This makes me feel uncomfortable

darkkittykatt · 5 months

that is beautiful

PricklyPricklyPear · 5 months

It's probably not gross to anyone who was a kid in a place where they swarm. The 17 year cicadas came when I was like 8 or 9, and we used to throw handfuls of them at each other the playground at recess. They blanketed the ground for days or weeks. I remember my bike wheels making a constant crunching noise when I rode down the sidewalk. You can't really be grossed by something that ubiquitous, I think.

a3wagner · 5 months

And that's how we get Shedinja.

JanitorMaster · 5 months

I find this rather interesting.

multiplesifl · 5 months

Those wings are a very pretty color.

MFchimichanga · 5 months

Now imagine that coming out of your ass.

neotheism · 5 months

what a cute baby..

4vradrmr · 5 months

I thought I might let you know that you posted in the wrong subreddit. Nature is NEVER wtf. Humans are WTF. Not only have we removed ourselves from the natural selection process but we have apparently made it our mission as a species to fuck up the rest of the intricate web that is nature.

megabetty · 5 months

Is that a cicada?

TheAccountWithNoName · 5 months

The miracle of birth..?

kirbyfood · 5 months

anyone else just start hearing the cicada sound in your head?

MysteryLie · 5 months

I think it's cool, doesn't bug me at all.

agent0fch4os · 5 months

What the hell is the point of shedding your body just for a pair of wings? Why cant it just grow the damn wings without having to shed its body? What does it think it is, A transformer? Whats it gonna do next change into a yellow camaro?

koala_overlord14 · 5 months

don't let it absorb android 17

ChatGarou · 5 months

We have cicadas all over the place here in East Texas. When I was a kid I'd find them on the ground about to molt and put them in an aquarium so I could watch it. Takes about an hour for them to get out and their carapice to harden enough for them to fly again.

Ferniff · 5 months

And this is what they sound like. The sound of summer

Nosferatudamus · 5 months

I'm shedding the skin off my horror boner just like that!

desenagrator · 5 months

Shouldn't have left the Redbull out.

BubbleWrapZen · 5 months

I immediately heard "Vicarious" by Tool after viewing this.

immapizza · 5 months

It's face makes me think of jabba the hut, I'm not sure why.....

Vikaroo · 5 months

As a southerner, all this does is make me think of their summer music. I live too far north to hear them in the summertime, and I miss it.

bombshellen · 5 months

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'MMMMMMM FFFFFFFFFFRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

TheBeardlessSquirrel · 5 months

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plateofeggs · 5 months

edgar suit

kissy_re · 5 months

In elementary school, I used to find their old casings all over the trees and on the ground and proceed to stick them to my clothing. I would chase all the boys around during recess with them stuck to my clothing and they would be little pussies and tell the teacher.

Stuckinaloop · 5 months

Those are good bait.

Look_at_that_Fetus · 5 months

Wow, that's kind of beautiful in all honesty.

JessHWV · 5 months

I used to find their little exoskeletons on trees and I would put them on my hands like finger puppets.

joeyurso · 5 months

Was it a butterfly, Clarice?

[deleted] · 5 months

Your username makes me uncomfortable.

PureMDC · 5 months

It's a cicada bug. When I was younger I was climbing a tree when I all at once realized there was one in my face. I panicked and let go of the tree, bad idea, I fell to the ground maybe 15 feet into my mothers garden which she yelled at me for ruining. I went back to look at it after and it was the shell left behind. I felt like a fool, a very sore fool.

SpoutsLazyOpinions · 5 months

yay - relatively few insectophobe comments

Doktor_Rob · 5 months

Cicadas are quite interesting in that they use Prime Numbers to their advantage. They hatch out in prime numbered cycles of 3, 5, 13 and 17 years. This puts their predators at a dissadvantage because they cannot rely on a hatching each spring or each other spring or even each fourth spring. This means that cicadas are unlikely to have a natural predator.... All because of MATH.

nickyd123 · 5 months

yo dawg, i heard you like bugs, so a made a bug coming out of a bug

FindingBigfoot · 5 months

whoa. delicious.

Arizzletron · 5 months

I_HATE_YOU_SO_MUCH

tubabacon · 5 months

Cell?

Skellum · 5 months

Just a Cicada. Whats awful about this is how damn loud that thing will be.

Chriswalken12398 · 5 months

*clicks link before bed. *close lickity split nopenopenope

mspinkyy · 5 months

As soon as it started moving I noped out of there. Jesus Christ. Glad to live in England.

lokcyn · 5 months

As a child, we'd pick up cicadas and feel the magical flutter of their wings in our closed hands... I was 30+ and working a night shift before being blessed with the opportunity to see one molting... that night, I held my camera for about an hour to get in-progress pics of the event... from the inverted bat look to the super fresh wings being uncurled... I have photographed their lost wings using the macro setting and have sold works of art of merely the veiny wings... I was recently lucky enough to video a cicada killer dragging a cicada from ground up a tree... what a sight that was!... the cicadas in asia are much more colorful and I hope to visit during mating season to see them there some day.

abom420 · 5 months

My god, This is spiders all over.

I couldn't be in a room a spider was till I realized one day in my garage they eat mosquitos, now I love the fuckers and leave their webs up.

After 3 summers ago, these cicadas replaced spiders on my list.

but as you said this is so damn beatiful they are now off. I wish I could just evolve into flying one day, that would be the shit.

Are cicadas real life pokemon? (image of that dude making shocked face)

NDORHKS · 5 months

what? caterpie is evolving!

barden1069 · 5 months

I've watched a cicada do that IRL (albeit very slowly lol). It's incredibly cool.

brianpepinski · 5 months

I kill so many cicadas in the summer, I fucking hate those things

hamguin47 · 5 months

I hate cicadas luckily for me I rarely ever see them being that they stay in the trees but I can definitely hear them

SuperMalley96 · 5 months

It looks 3D...

Lecrazycatlady · 5 months

It saddens me that nature is scary to people.

ballsack66 · 5 months

I watched this process in person as a child and it was fucking awesome.

rieldealIV · 5 months

That was awesome.

pomegranati · 5 months

If you've ever seen one do it in real life, it's pretty cool. I saw one in boy scout camp. I watched it. Its wings came out soft and vibrantly colored like that one. It was neat to hold it on my finger, and watched as the wings extend, harden, and changed color.

tongue__punch · 5 months

This is what my nightmares are made of.

ohsnapitsrags · 5 months

WHOA. NSFL TAG PLEASE. AND DON'T BITCH ABOUT MY CAPSLOCK. I'M SCREAMING AT YOU.

Scarlet- · 5 months

That's the best time to eat them by the way. When they're soft skinned and a little moist.

merc908 · 5 months

that is cool

Corrugo · 5 months

So I'm the only one who hears a tiny voice saying 'Freedom!'

Little-Nicky-lover · 5 months

I don't want to click it. What is it?

saywee123 · 5 months

I would do this if I could. No lie.

heiliger82 · 5 months

Very cool. Now kill it with fire.

SolidBlake · 5 months

Interesting? Sure.

Beautiful? It's a god damn cicada. Even so, If I broke through my skin with a newly-grown pair of membrane-thin wings and left a dried carcass behind, it would not be beautiful.

ExcessiveRetardation · 5 months

Kill it with fire. Or a shoe

AmyBubble · 5 months

FuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuck

WTF

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