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La Cigale (cicada insect - usually makes a noisy sound) 

American's fascinated by the cicada insect.

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Added: Jul-10-2012 Occurred On: Jun-26-2012
By: Jackrabit71
In: Other Entertainment
Tags: La Cigale, insect
Location: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (load item map)
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  • Cicadas swarm once every seven years. Last year was cicada summer. I did a couple of yoursays outdoors talking about other stuff and not thinking about the bugs at all. But the commenters wanted to know what the hell was going on in the background making all that racket. It was the cicadas.

    Posted Jul-10-2012 By 
    john1054 (5117.94)  

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    • @john1054 I swear these things only hit Toronto every bunch of years too, I haven't heard them in YEARS until this year. Everyone thinks I'm fucking nuts!!

      Posted Jul-10-2012 By 
      gatcontrol (195.00)  

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    • @gatcontrol ....they come out every year in our zone.... maybe in toronto there is less places for them to survive... The cicadas here hatch, then stay underground for 16 or 17 years. After feeding on tree roots all that time they come out for a few months in the summer, breed and die... Many of them get paved over in that time with new houses and roads being built, and there is less and less every year

      Posted Jul-10-2012 By 
      Jroc2877 (238.86)  

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    • @john1054

      Guangdong has a cicade summer this year
      But they are twice the size as this EU cicade

      Posted Jul-10-2012 By 
      H3dgehog (474.50)  
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    • @Jroc2877 wow, these things endure a pretty funky life cycle

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    • @Jroc2877 I think the cicadas we find here in Ontario are a different species of cicadas. The famous ones in Southerh France are apparently much larger and make more noise the smaller ones that live here.

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  • the ones in the vid come every year.we have the 17 year brood and a few 13 year broods here in ohio.we allways called them end of summer bugs as a kid.when they start fall if close

    Posted Jul-10-2012 By 
    hilljack998 (474.16)  

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  • Apparently they're good to eat too. If I was close to starvation I'd eat a few hundred of those things no problem

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  • That is a small one

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  • Love those things. Sound of summer. That little guy is probably older than most the kids in the video. 17 years in some cases.

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    Blank Reg (150.66)

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  • when these things get around the backyard the noise is so goddamn annoying. sometimes i throw rocks up into the trees to get'em to shut up but they always start back up 10 minutes later. i was happy one day when i saw a huge wasp rip one down from a tree. he wrestled it around on the ground and then ripped its belly open and ate its insides out. too bad i didnt get it on camera.

    Posted Jul-10-2012 By 
    Thunderscratch (370.86)

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