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Article: Trillions of cicadas emerge; The insects will invade 14 states after 17-year slumber
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- May 12, 2004
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WASHINGTON (AP) - After a 17-year nap, trillions of red-eyed
insects are crawling their way above ground in 14 states and the
nation's capital.
Loudmouthed and ugly, the cicadas will fly clumsily into pets,
bushes and unwitting pedestrians as they engage in a frenetic mating
ritual that lasts well into June.
Then they'll disappear for another 17 years.
Keith Clay, a biologist and cicada researcher at Indiana
University in Bloomington, said the appearance of cicadas is "an
amazing biological phenomenon" that nonetheless produces a "yuck
factor" for some people.
"They're not scared but see them as disgusting," he said.
The 11/2 inch-long black bugs with iridescent wings buzz around,
but are ...
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