Guest Opinion: Zombies, cicadas and UFOs: There’s nothing we can’t handle after this year of COVID-19
It’s been a year unlike any other. Getting to today, with three vaccines in circulation and case counts falling, is an achievement. Take a moment to remember that.
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Tricia Bishop | The Baltimore Sun | 10:00 am, Mar. 12, 2021 ×
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They’re not locusts, but they might as well be. Billions of beady-eyed cicadas digging their way out of the soil in 15 Eastern states this spring after 17 years of creepily tunneling around underground definitely feels like a biblical-type plague on the horizon. A plague on top of the plague we’re already in, that is.
OP-ED: Zombies, cicadas and UFOs: There’s nothing we can’t handle after this year of COVID-19
Tricia Bishop
The Baltimore Sun (TNS)
They’re not locusts, but they might as well be. Billions of beady-eyed cicadas digging their way out of the soil in 15 Eastern states this spring after 17 years of creepily tunneling around underground definitely feels like a biblical-type plague on the horizon. A plague on top of the plague we’re already in, that is.
The insects aren’t even the only thing we have to worry about emerging from the ground after this long, bleak pandemic winter of our discontent. The walking dead are also making a comeback this year, or so we’re told. Nostradamus, that 16th century French astrologer who made predictions in poem form for fun, prophesied a zombie apocalypse in 2021, according to those who are in the know about this sort of thing (aka: internet posters).
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Scientists say warmer seas are creating more rain, waking dormant eggs, and cyclones that disperse the swarms are getting stronger and more frequent.
The Bug Picture is working with communities around the area of Laikipia, Isiolo and Samburu in central Kenya to harvest the insects and mill them, turning them into protein-rich animal feed and organic fertilizer for farms.
“We are trying to create hope in a hopeless situation, and help these communities alter their perspective to see these insects as a seasonal crop that can be harvested and sold for money,” said Laura Stanford, founder of The Bug Picture.
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