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This is one of the most wild things I've ever heard. Cicadas are going to come out in the billions this summer in the Midwest. Turns out, there's a fungus that can turn them into zombies.

This is one of the most wild things I've ever heard. Cicadas are going to come out in the billions this summer in the Midwest. Turns out, there's a fungus that can turn them into zombies.

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The periodical cicadas that are about to infest two parts of the United States arent just plentiful, theyre downright weird.

Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries. Crawling out from underground every 13 or 17 years, with a collective song as loud as jet engines, the periodical cicadas are nature’s kings of the calendar. This spring, an unusual cicada double dose is about to invade a couple parts of the United States in what Univers...

Cicadas are clearly king when it comes to peeing, urinating two to three times stronger and faster than elephants and humans.

Cicadas are clearly king when it comes to peeing, urinating two to three times stronger and faster than elephants and humans.

They stay buried year after year, until they surface and take over a landscape, covering houses with shed exoskeletons and making the ground crunchy.

Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries. | Local News from KRQE News 13 in Albuquerque, New Mexico

This spring, an unusual cicada double dose is about to invade a couple parts of the United States in what University of Connecticut cicada expert John Cooley called “cicada-geddon.”