March 28, 2004
A Plague?
Those of us who were in the area seventeen years ago are about to experience a rather uncomfortable sense of deja vu. There is a teeming mass just beneath our feet, "billions upon billions" of creatures are biding their time, waiting to make an appearance and walk among us surface dwellers. That's right folks, Brood X is about to return-- the the seventeen-year cicada is back.
They're getting ready as you read this, preparing to crawl up from the ground and mate. There will be billions and billions around here, for sure," says Smithsonian entomologist, Gary F. Hevel. I hope none of our readers have an issue with insects.
Posted by cs at March 28, 2004 11:41 AM
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I remember: they make such a nice cruncy sound when you step on them. Dogs love to eat them, too.
Posted by: Michael at March 28, 2004 11:48 AM
Are they like locusts? We had a plague of big-ass grasshoppers when I was in middle school. One of my Sunday School teachers brought some dead ones in a sandwich baggie as illustration for the bit of Job we were studying that week.
Do they damage car paint?
Ewwwww.
Posted by: Amanda at March 29, 2004 3:37 PM