Cicadas: ‘This Is a Big, Big Event’
Billions of cicadas are expected to serenade the populations of 14 US states this year.
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For the first time since 1803, two different types of cicadas — one on a 13-year and the other on a 17-year cycle — are expected to co-emerge in more than a dozen U.S. states.