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After 17 years, the cicadas have re-emerged from the ground all across the eastern United States. Swarms of the flying insects, about the size of your thumb, have infested woods and fields, back yards and school playgrounds. With their beady red eyes and stiff translucent wings, they look scary. But they don't bite or sting… their only goal in this last short phase of their lives, is to mate. VOA's Andrew Baroch visited an elementary school in nearby Alexandria, Virginia, where the instantly recognizable cicada mating call never lets up.

CICADA SOUND

TEXT: When this ten-year old girl ventures outside Patrick Henry Elementary School, she walks fast.

GIRL

"Most of the time I 'speedwalk,' but when I have to walk over them, I'm really scared."

TEXT: It's hard NOT to walk over them. Cicadas and their shells litter the school parking lot and sidewalks, the soccer field and playground. Each child seems to have his or her own story of an unpleasant encounter with a cicada.

=KIDS MONTAGE

"They stick on your clothes. And when you try to wipe them off, they curl up and won't come off your clothes. You have to pick it up."

"Today, I was being chased by one."

[BAROCH:] "Did you scream?"

"Yeah."

""Once there was a cicada on my leg, crawling up my leg."

"When we were playing kickball, some were flying around on the field, and some were on the trees and everything."

"Yeah, I've been chased by a lot of cicadas. And the cicadas make a very different sound that annoys people that makes their head hurt and gives them a headache."

"I saw a boy holding a cicada by its wings. He tried to chase me with it, and I was scared."

TEXT: Teachers and school staff encourage the kids to try and deal see these creatures from a scientific perspective -- observe and describe them. And some of the kids enjoy being cicada scientists.

KIDS MONTAGE

"They're black and yellow and have red eyes."

"It looked like a dragonfly, looks exactly like a dragonfly."

"I've caught two. I've caught one with the shell and one with the actual wings."

[BAROCH:] "Do you know where they came from?"

"Underground. They dig their way up every 17 years."

[BAROCH]: "Oh, you really know a lot about them, huh?"

"Yeah, I did a project on them."

TEXT: These kids weren't born the last time the cicadas invaded the East Coast in 1987… but these adults remember it well…

ADULTS MONTAGE

"I was a volunteer on a school bus. We'd be scared to open up the doors."[laughter]

[BAROCH:]"Does it bring back good memories, the sound of the cicadas?

"Oh yeah, I won't forget the sound of them. [He imitates sound: ooooooeeeee!]"

TEXT: These kids will be young adults by the time the next generation of these cicadas emerges from the ground, in 2021… but they'll never forget the crunching underfoot, the science projects… and the noise of 2004:

KIDS MONTAGE IMITATING CICADAS (three different buzz and whirr sounds)

See also Cicada Invasion


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