Cicadian Rhythms

Residents of some East Tennessee communities will bid goodbye this week to some rather loud--and some say obnoxious--visitors. Three species of the 17-year cicada have spent the last month or so eating leaves, flying around, mating, and making a general racket. This week, most of these cicadas will die off. And we won't see them again until the year 2025. WUOT's Matt Shafer Powell recently joined a cicada expert on a trip to one noisy Oak Ridge neighborhood..

Posted by mpowell7 at June 19, 2008 05:35 AM | Links to this post
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