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Dear Reader,
You’ve no sooner put away your eclipse glasses than it’s time to pull out your ear plugs. “This spring, two different broods of cicadas — one that lives on a 13-year cycle and the other that lives on a 17-year cycle — will emerge at the same time from underground in a rare, synchronized event that last occurred in 1803,” NBC News tells us.
Literally billions of the (male) winged whiners will commence their month-long mating call sometime in late April, mostly in the Midwest.
“The insects are known to emit a high-pitched buzz, or mating song, that can reach up to 100 decibels — roughly equivalent to a motorcycle or jackhammer,” the report says.
The good news for those who value quiet is that, like the eclipse, this is a once-in-a-lifetime occasion.
Buzzily,
Dot
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