An 'entire alien species' living underground for years will come out in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries.
Trillions of evolution's bizarro wonders – red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears – are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries.
The last time these two broods came out together in 1803, Thomas Jefferson, who wrote about cicadas in his"Periodic cicadas don't do subtle," Cooley said. At times mistaken for voracious and unrelated locusts, periodical cicadas are more annoying rather than causing biblical economic damage.The largest geographic brood in the nation - called Brood XIX and coming out every 13 years - is about to march through the US southeast, having already created countless boreholes in the red Georgia clay. It's a sure sign of the coming cicada occupation.A periodical cicada nymph wiggles its forelimbs.
These two broods may actually overlap — but probably not interbreed — in a small area near central Illinois, entomologists said.For more than a decade, these cicadas live in underground burrows until they are mature enough to rise to the surface.
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