East about to be overrun by billions of cicadas

Monday, May 6, 2013 - 13:30 in Earth & Climate

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. They will arrive in such numbers that people from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered roughly 600-to-1. Maybe more....

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