# Cover your ears! Brood XIII will emerge from the earth soon!
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cover-your-ears-brood-xiii-will-emerge-from-the-earth-soon/29616
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [May 21, 2007, 9:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cover-your-ears-brood-xiii-will-emerge-from-the-earth-soon/29616 "2007-05-21T09:00:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 9:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cover-your-ears-brood-xiii-will-emerge-from-the-earth-soon/29616/1 "2007-05-21T09:00:24Z")
Creepy. After being dormant for 17 years, they will all crawl to the surface of the Earth within 2 days of each other.
> **[Midwest Prepares for Invasion of Cicadas After 17-Year Absence](http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/05/21/midwest-prepares-for-invasion-cicadas-after-17-year-absence.html)**
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> Residents of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana are preparing for Brood XIII, a strain of cicadas set to emerge from underground after a 17-year hiatus.
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### Author:  [@Daddie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Daddie)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 9:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cover-your-ears-brood-xiii-will-emerge-from-the-earth-soon/29616/2 "2007-05-21T09:06:06Z")
WTF?
Cicadas are pretty cool tho, they fuck up other bugs, but they are pretty goofy and always fly into me.
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### Author:  [@Avatar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Avatar)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 9:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cover-your-ears-brood-xiii-will-emerge-from-the-earth-soon/29616/3 "2007-05-21T09:49:10Z")
Looks like something from starship troopers.
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### Author:  [@ILCisDEAD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILCisDEAD)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 9:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cover-your-ears-brood-xiii-will-emerge-from-the-earth-soon/29616/4 "2007-05-21T09:55:56Z")
they really should just cut back production severely, then when there isnt enough food most of them die, and less will be around next 17 years
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 9:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cover-your-ears-brood-xiii-will-emerge-from-the-earth-soon/29616/5 "2007-05-21T09:58:06Z")
Cut back production? They’re bugs?
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### Author:  [@ILCisDEAD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILCisDEAD)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 10:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cover-your-ears-brood-xiii-will-emerge-from-the-earth-soon/29616/6 "2007-05-21T10:01:42Z")
they come every 17 years, so if there is less crops, there is less food… they starve and die, and do not reproduce as many for the next 17 years when they emerge
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 10:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cover-your-ears-brood-xiii-will-emerge-from-the-earth-soon/29616/7 "2007-05-21T10:04:59Z")
“Their main goal is mating”
I wish I was one
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 10:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cover-your-ears-brood-xiii-will-emerge-from-the-earth-soon/29616/8 "2007-05-21T10:26:13Z")
[quote=“boxxa,post:7,topic:29616"”]
“Their main goal is mating”
I wish I was one
[/quote]
If that’s the criteria, then I guess I am one.
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 10:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cover-your-ears-brood-xiii-will-emerge-from-the-earth-soon/29616/9 "2007-05-21T10:27:19Z")
eff that.
i don’t want to mate.
i want to mate all over her face!
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### Author:  [@Pass\_McGass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Pass_McGass)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 11:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cover-your-ears-brood-xiii-will-emerge-from-the-earth-soon/29616/10 "2007-05-21T11:13:42Z")
> The red-eyed, shrimp-sized, flying insects don’t bite or sting. But they are known for mating calls that produce a din that can overpower ringing telephones, lawn mowers and power tools.
that’s badass.
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### Author:  [@Avatar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Avatar)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 11:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cover-your-ears-brood-xiii-will-emerge-from-the-earth-soon/29616/11 "2007-05-21T11:14:20Z")
Is mating once after lying dormant every 17 years about the average around here?
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 11:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cover-your-ears-brood-xiii-will-emerge-from-the-earth-soon/29616/12 "2007-05-21T11:21:42Z")
[quote=“Avatar,post:11,topic:29616"”]
Is mating once after lying dormant every 17 years about the average around here?
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YES.
haha, well… if you consider being birthed mating…
and what’s the average user age… it has to be more than 17.
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 11:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cover-your-ears-brood-xiii-will-emerge-from-the-earth-soon/29616/13 "2007-05-21T11:38:50Z")
[quote=“Avatar,post:11,topic:29616"”]
Is mating once after lying dormant every 17 years about the average around here?
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Don’t forget making loud insect noises in an attempt to attract mates. (Thinking you can pick up girls with cars with fart cans…)