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Cicadas will hear the call of spring. And then you’ll hear their mating calls, too. For well over a decade, periodical cicadas do very little. They hang out in the ground, sucking sap out of tree roots. Then, following this absurdly long stint in the soil, they emerge, sprout wings, make a ton of noise, have sex, and die within a few weeks. Their orphan progeny return to the ground and live the next 17 or 13 years in darkness.
Several species of periodical cic
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