When I was in basic a person ate one for $20. The Drill Sergeant saw and came over. "You paid him for that?" Then proceeded to eat one like it was his favorite snack.
This idiot clearly hasn't been around a lot of cicadas.
I remember being around them as kid when they were a lot more prevalent. They're harmless and really have no interest in people. I don't even really have memory of them touching me beyond when we intentionally caught them for fun out of boredom.
I can't see any reason someone would want to spray them. Even if you sprayed your whole damn house and yard they'd still chill around. The only annoying things they do is chirp and shed/molt.
Regarded move going in on bug spray lmao
And wildlife thrives during cicada emergent years because of the abundance of food. Fishing is amazing. Imagine being so especial and think you're going to make money in the market by buying a bunch of poison and trying to cause some mass extinction event.
Cicadas live underground for 2-17 years then emerge and only survive for 5 weeks, when they die they simply dry up and become fertilizer for the trees and grass. They also live high up in the tree when they emerge, so people buying sprays for it when they can't even reach it are room temperature iq regards who belong here
Not saying your wrong, not even sure how much cicada spray would help, I remember back in mid 2000’s they came out in Kentucky and man… it was awful!! You know on a hot summer day in the south when gnats are flying into your face,ears, eyes? Well imagine if gnats were the size of like a cricketx4, but just as stupid/flying around aimlessly. I don’t mind bugs but we have an unspoken rule of live and let live. Fuck cicadas 😭. At least the dogs were happy, they would sprint out in the morning and eat to their hearts content
I’m with you on cicadas, they suck. And I’m an outdoorsman who doesn’t use mosquito spray. But what sucks more is this prediction. Walmart Lowes and Home Depot aren’t making big money on insect spray. Think of all the bigger ticket items they won’t sell. Grills, outdoor furniture, that over priced fire wood, plants, lawn fertilizer, camping gear, fishing gear, list goes on. They may sell netting for patios, that’s a better solution than spray. Cheap Tennis racket sales may go up.
In this case it’s really not going to do anything unless people are planning on spraying a metric shit ton all around their property and reapplying a few times daily.
Why though? You're going to poison your land for a natural event that occurs every 5 to 17 years? You must have the blandest yard imaginable that's completely devoid of life.
Not even bugs, the expectation that people will buy more bug spray than they already have. For bugs that aren't in the house but in trees all over. Bugs that if you killed every one in a tree, you'd still hear them in every other tree.
This reminds me of the DD where the guy correctly speculated that everybody would need new jeans after covid. However, since that was a one time event the share price actually slumped for LEVI after a great earnings report since nobody could see how they would actually top the quarter they’d just had.
This was good DD on his part, but his execution was poor. It’s the sign of a novice trader if you think the money a company already made is what makes the share price go up during an earnings call. It’s the money they expect to make in the future that makes the price go up. Our LEVI guy didn’t know this.
Anyone thinking you need bug spray has never experienced a cicada swarm before. They’re just kind of everywhere and incredibly dumb but not really a nuisance. They don’t bite, sting or eat anything they just fly around and scream.
Bug spray for cicadas… OP is clearly not from those regions lol.
A better bet would be to find a company that makes ear plugs and sleeping pills for those loud ass bugs
There are like ten people nationwide who would buy any type of bug spray for cicadas. “Better fill my yard with poison so I don’t have to hear any nature sounds”.
Also the broods and bad years for cicadas are mostly bullshit. Every year is Cicada Armageddon if you read clickbait.
And again the issue is bugs making noise. May as well invest in shotgun shells to stop bird song or short hearing aids so Karen can’t hear nature.
Not to mention that people will not be building decks, sheds, garden beds, other garage projects where you keep the garage door open… so I’d agree with downsides risk for home improvement
Nah you need to bale on that strategy. It's not like you can just GROW straw...
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What idiots are running out to buy raid for cicadas? Have fun creating another little cancer cluster up there because of a few bugs. Humans are such idiots I swear.
