Great timing! this is essentially how they function, they don't really have mouths or anything to use to defend itself. They basically mate and die. They are a great food source for many animals. Because of this they typically go dormant for a prime number of years (3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, etc.) that way two swarms are less likely to popup at the same time. They just produce lots of babies in hopes that some survive. Pretty cool. I wonder if this is just a single swarm or multiple that happened to fall on the same year.
Im up in the area pede, come to find out this is the 17 year batch. No lie, it is biblical and the being the 17 year cycle leads me to believe the plan is coming along nicey
Great timing! this is essentially how they function, they don't really have mouths or anything to use to defend itself. They basically mate and die. They are a great food source for many animals. Because of this they typically go dormant for a prime number of years (3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, etc.) that way two swarms are less likely to popup at the same time. They just produce lots of babies in hopes that some survive. Pretty cool. I wonder if this is just a single swarm or multiple that happened to fall on the same year.
Im up in the area pede, come to find out this is the 17 year batch. No lie, it is biblical and the being the 17 year cycle leads me to believe the plan is coming along nicey
That is awesome lol