microrobert
05-07-2013, 03:52 PM
East Coast readies for colossal numbers of cicadas
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Huge numbers of cicadas, the large black insects that produce a eerie loud noise when mating, are on the verge of emerging after a 17-year underground development cycle. They are expected to surface late this month.
Colossal numbers of cicadas, unhurriedly growing underground since 1996, are about to emerge along much of the US East Coast (http://mediaexpress.reuters.com/content/text) to begin passionately singing and mating as their remarkable life cycle restarts.
This year heralds the springtime emergence of billions of so-called 17-year periodical cicadas, with their distinctive black bodies, buggy red eyes, and orange-veined wings, along a roughly 900-mile stretch from northern Georgia (http://mediaexpress.reuters.com/content/text) to upstate New York (http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Upstate+New+York).
The eerie, cacophonous mating music they produce, along with the unusual synchronous mass emergence and lengthy development cycles, have amazed scientists and lay people alike for centuries.
East Coast readies for colossal numbers of cicadas - CSMonitor.com (http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0505/East-Coast-readies-for-colossal-numbers-of-cicadas)
http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/content/2013/0505_us_cicadas/15712671-1-eng-US/0505_US_Cicadas_full_380.jpg
Huge numbers of cicadas, the large black insects that produce a eerie loud noise when mating, are on the verge of emerging after a 17-year underground development cycle. They are expected to surface late this month.
Colossal numbers of cicadas, unhurriedly growing underground since 1996, are about to emerge along much of the US East Coast (http://mediaexpress.reuters.com/content/text) to begin passionately singing and mating as their remarkable life cycle restarts.
This year heralds the springtime emergence of billions of so-called 17-year periodical cicadas, with their distinctive black bodies, buggy red eyes, and orange-veined wings, along a roughly 900-mile stretch from northern Georgia (http://mediaexpress.reuters.com/content/text) to upstate New York (http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Upstate+New+York).
The eerie, cacophonous mating music they produce, along with the unusual synchronous mass emergence and lengthy development cycles, have amazed scientists and lay people alike for centuries.
East Coast readies for colossal numbers of cicadas - CSMonitor.com (http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0505/East-Coast-readies-for-colossal-numbers-of-cicadas)