Rivka Galchen on two broods of cicadas that will arrive in multiple states in the Midwest and the Southeast this year.
For some people, the whole romantic cycle is, understandably, a nightmare: billions of toe-sized insects, as many as a million per acre, on lawns and on wooden fences and on your pants. They evince no fear; their pace is that of zombies and, yet, the collective song of these slow-moving hordes is as loud as roadwork, or advancing artillery. Some of them even have red eyes. The time of the periodical cicadas is nigh. Again.
Toward the end of June, after mating, females will make slits in small tree branches and lay their eggs; an individual female may lay as many as six hundred eggs, leaving ten or so in each slit. The branches will droop from the weight. The singing will begin to subside. A few female cicadas will still be seen in the songless coda, as they make their final nests. “And then they’re just going to die,” Ware added, of the male and female cicadas alike.
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