Most of the trillions from May’s Brood X swarm will arise and fly and feed — and be fed on — in their monthlong above-ground life along the East Coast, from North Carolina to Indiana to New Jersey, possibly in parts of Georgia.
Spring’s 17-year-cicada swarms may raise some noise, but they’re not a plague, UA entomologist says
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