Every 17 years one of the grandest spectacles in nature takes place. Billions of insects in a seemingly coordinated fashion will emerge from the ground and cover the skies and the trees.

This is all part of their extremely unusual life cycle which consists of an extremely long juvenile period and very short adulthood.

Learn more about periodic cicadas and their unusual behavior and life cycle on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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