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url: 'https://edequalsaweso.me/2013/05/cicadas/'
title: 'Cicadas On Parade!'
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  name: 'eD! Thomas'
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date: '2013-05-07T15:48:37-04:00'
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# Cicadas On Parade!

[The Huffington Post reports that we’re going to see some crazy on the East Coast this summer](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/06/the-cicadas-are-coming-locusts-17-years_n_3223584.html):

> If you live on the East Coast between Georgia and Connecticut, get ready for the air to be filled with billions of large, buzzing insects known as cicadas, a massive brood of which have been feeding on roots underground for the past 17 years — all in preparation for this one moment… The red-eyed insects, also known as *Magicicada*, tend to form denser clouds than other varieties of cicada. These swarms can be as dense as 1.5 million cicadas per acre.

Back when I was a kid, I used to take the shells that cicadas grew out of that they left behind on trees and glue giant googly-eyes on them. It was fun. (In other words, it’s time to invest in the companies that make giant googly-eyes, because I am going to be increasing their profit margins single-handedly this summer.)