Billions of cicadas will emerge in the U.S. this year in a rare double-brood event...This year's dual emergence is a rare, synchronized event that last occurred in 1803.

NBC News ^ | Jan. 20, 2024, 8:00 AM CST | Denise Chow

[Magnum44]

[fwdude]

Get the grill ready....

[Red Badger]

Cicada burgers!........................

[nuconvert]

Didn’t this just happpen recently?

[Fury]

Noooooo!!!!!!

[Red Badger]

Different broods emerge in different years....................

[Diana in Wisconsin]

This pleases the ‘One Worlders’ to no end; plenty of bugs for we Proletariat to eat!

Ugh. I hate these bugs - ALMOST as much as I hate Grasshoppers. Almost.

[nuconvert]

OK. But the fact that there will more than usual isn’t so rare.

[Red Badger]

When I was a kid, they came out in north Mississippi. Every day for a month there was solid noise.................

[I want the USA back]

And thousands of enviro-wackos are getting their outdoor rotisseries ready and are going to have a feast! Roasted salted cicada.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Give me a double Cicada burger and fries.

[fwdude]

I love the sound of cicadas. It is the sound of summer for me. Takes me back to carefree summer vacation from school.

[srmanuel]

Wasn’t there something in the bible about plagues and pestilence, I seem to remember it toward the end of the bible in Revelations or something.

[ought-six]

Oh, joy. The noise will be...interesting.

[Dilbert San Diego]

When I was little, people referred to the cicadas as locusts.

[gundog]

Cicada adults don’t feed. They just make noise and breed.

[Rappini]

I’m going to research to see if they’re edible.

[Revel]

Dang Global warming!

/sarc

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

one that lives on a 13-year cycle and the other that lives on a 17-year cycle

Then why is the 17 year brood called Brood XIX?