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all ireland football semifinal. there you go. billions of cicadas have emerged in the east of america after spending 17 years underground. the insects spend almost their entire lifecycle below ground and, as nada tawfik reports from the state of newjersey, it s causing quite the buzz. it is a sight and sound that will make your skin crawl. billions of periodical cicadas emerging out of the earth and overtaking the eastern united states. the rare spectacle has americans in awe. it was deafening, really deafening. the grants have lived here for decades, and like clockwork, the brood ten cicadas have arrived at the same time every 17 years to mate. it can get so loud that some of theirfriends have mistaken
for a police siren. because of my hearing disadvantages, i don t put my hearing aids in when i come out into the garden, otherwise i get the whole sound magnified. the mass emergence and its timing is all part of a clever survival strategy to evade predators. then the metamorphosis from nymph to adult happens relatively quickly. so here we have a fully grown female that s now ready to mate and lay her eggs. she ll only live four to six weeks, though, after being underground for 17 years. this is when they are most vulnerable, right here, because their body is so soft. it s a magical time for entomologist drjessica ware, whose16 year old daughter wasn t even alive the last time she saw these insects. the world was a very different place back then. george bush was president, and facebook was just launched. you know, a lot of people, for centuries, have been calling these things locusts. but they re the opposite of locusts. they re not actually a plague, they re not destroying crops,
the male insects droning song for a police siren. because of my hearing disadvantages, i don t put my hearing aids in when i come out into the garden, otherwise i get the whole sound magnified. the mass emergence and its timing is all part of a clever survival strategy to evade predators. then the metamorphosis from nymph to adult happens relatively quickly. so here we have a fully grown female that s now ready to mate and lay her eggs. she ll only live four to six weeks, though, after being underground for 17 years. this is when they are most vulnerable, right here, because their body is so soft. it s a magical time for entomologist drjessica ware, whose16 year old daughter wasn t even alive the last time she saw these insects. the world was a very different place back then. george bush was president, and facebook was just launched. you know, a lot of people, for centuries, have been calling these things locusts. but they re the opposite of locusts.