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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 aren't just plentiful, they're 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 University of Connecticut cicada expert John Cooley called “cicada-geddon.”