Get ready for Brood X: the swarm is coming

[EvilEyeFleegle]

A bit biblical..a plague of locusts! Who remembers the last time this happened..got some stories?

Get ready for Brood X: The once-every-17-years cicada swarm is coming

Beginning in late April or early May, once the ground is warm enough, billions of Brood X cicadas will be seen across a dozen states⁠.

www.nbcnews.com

In a few weeks, a natural spectacle will take place across much of the United States — one that is not found anywhere else in the world. Billions of cicadas that have spent years patiently growing in complete darkness⁠⁠ will finally emerge, perfectly in sync, for a raucous party in the sun.
It's been 17 years, and the periodical insects, also known as Brood X, are back.
When the world last glimpsed the cicadas, Facebook was brand new, theaters were showing "Spider-Man 2," and the 2004 Summer Olympics were underway.

 

[Muhammed]

Brood X is in the yellow areas.

 

[Rambunctious]

Isn't this a decennial event?....

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Can they be trained to eat Guatemalans and Hondurans?

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Can they be trained to eat Guatemalans and Hondurans?

Always classy, eh?

 

[whitehall]

Everything seems to be a threat to the left. If it isn't global warming doomsday it's a plague by some sort of an insect. The trouble is that the little critters have been bulldozed or paved over in the last decade. I recall the "locusts" singing up a storm in the summer when I was a kid. Now I feel lucky if I hear them these days.

 

[Muhammed]

The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.2When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss.3And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth.4They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.5They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man.6During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.7The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.8Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.9They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.10They had tails and stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.11They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon. [1]

 

[Missourian]

The leftist say no more steak...eat brood X instead....

The Brood X cicadas are coming, and you should eat them. Here's how.

Billions of cicadas will emerge in the eastern US in mid-May. Learn how to cook them and they can be a delicious and highly nutritious meal.

www.popsci.com