Cicadas reappear after 17 years

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Cicadas reappear after 17 years
cicadageddon User ID: 30317398 Brazil 06/10/2013 09:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Cicadas reappear after 17 years Periodical cicadas ready to mate after resurfacing Posted: Jun 4, 2013 10:51 PM ET A large brood of periodical cicadas — insects that spend 17 years underground before surfacing to mate — is emerging right on schedule in parts of the U.S. Northeast. And the loud and lusty bugs will be crossing the border into Canada. Andrew Hebda, a curator of zoology for the Nova Scotia government, says the insects will most likely be found in the Halifax region, the Annapolis Valley, Yarmouth and possibly Cape Breton. The CBC's Paul Hunter takes a tour with a cicada watcher who is fascinated by the buzzing bugs, and talks to another man who thinks they are a tasty treat. When it comes to the bugs mating, "truly, you don’t really want to watch," Hunter reports. “It’s kind of yucky." [link to www.cbc.ca]

Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 30317398 Brazil 06/10/2013 09:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Cicadas reappear after 17 years everyone loves cicadas
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 30317398 Brazil 06/10/2013 09:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Cicadas reappear after 17 years Hail, 17-year Cicadas of 2013! The 17-year cicada hatch of 2013 is in full bloom. They showed up yesterday in Carbon County, Pennsylvania where Tom Wildoner captured these photos. Thank you, Tom Wildoner, for sharing these photos yesterday (June 9, 2013) at EarthSky Photo on Google+. Tom said that, yesterday, a large 17-year Cicada hatch showed up in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. The debut of a new generation of Brood II cicadas is in full bloom now in the U.S. Northeast. These 17-year cicadas live out most of their long lives as nymphs underground, but, each 17 years, they crawl out of the ground for a three-to-four-week festival of singing and mating. Afterwards, they die. Early estimates suggested there might be as many as “30 billion” or “1 trillion” cicadas hatch in the U.S. Northeast this year. Estimates for the 2013 cicada population aren’t in yet, but, so far, reports suggest that the 2013 hatch of Brood II 17-year cicadas has been very localized, with some places getting many and other places very few. [link to earthsky.org]
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