If you live on the East Coast between Georgia and Connecticut, get ready for the air to be filled with billions of large, buzzing insects known as cicadas, a massive brood of which have been feeding on roots underground for the past 17 years -- all in preparation for this one moment.
A small number of the "Brood II" cicadas, which are one of seven different species of the insect, have already begun emerging in some eastern states, according toMagicicada.org, a website run by John Cooley, a cicada expert and research scientist at the University of Connecticut.
By the end of May, the inch-and-a-half-long insects will come out in full force, swarming in massive, noisy clouds up and down the eastern seaboard, reports CBS New York.
these things are horrendously scary you have Sci-Fi channel 60's movie flash backs. they are everywhere and sound like hale hitting an tin roof of a empty warehouse.
the dead ones are all over the ground and smashed in the streets.
though not dangerus they have this ominous presence that scares the crap out of me. hgope i don't have a VA appt during their visit.
