17-year cicadas to swarm from Georgia to New York. (I think they look rather interesting)

[BlueJazz]

HAMDEN, Connecticut (Reuters) - Colossal numbers of cicadas, unhurriedly growing underground since 1996, are about to emerge along much of the U.S. East Coast to begin passionately singing and mating as their remarkable life cycle restarts.

This year heralds the springtime emergence of billions of so-called 17-year periodical cicadas, with their distinctive black bodies, buggy red eyes, and orange-veined wings, along a roughly 900-mile stretch from northern Georgia to upstate New York.

[MiniMe]

1. This is brood II I think

There is another brood that came out 7 or 8 years ago that is the main brood, and will come out in another 9 or 10 years.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. ugh

[PCIntern]

3. The last one came out the weekend of my kid's bar/bat mitzvah...

(Deliberately vague in re: gender)

It was OK, not too bad...quite a coinkydink!