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Beady-eyed and wriggling, hundreds of billions of cicadas emerged last month from their underground hibernation across the eastern United States. This year’s crop of bugs are one of 15 broods, each of which emerges every 17 years to screech, mate, and eventually die off after around three weeks. The cicadas …

The phenomenon is not seriously troubled environmentalists. Entomologists attribute the increase in the number of insects with favorable weather conditions for their reproduction and growth. Since the end of July at the resort there is no rain and daytime temperatures above 30 degrees. “A lot of cicadas – a few …