Summer of the Cicada

摘要

Unless you've spent your summer living in a cicada burrow, you have probably heard about --and maybe even exp- erienced--the emergence of the "Brood X" (brood 10) cicadas in portions of the Eastern United States.Brood X is the most infamous of all the cicada broods. Emerging from the ground every 17 years, its members--several billion of them, divided into three different species--use their three week lifespan to do nothing more than mature, mate and die.