Here come the bugs.

Lots of cicadas will come out of the ground this spring. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)
This cicada was from the Great Southern Brood in 2011. (Philip N. Cohen/CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED)
Cicada nymphs shed their skin after coming out of the ground. This cicada rests on a twig next to its old skin. (AP/Al Goldis)
A cicada comes out of the ground. It hasn’t shed its skin yet. (AP/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Cicadas live only four to six weeks. (AP/Robert Graves)

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They crawl out of the soil. It is a bug party! These are two groups of cicadas (sih-KAY-duhs). They do not often come out at the same time.

No worries. They do not sting or bite.

Pray: Thank God for creeping critters. These bugs help soil. They also are food for birds.

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A cicada mob is hitting the eastern United States. It will hang out from late April through June. The Great Southern Brood of cicadas comes out of the ground every 13 years. The Northern Illinois Brood comes out every 17 years. The buggy hordes both rise this year. Their paths cross every 221 years. The last time they joined ranks was in 1803. Thomas Jefferson was president. People in Chicago had to shovel cicadas off roads the last time the Northern Illinois Brood came out!

God made “every living creature that moves.” (Genesis 1:21)

For more about cicadas, see Searching for Cicadas by Lesley Gibbes in our Recommended Reading.