesome. iv always wondered how they make that weird sound. these things are all over the place right now. lol

[DarkBridget]

Bugs creep me out but this thing fascinates me. It's almost alien like. Very interesting sound.

[jamalsafieddine]

Sounds like jet engines warming up before take-off. Lol..

[RedEyedWhiteWolf]

interesting... :l

[hmf202]

I love that sound! I wish we had 17-year cicadas here. The Magicicada septendecim periodical cicada is the only one that makes that sound.

[skitch29]

Last year in Illinois, this song resonated throughout the day and into the evening. So great to hear again, I wish they were annual.

[satsuki26]

Me too, they're amazing creatures. I love them.

[jcmegabyte]

Most unusual Cicaida song I've ever heard. Weird and kind if nightmare-ish!

[Tkyo07]

The North American cicada is not good in singing.Scare me. Asian cicada sings better. It will make you lonesome.

[VOICESOF1]

Why lonesome?

[gangsterkitty245]

NO NOT THISSS NOISE!

=0

[wapogipofrog88]

Nice! This is a periodical cicada.

[Route625]

What a great video! The photography is excellent. You can actually see him making the sound. I love to hear them sing. Thanks!