{"id":130887,"date":"2021-06-13T08:12:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T12:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=130887"},"modified":"2021-06-13T08:12:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T12:12:55","slug":"from-car-crashes-to-plane-delays-cicadas-wreaking-havoc-by-the-billions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/from-car-crashes-to-plane-delays-cicadas-wreaking-havoc-by-the-billions\/","title":{"rendered":"From car crashes to plane delays, cicadas wreaking havoc by the billions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vincent Bingham wasn\u2019t bothered by cicadas \u2014 the large, noisy insects that have been reemerging by the billions in large swaths of the United States after 17 years underground.<\/p>

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That is, until one of the buggers flew into his driver\u2019s side window while he was on his way home from work earlier this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t have AC in the car so I had my windows down,\u201d Bingham, of New Richmond, Ohio, told ABC News. \u201cI was halfway home, I was just driving, and one of the cicadas just came flying and smacked me right in the face. \u2026 It was out of nowhere.\u201d<\/p>

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The 20-year-old swerved his car into a pole, smashing it enough to total it, he said. The Cincinnati Police Department tweeted about the Monday crash with the hashtag, \u201cnothinggoodhappenswithcicadas.\u201d<\/p>

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Bingham has since started a GoFundMe in hopes of raising money to help buy a new car, which was towed away with the culprit cicada crawling around near the back seat, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt didn\u2019t bother me that much before. I would pick them up and I would throw them in my sister\u2019s hair,\u201d he said. \u201cBut now, it messed up a lot of stuff.\u201d<\/p>

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\u201cIt sucks so much,\u201d added Bingham, who was able to walk away from the crash unscathed, save for some bruises.<\/p>\n

Periodical cicadas, who spend most of their lives underground before reemerging after precisely 13 or 17 years, have both fascinated and annoyed people with their mysterious life cycle and loud mating ritual.<\/p>

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This spring, cicada nymphs that are part of what\u2019s dubbed Brood X have crawled up from the ground, where they have been feeding off sap from tree roots for the past 17 years, to shed their skins, become adults, mate, lay eggs and die \u2014 all within the span of weeks.<\/p>

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This particular brood has been anticipated for its sheer size and scope \u2014 as many as 1.5 million per acre are expected to blanket trees and plants in one of the largest geographical areas in North America, according to the University of Connecticut\u2019s Cicada Mapping Project.<\/p>\n

They have not gone unnoticed. Beyond their chorusing, a high-pitched shrill that can reach as high as 100 decibels \u2014 about as loud as a lawnmower \u2014 the bugs have made headlines for invading a PGA Tour tournament in Ohio, startling a CNN reporter during a live shot in front of the U.S. Capitol, delaying journalists headed to Europe to cover President Joe Biden\u2019s first overseas trip this week after overwhelming part of the Delta charter plane\u2019s auxiliary power unit, and even landing on Biden before he boarded Air Force One for the trip on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

For people who live in areas where the bugs are plentiful, they may be seen as a nuisance that encourages them to stay inside. Those using equipment like circular saws and lawnmowers outside may inadvertently draw the attention of female cicadas, who are attracted to that sound, Mike Wedding, a Cincinnati-based entomologist with the pest control company ScherZinger, told ABC News.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of advice we give customers is to mow your lawn or do a lot of your yard work towards the evening hours\u201d when they\u2019re less active, Wedding said. \u201cGranted, they\u2019ll still come at you.\u201d<\/p>\n

For those with entomophobia \u2014 an extreme fear of insects \u2014 cicada season can be a trying time as well, noted Don Cipollini, a professor of biological sciences at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Though they might cause problems, the bugs do not bite or sting.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople have the sense that when you walk down the street and one flies into you, they\u2019re attacking you or something \u2014 they\u2019re not,\u201d Cipollini told ABC News. \u201cThey\u2019re just awkward, clumsy fliers and they\u2019ll just run into you by accident.\u201d<\/p>\n

Save for the rare car crash or plane grounding, cicadas typically do the most damage to trees. When it comes time for the females to lay their eggs, they cut slits into branches.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrees react in different ways to that,\u201d Cipollini said. \u201cSome trees basically have what you might call a hypersensitive reaction where they actually kill off the end of the branch.\u201d<\/p>\n

MORE: Cicadas delay White House press charter to Europe<\/p>\n

To protect against this pruning effect, especially in more vulnerable fruit trees, people can cover them with netting, he said.<\/p>\n

After the piercing shrill of the cicadas\u2019 mating call comes the stench after they die and decay, blanketing sidewalks, driveway and yards and clogging gutters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn large piles, they will start to smell when they decompose,\u201d Cipollini said. \u201cThat\u2019s something that\u2019s kind of annoying about them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cipollini recommended raking the dead bugs to spread them out, or composting them to speed up the decomposition process. \u201cEven after they die off, they\u2019re still with us for a while,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Beyond the nuisance factor, though, cicadas are a \u201cscientific bellwether\u201d of a healthy environment and indicate there are thriving mature trees, Cipollini said. As the bugs crawl out of the dirt, they also help aerate the soil, and once above ground are a plentiful food source for many animals, with studies showing cicadas have a reverberating effect on wildlife populations, he said.<\/p>\n

Cicadas can make for free bait for fishermen, feed for chickens and fertilizer for trees, Wedding added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re a wonder of nature, is how I like to describe it,\u201d Cipollini said. \u201cThere are camps, I\u2019ve really found \u2014 people that love them, people that hate them. I haven\u2019t had a lot of luck converting the haters, but at least they can learn more about them and hopefully at least appreciate them.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Bingham, the car crash caused by his run-in with a cicada provided another lesson \u2014 keep your windows closed for a few weeks while the bugs are above ground.<\/p>\n

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