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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5083/A.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Trillions of Cicadas Coming after 17 Years Underground' data-article-id='5651'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='10771'>Every 17 years, billions of insects, known as the cicadas of Brood X, rise from the earth. </span> <span data-start-time='10771' data-end-time='16313'>This year, perhaps, there will be trillions!</span> <span data-start-time='16313' data-end-time='22875'>Different broods, or groups, of cicadas come out on different years. </span> <span data-start-time='22875' data-end-time='28313'>The last time Brood X appeared was in 2004. </span> <span data-start-time='28313' data-end-time='40875'>The brood is one of the largest and will appear sometime in May in 15 states, from Georgia in the south to New York in the northeast.</span> <span data-start-time='40875' data-end-time='51896'>Many scientists and insect lovers say they are looking forward to the red-eyed insects after a 17-year wait. </span> <span data-start-time='51896' data-end-time='59542'>One of them is Mike Raupp, an insect expert at the University of Maryland.</span> <span data-start-time='59542' data-end-time='70458'>“What they’re waiting for is the soil temperatures to reach about 18 degrees Celsius, I believe that’s about 64 degrees Fahrenheit.</span> <span data-start-time='70458' data-end-time='74146'>Then they’re going to be up and out of the ground.”</span> <span data-start-time='74146' data-end-time='79000'>Raupp called the event a “party on the treetops.” </span> <span data-start-time='79000' data-end-time='91813'>When the insects come out of the ground, they will drop their skin, get their wings, and will try to go up on the treetops to escape from the predators.</span> <span data-start-time='91813' data-end-time='99729'>Raupp told VOA every creature will want to eat a cicada, and they will!</span> <span data-start-time='99729' data-end-time='109875'>“On that night of emergence when the cicadas come up from the earth, everything on the planet is going to want to eat a cicada.”</span> <span data-start-time='109875' data-end-time='118292'>Once on the treetops, the male cicadas will “sing” their mating songs to draw the females. </span> <span data-start-time='118292' data-end-time='125500'>And it is loud!</span> <span data-start-time='125500' data-end-time='131104'>If she likes the singing, they will have sex and reproduce. </span> <span data-start-time='131104' data-end-time='139458'>About six weeks later, the nymphs will fall off the treetops and go into the ground. </span> <span data-start-time='139458' data-end-time='152333'>Underfoot, the insects will quietly feed off tree roots and wait for another 17 years to start the party on the treetops all over again.</span> <span data-start-time='152333' data-end-time='173583'>“I think the periodical cicadas give tens of millions of people an opportunity to simply go out in their backyard and witness and enjoy a natural event that happens nowhere else on the planet, only a handful of times in a lifetime.”</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5083/A.jpeg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=17455 data-hint-location='99729' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5083/what_is_the_definition_of_the_word_emergence.wav'>What is the definition of the word emergence?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='The act of becoming known or coming into view'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5083/the_act_of_becoming_known_or_coming_into_view.wav'><span>The act of becoming known or coming into view</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5083/the_act_of_putting_or_keeping_out_of_sight.wav'><span>The act of putting or keeping out of sight</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5083/the_act_of_combining.wav'><span>The act of combining</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5083/the_act_of_moving_roughly_or_forcefully.wav'><span>The act of moving roughly or forcefully</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=17456 data-hint-location='28313' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5083/what_month_are_the_cicadas_expected_to_appear.wav'>What month are the cicadas expected to appear?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='May'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5083/may.wav'><span>May</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5083/june.wav'><span>June</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5083/july.wav'><span>July</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5083/august.wav'><span>August</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=17457 data-hint-location='79000' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5083/when_the_insects_come_out_of_the_ground_they_will_drop_their_skin_get_their_wings_and_will_try_to_go_up_on_the_treetops_to_escape_from_the__blank_.wav'>When the insects come out of the ground, they will drop their skin, get their wings, and will try to go up on the treetops to escape from the <span class='blank'>predators</span>.</div><div class='choices' 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