After 17 years underground, trillions of cicadas are about to emerge in the US (theguardian.com)

Here's the mentioned Cicada recipes:

http://www.tullabs.com/cicadaworld/cicadarecipes.pdf

Time to short sesame seeds...

It's possible, but some past cycles didn't emerge because of habitat destruction. We'll see.

I wish cicadas in NZ came only every 17 years.

Where I am, in summer, their chorus is deafening.

You know it’s summer when all you can hear outside is those blasted insects chirping.

They only come out in prime number year (like 17) gaps.