The Insect Apocalypse

In these days, when all news cycles are 85% dominated by the Trump Administration, it's nice to remember there's other terrible news out there.

The 13-year cicada cycle and the 17-year cicada cycle will overlap this year, for the first time in our lifetimes, in 16 states.

Expect many stories about the "insect apocalypse." Crops and trees will be denuded. The noise will be "like a jet engine."

I'll believe it when it happens. I still remember the cicada apocalypse that was supposed to hit New York in - what was it - 2013? Before then, the area around Prospect Park in Brooklyn (where I live) used to get a fairly steady buzz of cicadas every summer. The year of the "apocalypse", there were hardly any cicadas. And the same every year since.