on our chives
on the cucumbers
on the green beans
and surprise! in the dill
This is quite the phenomenon. I've been hearing rumors that these are the 13-year kind, that they live underground all that time, and some people are making icecream out of them. (ps. I was also deeply disturbed by that surprise video of them emerging in that link. blech.) I can remember them from 1998, but still wanted to know more about this. Well, I started researching it and decided to stop my pursuit after reading this gem:
"After years of living in underground tunnels, thousands of periodical cicadas emerge from the earth, as if by a predetermined signal, shed their nymphal skins, and spread out through the nearby trees and bushes. Up to 40,000 can emerge from a under a single tree!"
No thank you. It sounds like the stuff of nightmares. When are they going away?
