Billions of bugs to blanket America

By Agence France-Presse

Apr 28, 2024 12:08 am

WASHINGTON: They're loud. They're sexually aroused. And for one special, cacophonous month up to a trillion of them will engulf suburbs and woodlands across America.

Two cicada 'broods' are set for a rare double emergence that last occurred in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was president and the United States purchased Louisiana from France.

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