The next wave of Sikadas is 17 years old, on the verge of party, screaming and death

The private embrace of Cicadas-an ancient dynasty of periodic insects-is scheduled to explode in May and June, and covers more United States than any 17-year-old bosom.

This bug – known as the fourteenth embrace – was spending its underground time since the last Bush administration, which reduced their time and calculated the years it is going through. Now they returned with two goals: get loud and get a position.

This is not just a swarm. It is considered the fourteenth embrace The original broodThrough it, all other broods are divided by Sikada, according to Yaleenvironment360. This is the huge friendliness, crunchy, insects.

For a few weeks to come, the sky will be filled with exciting mating calls, as insects rise simultaneously. Classy appearance is not only for taste. It is a numbers game: by appearing in billions, Cicadas overcame predators – birds, sneaks and snakes, called what you want – which give up a lot of the amount that sends the arrival of Sikadas waves across the food chain.

When Cicadas appears, groups of cuckoo Enlargement. But not all effects are good: because the birds are busy with eating the sicada, the Yarqi population can go undefinedAllowing Those The errors to damage oak trees more.

Most insects will be eaten, but enough insects will remain to keep the brood. Once the survivors lay their eggs – the purpose of fulfilling it – they die. The offspring of the small underground embrace disappears for another 17 years, from which it will rise again in 2041.

Sikadas is expected to appear in the far west such as Kansas, north in the far north of Wisconsin and Michigan, in the Mississippi Delta to New Orleans, and along most of the eastern coast of Georgia and South Carolina to Connecticut. You can review a detailed map of the costume, including where it appeared historically and is expected to appear again, at this University of Connecticut location.

As with everything else these days, climate change can be tampered with the cicada watch. Japanese study Find The warming temperatures drive some cycada to appear earlier in the year. Over time, the most heated conditions may even reduce the 17 -year -old nap.

But these are long -term expectations, the fourteenth embrace timing. In the coming weeks, if you hear the fats and are not near the construction site, there is no need for panic: it is just billions of errors on a generation once in the generation.