To celebrate cicadageddon 2024, here's one of my favorite past episodes, this one on cicadapocalypse 2021: BROOD X has been waiting 17 years to emerge from the ground. What is Brood X? Should we panic? Discover this and more as we answer the age old question: How is it fair that swarms of baby turtles are considered cute, but swarms of bugs are considered “horrifying?”  Guest: Mara Wilson Footnotes: Cicada https://live.staticflickr.com/3067/2607912292_150e08400e_z.jpg   Cicada tymbal  https://www.cicadamania.com/images/tymbalanism.gif   Cicada sounds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNJ6DL_1R9I   Holes left by mass cicada emergence (warning for trypophobia) https://plant-pest-advisory.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/A-e1373044330806.jpg   Lots of cicadas! https://mk0charlottestopdskr.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cicadas-swarm-north-carolina.jpg   Mass sea turtle hatching!  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/olive-ridley-sea-turtle-swarm-filmed-costa-rica   Giant river turtle! https://zooinstitutes.com/img/animals/83/831567514683_33.jpg   Mass river turtle hatching! https://www.treehugger.com/rare-turtles-hatch-beach-brazil-5092340   Soft coral https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/84bPOAlpoBNPmyhMTsbhJ-iF7UDOo1lCST_18GrEChIqlOg6CL-nO1yx_6AVw8g2FWgRFAndhaD3HAUw_zMrVDbbNGYQS2Uqob1196fcVrNv7bveRZTylg03CdBwB3BCnpQ   Stony coral https://www.ecomagazine.com/images/Newsletter/0_2020/Week_1-6-20/underwater-photography-of-coral-reef-3100361.jpg See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.