{"id":10722,"date":"2020-05-25T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10722"},"modified":"2020-06-20T15:21:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T22:21:45","slug":"the-other-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/25\/the-other-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Plague"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from NPR<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They’re Back: Millions Of Cicadas Expected To Emerge This Year <\/h1>\n\n\n\n

by Jason Slotkin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In parts of Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina, cicadas will climb out of the ground for their once-in-17-year mating cycle. Scientists have dubbed this grouping brood IX. Stephen Jaffe\/AFP via Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As summer nears, 2020 has another trick up its sleeve. This time, it’s cicadas. A lot of cicadas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In parts of southwestern Virginia, North Carolina and West Virginia, it’s nearly time for a brood of the insects to emerge for their once-in-17-year mating season. As many as 1.5 million cicadas could emerge per acre. And did we mention the bugs are known for their distinct \u2014 and overwhelming \u2014 chirping?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Communities and farms with large numbers of cicadas emerging at once may have a substantial noise issue,” predicts Eric Day of Virginia Tech’s\u00a0department of entomology<\/a>. He tells Virginia Tech Daily, “Hopefully, any annoyance at the disturbance is tempered by just how infrequent \u2014 and amazing \u2014 this event is.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from NPR They’re Back: Millions Of Cicadas Expected To Emerge This Year  by Jason Slotkin As summer nears, 2020 has another trick up its sleeve. This time, it’s cicadas. A lot of cicadas.  In parts of southwestern Virginia, North Carolina and West Virginia, it’s nearly time for a brood of the insects to emerge for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}