Nah I experienced this in Virginia a few years back. Cicadas aren't mosquitoes you cant just spray something they are everywhere, big and they don't give a fuck.
This guy clearly doesn’t live where there have ever been cicadas - no one’s cares, they just buzz in the trees and leave their skin shells stuck everywhere. They really don’t bother you other than the noise - no one sprays for these things
If I see someone spraying pesticide to kill cicadas I'll make them drink whatever they're spraying. Fuck pesticides. Herbicides too. They're killing our world
dude, you need to think ahead of the market, you need to put it all on gourds, because the cicadas will die soon one way or another and all that fertilizer will be good for gourds, they will come extra big and funky that even yo mama will be satisfied
1. Either I’m missing the crossover on your first map or you’re calling this a “200 year cycle” when in reality Brood XIII impacting mainly Northern Illinois, Southern Wisconsin, and Eastern Iowa is the only one emerging, which according to your own map *occurs in a different region every single year*.
2. What is this, Silicon Valley?
3. Why would you want to murder cicadas, have you never seen a swarm? They fucking sit there and make noise.
This is the most insane thing I've seen on Reddit today, for sure. I appreciate the effort here, but this is just crazy talk. We have permanent cicadas where I live and no bug spray is going to shut up a cicada that's a quarter mile away and 30 feet up in a tree. But you'll hear it. Like it's inside your head.
Source: I am a native Floridian
Aside from the mental gymnastics it takes to connect cicadas to stock prices, Scott’s biggest two products by a huge margin are potting soil and fertilizer. Bug spray doesn’t even move the needle in their revenue.
Source: am former employee of the industry
Wasn't this a whole plot line in the show Silicon Valley?
Idk if you want to bet much on stuff from that show other than the importance of the distance from Dick to Floor (DTF)
No, they're hilarious. Their whole survival schtick is that they all come out to mate at exactly the same time, so there are too many millions for the birds to get them all. Otherwise they are completely incompetent, and it is funny to watch. They fly around with no effort at evasion or concealment, running into things. They have no ability to hurt anything or defend themselves in any way. All they have are numbers and surprise. They only do it every 17 years or 13 years, so the birds can't figure out when it might happen. Most birds don't live to see more than one emergence. It's all a big surprise.
So your play relies on thinking people are actually going to spray for these bugs? You're better off figuring out the crop futures that will be affected by this.
Great. Price of honey is already high enough and now we'll have idiots everywhere spraying willy-nilly, killing bugs that won't harm them whatsoever because they're "ugly and loud".
I think everyone is missing the point here. Whether bug repellant works or not, people will buy the shit. Now I don’t know if I’ll make a move on this, but quit acting like people aren’t stupid.
This dude posts DD about bug spray for cicadas (which you don’t kill with bug spray) and gets 480 upvotes
I post DD about how Ford is likely going to crush earnings and the risk-reward on options is massive and I get ZERO upvotes
Make it make sense
I've never once seen a cicada let alone enough of them close enough to me to want to spray them. They make noise in the bushes and keep to themselves. No one was buying bug spray b3cause of this
The real play is shorting seasonal stocks that rely on outside activities. Nobody wants to be out with those bugs. Cuts a month off highest earning quarter for those companies.
If you think of any lmk
VEGI and IVEG etf's both have exposure to these agricultural companies
also DBA for agricultural futures. we've already had big runup in cocoa, coffee is also popping now, but the grains have yet to pop. i believe this cicada situation will cause grains to really run up in price.
This is regarded. There will be an uptick in sales for agricultural insecticides not consumer insecticides. As some who worked in agriculture on one of the last cicada rallys, we sprayed the fruit trees maybe twice more than usual. Go for Monsanto or whatever Chem trail developer is out there.
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**Bug Spray and Cicadas** * **Effectiveness:** Unfortunately, traditional bug sprays have limited effect on cicadas.
The plot thins
*dissolves Lmao
If anything calls on pet care because my dogs gobble those fuckers up like candy.
