How the cicada invasion is bringing people together
Complete strangers are bonding over the rare, ongoing emergence of two groups of periodical cicadas.
Complete strangers are bonding over the rare, ongoing emergence of two groups of periodical cicadas.
For the first time since 1803, two broods of cicadas are emerging simultaneously in several parts of the U.S. in an extraordinary show of nature. But biologists say there may be a deeper meaning to the insect invasion. Ben Tracy explains.
Scientists who study such things have found that cicadas urinate in a jet stream because they consume an incredible volume of fluid during their brief time above ground.
You deserve a treat. And this spring, Mother Nature is providing a seemingly endless supply – trillions of cicadas.
For the first time since 1803, two groups of periodical cicadas are emerging from the ground at the same time in parts of the Midwest and South. However, a small section of Central Illinois marks the only place where both the 13-year and 17-year cicadas are emerging in the same place. Dave Malkoff reports on the extraordinary event.
Trillions of cicadas are emerging across 12 states, from the Midwest to the East Coast, after spending more than a decade underground. In Central Illinois, there is a rare opportunity to see two types of cicadas together for the first time in more than 200 years.
The bugs emit a loud, droning buzzing sound when they emerge — signaling they are ready to mate.
It might not be summer yet, but the sounds of the season have already arrived. CBS News national correspondent Dave Malkoff traveled to the Georgia-South Carolina border, where one of two broods of periodical cicadas expected to arise this year in a historic emergence convergence is already molting and traveling to the treetops to mate.
Trillions of cicadas are emerging in some parts of the country after laying dormant for more than a decade. In Illinois, two broods will co-emerge for the first time in over 200 years. The collective noise from the insects can be as loud as a jet engine. Jonathan L. Larson, extension entomologist for the University of Kentucky, joined CBS News to discuss the emergence.
Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff's office asking why they can hear a "noise in the air that sounds like a siren, or a whine, or a roar." CBS News' John Dickerson has details.
"Although to some, the noise is annoying, they pose no danger to humans or pets," the sheriff wrote. "Unfortunately, it is the sounds of nature."
Trillions of periodical cicadas are emerging from the ground this spring, bringing with them their loud buzzing and molted exoskeletons. Here's where you will be able to see them.
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