These cicadas are everywhere, so everyone knows them. All the people on the street know your bug, and they often know the different species. The people I meet know a lot about the insects, and...

I think these are pretty charming and mellow insects,

Even as dead bugs they are still influencing these forest ecosystems, … Science.

They are not very agile fliers, and they don’t seem to be very skilled at avoiding predators,

When you get thousands, or millions or billions of them together in one spot, it is a fantastic, deafening chorus.

What we found was that these plants are actually taking up nitrogen that comes from cicadas.