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President Biden: "Watch out for the cicadas. I just got one – it got me." pic.twitter.com/jfrik4bgpB — The Hill (@thehill) June 9, 2021 If you live in Washington, D.C. the cicadas are hard to ignore. But this week their mating-frenzied existence reached new levels of intrusion in day-to-day DC. On Tuesday evening, as AP’s Jonathan […]
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By now, if you live in the East or Midwest, you have seen the Brood X Cicadas everywhere — doing what they do, emerging from the ground, shedding their skin, mating, and then dying. But a few of them have a fungus called Massospora, which produces an amphetamine and that causes them to lose control […]
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by Amy Lupica, ODP Staff Writer Could the latest food trend be 17 years in the making? That’s right; we’re talking about the Brood X cicadas. Trillions of these odd-looking insects have been emerging from the ground across the eastern U.S. over the past few weeks, and experts say their return presents a perfect opportunity to indulge in some […]
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There are too many pull quotes to choose from: • Billions of #broodx #cicadasarecoming• They'll be LOUD.• If you're still like a tree they'll climb you and try to leave eggs on you. Rude.• They'll leave dead skin and THEN dead bodies everywhere. https://t.co/J7SI51atTM — danie_d (@danie_d) March 10, 2021 The Washington, D.C. region will […]
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