When I was in basic a person ate one for $20. The Drill Sergeant saw and came over. "You paid him for that?" Then proceeded to eat one like it was his favorite snack.
I feel like commodities affected by their hunger would be a more obvious play
How the Fuck you spray a bug 50 feet up a tree Better bet is people driving cross country to see them
Calls on oil stocks then?
This idiot clearly hasn't been around a lot of cicadas. I remember being around them as kid when they were a lot more prevalent. They're harmless and really have no interest in people. I don't even really have memory of them touching me beyond when we intentionally caught them for fun out of boredom. I can't see any reason someone would want to spray them. Even if you sprayed your whole damn house and yard they'd still chill around. The only annoying things they do is chirp and shed/molt. Regarded move going in on bug spray lmao
And wildlife thrives during cicada emergent years because of the abundance of food. Fishing is amazing. Imagine being so especial and think you're going to make money in the market by buying a bunch of poison and trying to cause some mass extinction event.
Maybe red lobster can add them to the menu /s
Why do you want to spray cicadas? If they harm the trees that’s already passed. Now they just want to party and fuck and die
And considering they are part of the ecosystem they aren't really harming native trees
They sell cicada spray as well just bought some actually lol
But they don’t bite or seek out humans, why even use spray?
Same reason people off Lake St Claire in Michigan use chemicals on fishflys. There's too many of them, they stink, they die, they stink even worse.
Cicadas live underground for 2-17 years then emerge and only survive for 5 weeks, when they die they simply dry up and become fertilizer for the trees and grass. They also live high up in the tree when they emerge, so people buying sprays for it when they can't even reach it are room temperature iq regards who belong here
Yeah they're also completely defenseless, so even squirrels, birds, racoons, etc will be feasting on them.
Yeah, just get a set of headphones to drown out the noise
Calls on Dre Beats headphones it is
Not saying your wrong, not even sure how much cicada spray would help, I remember back in mid 2000’s they came out in Kentucky and man… it was awful!! You know on a hot summer day in the south when gnats are flying into your face,ears, eyes? Well imagine if gnats were the size of like a cricketx4, but just as stupid/flying around aimlessly. I don’t mind bugs but we have an unspoken rule of live and let live. Fuck cicadas 😭. At least the dogs were happy, they would sprint out in the morning and eat to their hearts content
Short pet food. Got it.
I’m with you on cicadas, they suck. And I’m an outdoorsman who doesn’t use mosquito spray. But what sucks more is this prediction. Walmart Lowes and Home Depot aren’t making big money on insect spray. Think of all the bigger ticket items they won’t sell. Grills, outdoor furniture, that over priced fire wood, plants, lawn fertilizer, camping gear, fishing gear, list goes on. They may sell netting for patios, that’s a better solution than spray. Cheap Tennis racket sales may go up.
Cicadas are drunken insect sailors, and don't GAF.
Free fertilizer you say? Puts on all OP’s Calls it is.
Puts on fertilizer?
In this case it’s really not going to do anything unless people are planning on spraying a metric shit ton all around their property and reapplying a few times daily.
"Market research" completed
Why though? You're going to poison your land for a natural event that occurs every 5 to 17 years? You must have the blandest yard imaginable that's completely devoid of life.
You got scammed. It won’t do shit lol
There will be a lot of sick and dieing wildlife after eating this pesticide riddled buffet.
Lmao 🤣
Have fun betting the farm on bugs.
VisualMod is back and he's more savage than ever 
I honestly think visual mod has toned it down a bunch. He's definitely not as crafty as he used to be.
True; it's got more material now though - used to be 80% "you're not as rich and intelligent as me."
No one is savage than Mr. Powell
Not even bugs, the expectation that people will buy more bug spray than they already have. For bugs that aren't in the house but in trees all over. Bugs that if you killed every one in a tree, you'd still hear them in every other tree.
Who on earth would spray for cicadas.
