Cicadas: The dormant army beneath your feet Rose Eveleth

View full lesson: Every 13 or 17 years, billions of cicadas emerge from the ground to molt, mate and die. Adult cicadas only live a few weeks above ground, but you d be hard pressed to ignore them they are extremely loud Rose Eveleth explains everything you need to know about these noisy insects, admitting that there s still some things we just don t understand. Lesson by Rose Eveleth, animation by Eli Enigenburg.