Major US city will be overrun by sex-crazed insects within weeks as rare ‘cicada-geddon’ event releases more than a trillion insects

MATE-seeking cicadas will emerge in Las Vegas at the same time as the cicada-geddon event, where thousands of creatures cocooned for more than a decade will hatch.

The extremely rare cicada-geddon event in 17 Eastern/Midwestern states consists of trillions of cicadas appearing from underground on two different 13- and 17-year cycles.

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Coincidentally, this is happening in May/June – at the same time that the sex-crazed species of Las Vegas will take over.

There will be a large number of cicadas in the US at the same time due to the emergence of all three broods.

However, cicadas from the cicada-geddon event will not pass through western Oklahoma.

Male Las Vegas Apache cicadas, specifically, are determined to find a female to mate with.

They do this through a distinctly loud mating call, vibrating a membrane on their body called the “timbal.”

The mating call can disturb locals because it sounds like a constant ringing.

A large portion of people living in Las Vegas sleep during the day due to their night jobs, which makes cicadas even more frustrating.

Jeff Knight, a Nevada state entomologist, explained that his organization receives calls about cicadas singing too loudly every year.

“We get calls when they sing too loud and probably a third to a half of the population of Las Vegas is trying to sleep during the day,” Knight told Las Vegas Review Journal.

Cicadas jump from trees and bushes and can also surprise unsuspecting people.

“They are a bit of a nuisance, especially if one comes out of a bush near people and scares them,” Knight added.

However, on the bright side, cicadas are harmless when it comes to wanting anything to do with humans.

“They don’t transmit diseases and they don’t bite.”

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It is extremely rare for cicadas that are part of the 13-year cycle and the 17-year cycle to emerge at the same time.

This year represents an overlap that only happens every 221 years.

“The co-emergence of any two broods from different cycles is rare because the cycles are both prime numbers,” said John Cooley, founder of the Periodical Cicada Project and professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UConn. Live Science.

“Any 13 and 17 brood will only co-emerge once every 13 x 17 = 221 years.”

However, different broods of cicadas will emerge in different states and will not actually appear in the same locations.

Cooley explained that the cicada-geddon event will bring an exceptional amount of insects to several states.

What are cicadas?

Unlike annual cicadas, periodic cicadas only appear en masse every 13 to 17 years.

• There are more than 3,000 species of cicadas, but only seven are periodic cicadas (Magicicada).
• Most species have a black body, red eyes and red-orange veins on the wings.
• They are only found in North America, while annual cicadas can appear throughout the rest of the world.
• This year’s double event will feature Brood XIII – which appears every 17 years in the Midwest and Brood XIX.
• According to the Environmental Protection Agency, cicadas are not harmful to humans, pets, home gardens or crops.

Source: National Geographic

Cicadas buzz around for just a few weeks and find their mates, lay eggs, and then die.

“It will be a fairly normal periodic cicada year, with many flying adults active for about three weeks, depending on how the spring goes, as the adults complete their mating and egg-laying activities,” Cooley said.

“Then the adults will die and things will go back to normal.

“About six weeks later, the eggs will hatch, but most people won’t notice this as the hatchlings are tiny and inconspicuous.”

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