.CHARACTER IS ACTUALLY TREATING Americans to all kinds of spectacles. On April 8th millions observed a total sun eclipse. Numerous will be actually much less charmed when, in the coming times, mountains of cicadas show up in the nation's Midwest and south-east. The flock is going to be extraordinarily sizable due to the fact that two forms of the pest-- Brood XIII and Brood XIX-- are emerging simultaneously. The final opportunity they seemed concurrently was in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was actually president. Why carry out the cicadas have such an unusual life cycle?