cicadas

For the past week I've been looking for cicadas emerging from their skin and couldn't find any at ground level. Today I went to my brother's house and found that a tree in his backyard that contained hundreds of cicadas, some still shedding their skin. They're white when they first come out...

http://www.cicadaville.com/ :D

Story And the Kerry campaign response? Burn!

Isn't nature wonderfully weird? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3707599.stm I wonder what the evolutionary reasons are for this lifecycle?