Cicadas Are Coming, And These Household Items Attract Even More

"A million or two cicadas in my yard is not enough! I need to attract even more of them!" said absolutely no one ever in the history of the world and its dealings with cicadas.

According to the experts out there, in a few weeks the coming cicada emergence in Illinois will feature literally billions of these bugs popping out of the ground to make noise, mate, and collectively urinate on every square inch of land in the entire state of Illinois.

That should be more than enough cicadas for any Illinoisan, but if you're the sort of person who always wants more, there are some ways for you to attract cicadas from your neighbor's place to yours...assuming that you're the sort of lunatic that would want to do that.

Certain Household Items Make Just The Right Noise To Draw The Interest Of Nearby Cicadas, Prompting Them To Make The Move From Wherever They Are To Wherever You Are

Again, I'm not sure why any clear-thinking Illinois resident would want a bigger share of cicadas than Mother Nature is handing out, but sometimes good people do weird things.

When I say "household items," I don't want you to think that vacuuming the floor or running your dishwasher is going to cause every cicada in your neighborhood to head for your house, because it's not the indoor household items we're talking about, it's the outdoor ones.

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That's because, according to the experts, the sounds made by your lawnmower, regardless of the type you own, are really, really interesting and attractive to cicadas. The reason is that your lawnmower is loud and it vibrates, and cicadas really like that.

The cicadas look at the lawnmower as basically a chorus of cicada mating calls. The male cicadas want to join in on the sounds, and the females show up to mate with the origin of the sounds.

These items also produce a loud, rhythmic sound that says it's time for a cicada orgy in your yard: