It's that time: Millions of
cicadas emerging from 17-year
cycle to scream, mate, die
Posted By: Ida Lou Pino, 5/24/2020 1:06:25 PM
Residents of the American south are bracing for the emergence of a new brood of 17-year cicadas, the exceedingly noisy insects that fill the summer air with their loud mating calls nearly every two decades. Southerners may soon be treated to "a cacophonous whining like a field of out-of-tune car radios," Virginia Tech announced this week. The bugs live in underground burrows, slowly maturing over their 17-year life cycle, before emerging for about a month to mate, after which they quickly die. The relatively brief adult life of the cicadas is nevertheless notable from the outsized noise levels they generate over the course of about four weeks.
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In the late 1960s on the Johnny Carson show - - Criswell predicted "ticks in Tennessee." So - - it remains to be seen - - which will come first - - ticks in Tennessee - - or cicadas in West Virginia.