The Cicadas Are Coming: Here's Photographic Proof
The cicadas haven't even reached their mating season climax and already the visual evidence of their East Coast presence is alarming.
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As much masochistic fun as it may be to follow the cicada sex invasion via Twitter's ever popular Vine app, the brave backyard directors chronicling the East Coast's ongoing insect phenomenon don't seem to be enjoying the process too much — many of them are just resorting to violence against the little guys, who die almost instantly upon their return to earth anyway.
The cicadas haven't even reached their mating season climax and already the visual evidence of their East Coast presence is alarming.
Harmless scientific marvel though it may be, the summer of bug love has arrived — perhaps entering your backyard or urban escape as soon as this weekend — and it's pretty gross. For those of you with a fear of flying insects, it's downright terrifying. Here's a handy guide for East Coast entomophobes, with the help of the Internet's ultimate cicada expert.
The bugs are coming for the Super Bowl of cicada mating season, and they are due to arrive, up and out of your trees and with the sexual sounds of a power saw, sometime very soon. Here's an illustrated entomological guide.
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