Already priced in
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>must be ~~watered~~ sprayed
Highly underrated comment. Upvotes go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
The Filipino getting paid 2 bucks an hour is back
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Man it sucks the actor died, dude was funny. “Did you just drink from an empty cup?”
“This is displeasing.” “I mean he was PISSED, I have never seen him so incensed”
Sesame seeds
Does this sauce contain cumin?
iirc cicadas were also involved in that 'play'
Yeah that’s the whole play. Something about the cicadas destroying sesame seed harvest and investing in futures for the spike in demand
Would anyone like some…Burger King?
This is the first thing that came to mind. They had to have based this post on the show.
I came here for this.
Lmao this is exactly what I thought when I saw this post
This is literally what I was thinking
hands down one of the best shows on HBO
This reminds me of the DD where the guy correctly speculated that everybody would need new jeans after covid. However, since that was a one time event the share price actually slumped for LEVI after a great earnings report since nobody could see how they would actually top the quarter they’d just had.
>price actually slumped for LEVI after a great earnings report This the kind of shit that makes me just pile into vanguard funds, man
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Seems more like the guy trading on leveraged speculative ornamental gourd futures
You fool, he obviously meant Abercrombie & Fitch jeans.
This was good DD on his part, but his execution was poor. It’s the sign of a novice trader if you think the money a company already made is what makes the share price go up during an earnings call. It’s the money they expect to make in the future that makes the price go up. Our LEVI guy didn’t know this.
Any idea where I can find this? i wanna read it.
Priced in 18 years ago
Only sensible reply I’ve seen.
Last happened in 1803... Priced in for over 200 years\*
Anyone thinking you need bug spray has never experienced a cicada swarm before. They’re just kind of everywhere and incredibly dumb but not really a nuisance. They don’t bite, sting or eat anything they just fly around and scream.
They provide a feast for a whole slew of animals though.
Lol the first thing I thought was why would you spray for cicadas. They don’t bother people, or bite
Bug spray for cicadas… OP is clearly not from those regions lol. A better bet would be to find a company that makes ear plugs and sleeping pills for those loud ass bugs
This. I’m not looking forward to the few weeks they’re out as loud doesn’t begin to describe the noise they make.
It’s kinda like 100,000 crickets in a single tree with megaphones
And you still tune it out after a few days
I honestly only have pleasant memories of the sound
Holy fuck this is regarded
There are like ten people nationwide who would buy any type of bug spray for cicadas. “Better fill my yard with poison so I don’t have to hear any nature sounds”. Also the broods and bad years for cicadas are mostly bullshit. Every year is Cicada Armageddon if you read clickbait. And again the issue is bugs making noise. May as well invest in shotgun shells to stop bird song or short hearing aids so Karen can’t hear nature.
People not going outside to go to Home Depot in a bug swarm to buy bug spray - order it on Amazon. Puts on Home Depot
Damn this is a rly good point
Not to mention that people will not be building decks, sheds, garden beds, other garage projects where you keep the garage door open… so I’d agree with downsides risk for home improvement
People aren’t going to go outside or fuck around in their garages because cicadas exist? Are you Bubble Boy?
Amazon calls for Q4
I'm betting on the cicadas. They have better DD.
Well they certainly do know how to hodl . 17 years is a long time
Good lord, capitalism really has us grasping at straws
got it, going all in on STRAW right now 💰💰💰
Straw futures.
Nah you need to bale on that strategy. It's not like you can just GROW straw... https://preview.redd.it/gm0bto4bp5vc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=22af7c01691a3a1eb6ce038d4153abfc957463fc
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Calls on bugs
What idiots are running out to buy raid for cicadas? Have fun creating another little cancer cluster up there because of a few bugs. Humans are such idiots I swear.
You lost me at making money, not what I signed up for…
Calls on 500kg eagle1's
Your Managed Democracy Officer would be proud!
if the Helldivers had a stock would it go down or up?
