Cicadas, Brood XIII
Brood XIII is on the merge of emerging. Although I don’t expect to see them in my Chicago neighborhood, I’m ready with cicada postcards and a new “Love is in the Air” cicada t-shirt from Christopher Arndt. Then a co-worker alerted me to this video from the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County explaining the life cycle of the 17-year cicada. Enjoy.
That was amusing and informative. I didn’t realize that they were kicking about through the seventeen years underground. I assumed they were in some sort of dormant state.