Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for July 06, 2021

Four years.

Ok Tim….these guys look like the Martians from the movie “Quatermass and the Pit”…

My snooze alarm must be defective.

Now if only I could use that excuse for being 4 years late for work.

Real world it would be different Species of Cicadas. In the Brewster universe I’d say some are just early risers.

Maybe it’s like a Groundhog thing.

They wake up, see how much of a pall the current president is casting over the country, and think, stuff that, if I wait another 4 years maybe they’ll have a better one.

Those 13 year cicadas are type A.

Now THAT is my kind of snooze alarm!

Successful cicadas emerge in prime number cycles.

Gonna need that snooze alarm in about 4 years.

Cicadian Rhythm?

Interesting that both intervals are prime numbers

Lucky for the 13 year cicadas – 2017 was a much better year than 2021!

There’s a theory cicadas’ life cycles are large prime numbers so they don’t accidentally sync up with their predators’ life cycles. This prevents any predators from adapting to eating only cicadas.

There’s the problem. Our cicadas here in east Tennessee hit the snooze alarm. Haven’t seen nor heard one. Disappointed!

Someone needs to be off-screen with a drum set to give that the rim shot that deserved.

I dont like this one

If they crossbred would the resulting brood have a 15 year cycle?