Not tired of cicada content yet? You can watch English broadcaster Sir David Attenborough narrate their life cycle and even "catfish" one unlucky cicada.
The video starts out like any other BBC nature special — quality video, a dramatic score and detailed narration.
But the five-minute clip also features a surprising twist.
Attenborough mimics the click of the female cicada — the answer to the male's deafening mating call.
"I can imitate the female's wing flip with a snap of my fingers," he says while standing next to a lush tree. "And that causes them to follow me anywhere because they're so determined to find a female."
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We get a close-up of Attenborough luring a male cicada toward him with a series of snaps. Eventually, the cicada flies to him, landing on his face and hand.
And of course, there were comments on the YouTube page.
"I'm awake at 1:30 am watching Sir David Attenborough catfish cicadas," one user wrote.
"That poor Cicada thought he was going to get laid...that's a terrible trick to play," another wrote.
The Brood X cicadas are emerging in Greater Cincinnati and across the U.S. now and will be around through late June and July before they start their 17-year cycle all over again.
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