Return of the cicada

Cicada mania: Aren Kemf, six holds a dead cicada Magicicada Brood II. After spending 17 years underground, the cicada emerge, mate, die and then the cycle repeats in another 17 years.

After 17 years underground, billions of Brood II cicadas rise again.

THERE are bugs in the trees. There are bugs on the shrubs, on screen doors, on barbecue grills, on front steps. There are shells of bugs on the ground, crunchy as tempura, and bug bodies clinging onto leaves, their dead orange eyes still beady.