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Cicada chasers: Meet the citizen scientists mapping the bugs of Brood X CNET 3 hrs ago © Alex Wong/Getty Images The red-eyed bugs of Brood X, which will soon emerge by the millions. The cicada chasers are ready.   For Dan Mozgai, a marketing professional from New Jersey, the perfect vacation involves insects. Lots and lots of insects. They can t be just any random bugs, though. They have to be periodical cicadas.  The critters spend almost their whole lives underground, living on sap from tree roots. Then, in the spring of their 13th or 17th year, depending on the brood, they tunnel out, synchronously and in huge numbers, for a short adult mating frenzy set to the sonorous sound track of the males come-hither calls.

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