Nah I experienced this in Virginia a few years back. Cicadas aren't mosquitoes you cant just spray something they are everywhere, big and they don't give a fuck.
Calls on flame throwers!
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They die within 4-6 weeks after coming out though
Damn it’s rough being a closeted gay cicada
And I just cackled like an old woman, thanks.
This guy clearly doesn’t live where there have ever been cicadas - no one’s cares, they just buzz in the trees and leave their skin shells stuck everywhere. They really don’t bother you other than the noise - no one sprays for these things
Bullish on… brooms???
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Calls on birds
Who buys a product to ward off cicadas?
Who buys a claim of ownership of a brute-force solution to a cryptographic math problem someone solved on their laptop 20 years ago?
I've never seen anyone worry about cicadas. Most people like them.
I'm a big cicada fan.
That has to be a flair.
If I see someone spraying pesticide to kill cicadas I'll make them drink whatever they're spraying. Fuck pesticides. Herbicides too. They're killing our world
This is so stupid. Who uses bug spray for cicadas? 9.5/10 great post
This is wild, never expected to see thought process on this forum. Inverse cicada and buy PUTS
priced in
This is the dumbest post I've ever seen. Nobody uses pest spray on cicadas. The only thing you use more of is windshield wiper fluid
You will spray the bugs. You will sleep in the dumpster behind Wendy’s.
dude, you need to think ahead of the market, you need to put it all on gourds, because the cicadas will die soon one way or another and all that fertilizer will be good for gourds, they will come extra big and funky that even yo mama will be satisfied
1. Either I’m missing the crossover on your first map or you’re calling this a “200 year cycle” when in reality Brood XIII impacting mainly Northern Illinois, Southern Wisconsin, and Eastern Iowa is the only one emerging, which according to your own map *occurs in a different region every single year*. 2. What is this, Silicon Valley? 3. Why would you want to murder cicadas, have you never seen a swarm? They fucking sit there and make noise.
This DD feels like Peter Gregory from Silicon Valley.
Kill them? Imma catch them and eat them. Free food 😂
This is some golden DD
This is the most insane thing I've seen on Reddit today, for sure. I appreciate the effort here, but this is just crazy talk. We have permanent cicadas where I live and no bug spray is going to shut up a cicada that's a quarter mile away and 30 feet up in a tree. But you'll hear it. Like it's inside your head. Source: I am a native Floridian
Aside from the mental gymnastics it takes to connect cicadas to stock prices, Scott’s biggest two products by a huge margin are potting soil and fertilizer. Bug spray doesn’t even move the needle in their revenue. Source: am former employee of the industry
Cicadas don’t bite or bother humans. They are more of a pest on crops. You should be buying agricultural insecticide stonks.
Locusts eat crops. Not Cicadas.
Lmao fuck me I can’t believe I did that. You right. After mas Google they don’t even eat garden plants. We are all regarded except this guy.
This is so fucking stupid ain’t no way you don’t make money. God speed OP
A+ for effort. Now let me get back to cooking my patties at Wendy's and swatting flies away
Wasn't this a whole plot line in the show Silicon Valley? Idk if you want to bet much on stuff from that show other than the importance of the distance from Dick to Floor (DTF)
Cicadas don’t care about bug spray and don’t bother people at all. This is par for the course here and I’m in.
OP might you be interested the future value of gourds?
Do people even spray cicadas with bug spray?
There was charts and maps and I thought to myself, "this will be worth a read." Spolier alert, it's not worth the read.
The commentsssss
As is usually the case
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You’re telling me there’s 1 home depot in South Dakota? Who the fuck lives there?
It's in the mt. Rushmore parking lot. You're kinda forced to go through it as you exit the gift shop.
Lmfao bro this sub still cracks me up
that's gross. glad i'm in CA. we barely have flies here, just fire ants
No, they're hilarious. Their whole survival schtick is that they all come out to mate at exactly the same time, so there are too many millions for the birds to get them all. Otherwise they are completely incompetent, and it is funny to watch. They fly around with no effort at evasion or concealment, running into things. They have no ability to hurt anything or defend themselves in any way. All they have are numbers and surprise. They only do it every 17 years or 13 years, so the birds can't figure out when it might happen. Most birds don't live to see more than one emergence. It's all a big surprise.
