“What’s that weird abuzzing noise?” asked our family’s Spanish exchange student in the middle of a wiffle ball game. “What noise?” I responded, not hearing any noises I considered strange. Then it buzzed again.
“Oh, that’s just a cicada,” I replied.
While cicadas provide familiar summer background noise in Southwest Ohio, the periodical cicadas go beyond the term “just.” It’s amazing. Flash forward a couple of decades and I was reminded of the fact that this doesn’t happen everywhere. A French colleague was visiting our headquarters in Cincinnati during brood XVI’s last arrival and was amazed. There is a lot to take in.
Read the complete article, Bugging Out, here:
And stay tuned for some possible data crunching on the impacts cicada's have on the area: https://www.daytondailynews.com/what-to-know/bugging-out-cicada-brood-xiv-is-back-in-sw-ohio-very-soon/JVMEHPM745DF3G7Y25EKD4HEPM/
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