Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - BBCNEWS - 20210511:18:22:00
Cicadas. an awful lot of them. these insects burrow into the ground for 17 years before they emerge to mate and lay eggs. a few weeks later, they die, leaving their exoskeletons. there are several different groups of cicadas across the us and they emerge in different years. this one, so—called brood ten, is the largest — around 1.5 million cicadas per acre, we think. that makes billions in the whole brood, and those billions will burrow their way out of the ground in these 15 states over the next few weeks. already, though, there have been sightings. cicadas aren't like locusts. they don't...