Woods

"They sound like a chainsaw starting up," is how my sister Joanne described the noise that the Brood X cicadas make in the woods near her family's home. The 17-year cicadas have emerged from their underground dwellings, and are crawling up trees, shedding their nymphal skins, and filling the woods with the sound of their singing. "Our dogs love to eat them," my friend Linda said on Sunday evening. Linda and her husband also live in a wooded area, and she showed us pictures of her garden … [Read more...] about 17-Year Cicadas—Visitors from the Underground