The Tri-State is at the height of the once-every-17-years Brood X cicada invasion, but this time around, there's a relatively new phenomenon taking hold of the bugs: a fungus that alters their behavior and eventually causes their bodies to fall apart.
NBC meteorologist Lauryn Ricketts shared on Monday an image of a big blotch of green picked up by the radar beam which they suspected were swarms of Brood X cicadas. The exceptionally loud black-winged insects that had emerged from their 17-year slumber must have come in hundreds of thousands, if not millions of cicadas, to be able to show up in weather radar.
For those wondering why eat cicadas, or any bugs at all, one group of students is hoping to change mindsets on how Americans see cuisine as entomologists.