The spring-emerging periodical cicada is red-eyed, and red-orangey highlighted, unlike the greenish-black annual cicadas that whine at us beginning in summer each year.
The spring-emerging periodical cicada is red-eyed, and red-orangey highlighted, unlike the greenish-black annual cicadas that whine at us beginning in summer each year.
A host of periodical cicadas is expected to emerge from the earth and serenade us robustly within the next few weeks.
Much ado already has been made of a confluence of events on the way: the simultaneous emergence of two major broods of periodical cicadas. What spins upright on the wheel of natural fortune is that for the first time in 221 years, Brood XIX of 13-year cicadas and Brood XIII of 17-year cicadas will send untold millions of bugs crawling up out of the soil and into the trees during the same spring.
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