Trillions of slumbering, sex-crazed cicadas are expected to reemerge across the US starting this month in an insect event which has not happened in over 200 years. For the first time since 1803, the odd-numbered, 13 to 17-year cycles of two different large broods of cicada will finally intersect — unleashing a deafening, noisy mating […]
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US braces for cicadas by the trillion as two broods of periodic insects coincide
They look a little like cockroaches and have bulging orange eyes, and trillions of them are about to erupt from the earth in much of the midwestern and eastern United States. The emergence of two groups of cicadas will assemble a chorus of the insects not seen in several hundred years, experts say. The simultaneous […]
Trillions of Cicadas are Making Their Way Through the US
Trillions of cicadas are preparing to burst forth from the earth in a rare event that hasn’t been witnessed for over two centuries. This synchronized emergence of two cicada broods, dubbed Brood XIX and Brood XIII, promises to paint the landscape with a spectacle not seen since Thomas Jefferson occupied the presidency. For entomologists like […]