If You Live In America,

in any of these 15 states,

Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, as well as Washington D.C. image via USA Today, you will be happy too hear, or not, that the Brood X, also known as the Great Eastern Brood, which is a species of periodical cicada that will re-emerge after 17 years of living underground, these large winged creatures are mostly harmless, although their buzz isn’t that pleasant to the ears, as it happens we have featured these very bugs on the blog a couple of times before, once on the 16th April 2016, and one earlier on the 15th April 2013, 

when Diana tried some, also in the post is a recipe for cooking them, yummy! back to the ones about to hatch out, “The end of May through June, it can get pretty loud – if you are in an area where they are numerous, there can be hundreds of thousands, or millions, of them,” said Howard Russell, an entomologist (insect scientist) at Michigan State University, unlike greenish, annual cicadas, periodical cicadas are known for their black bodies and bold, red eyes. Their mass, in-unison emergence every 17 years is one of nature’s great mysteries, “They are always there, that’s what people don’t realize,” said John Cooley, an entomologist at the University of Connecticut who studies periodical cicadas, judging by the noise they make, and the numbers of them, I can see a run on ear plugs come the spring!