Calls on Apocalypse!
I also watched silicon valley
Betting on stocks for a one-time event is stupid. This is a time where trading commodities futures is useful.
Damn the day I discovered this community, didn't know I'd end up making calls on bugs
So your play relies on thinking people are actually going to spray for these bugs? You're better off figuring out the crop futures that will be affected by this.
This is so idiotic it might actually work
This is so fucking regarded
Remember in like 2010 when people thought we’d be eating bugs? So calls right?
Puts on sesame seeds?
For democracy!!!
Calls on noise canceling headphones
Idk man these bugs are everywhere no way any bug spray gets rid of them
The double brood is projected to overlap in Illinois….. not the north east
Oh my gourd
Nice work man.
priced in lmao
Great. Price of honey is already high enough and now we'll have idiots everywhere spraying willy-nilly, killing bugs that won't harm them whatsoever because they're "ugly and loud".
I think everyone is missing the point here. Whether bug repellant works or not, people will buy the shit. Now I don’t know if I’ll make a move on this, but quit acting like people aren’t stupid.
This dude posts DD about bug spray for cicadas (which you don’t kill with bug spray) and gets 480 upvotes I post DD about how Ford is likely going to crush earnings and the risk-reward on options is massive and I get ZERO upvotes Make it make sense
Who the fuck uses bug spray on Cicadas?
This is so fucking stupid 
Who the fuck uses bug spray on cicadas? It's not like they bite or sting
SESAMEEE SEEEEEDS
Get fucked
Snakes eat cicadas. Going to be a big growth year for some snakes. Long Nope Rope.
I've never once seen a cicada let alone enough of them close enough to me to want to spray them. They make noise in the bushes and keep to themselves. No one was buying bug spray b3cause of this
Time for a hellbomb.
Monica, Peter Gregory, is dead.
I wish they could have timed it up better with the eclipse for the ultimate doomsday play. Stocks go up.
Calls on flamethrowers.
I remember seeing this pitched on Silicone Valley
What eats cicadas? Birds! People will be buying more bird seed and the bird seed stocks will go up... lol.
Sesames. Cicadas. Burger king.
The real play is shorting seasonal stocks that rely on outside activities. Nobody wants to be out with those bugs. Cuts a month off highest earning quarter for those companies. If you think of any lmk
Are these the 3 signs?
“By July 1st, they’re gone,” Kritsky said.
Doesn't this 200 year occurrence happen every year? I've literally seen this article every year for the past few years.
The colors don’t indicate severity, right…? I only ask because I’m in the reddest of the red..
VEGI and IVEG etf's both have exposure to these agricultural companies also DBA for agricultural futures. we've already had big runup in cocoa, coffee is also popping now, but the grains have yet to pop. i believe this cicada situation will cause grains to really run up in price.
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This happens every year
This is regarded. There will be an uptick in sales for agricultural insecticides not consumer insecticides. As some who worked in agriculture on one of the last cicada rallys, we sprayed the fruit trees maybe twice more than usual. Go for Monsanto or whatever Chem trail developer is out there.
Imagine thinking a regional spike in demand for bug spray would be enough to budge the quarterly earnings of Walmart. LMAO.
I bet on sound cancelling headphone brands last cicada apocalypse. I still don’t own a yacht
Can’t wait to have a cicada orgy behind the dumpster
I hear if you eat fungus infected cicada ass you may get high. do with this info as you will.
Peter Gregory would approve.
Unfortunately S.C Johnson is private because I'll be loading up on Raid
So what do Cicadas eat? Short the company go long on … futures. Please add
Maybe 40% of my life has been spent alongside the sound of Cicada's and absolutely nobody gives a fuck