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Arboretum in short hills, new jersey are, getting their first glimpse at one of the marvels of nature. >> i see a lot of holes. oh, you found one! >> they're disgusting! >> reporter: like clockwork, the cicadas, who belong to what scientists call brood 2, are digging their way out. >> so this is a cicada hole and there is a cicada nynph. he has studied the life cycle of cicadas for 20 years. >> they synchronize their development, and they have long life cycles and when they come out they come out in massive numbers. >> reporter: what is triggering that? >> well, they are counting the seasons b...

To chicken, pork, fish and beef. the report says they're a sustainable source of protein. we should quickly add while bugs are not for everyone, insects are already in the diet of an estimated 2 billion people worldwide and components are used in things already like food coloring. and finally, it's certainly ruined now. a construction crew in belize needed crushed rock for a road project, so they clawed away at an ancient mayan pyramid, 2,300 years old. they dug away at it with backhoes. a local archaeologist called it ignorance, insensitivity, laziness, said it was like being punched in the...

It guess troyed nearly everything. mike fisher is the emergency manager. >> this was all black. >> moonscape, yeah. just awful. >> fisher is a former fire chief. he lead the firefighters battling the flames. the fire scorched 35,000 acres and destroyed 1600 homes. it clogged the colorado river with debris and drove out wildlife. >> what would it mean to you if this was lost? >> i don't want to think about that. it's not an option. >> because? >> because we are going to put it back. >> he's now leading an army of volunteers called the lost pine recovery team. >> some 1500 people from across the...

Halloween. but farmers love them because they feast on some of the insects that destroy crops. the problem now is that a mysterious fungus is killing the bats by the millions. seth doane has our story. >> this is one of the entrances. >> reporter: cory holliday of the nature conservancy took us to a tennessee cave that's the winter home to 160,000 endangered gray bats that could be extinct within a decade from white nose syndrome. >> this is a wildlife disease. it's unprecedented in our history. >> reporter: scientists are still mystified by this fungus, which shows up as a white powdery resid...

>> we were under water for quite a long time which is not much fun. >> and now it's time to get back into the saddle, sailors hurt when a wave damage their yacht, leaving the bay area. two people found dead outside of a starbucks. why police say there's no threat to the public and why it appears the killer wanted him to be found. ,,