Here comes the Cicadas...
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Biblical?
No. Cicadas aren't that unusual and they do little harm, other than being outright annoying. They are NOT the same thing as the Bibilcal locusts that eat everything in their path.
The biblical locusts are literally grasshoppers. I've seen personally the destruction a swarm of them can bring.
Sure they do. This brood X is over a billion....and they do eat plants, trees ravenously. By our lake house one year you couldn't sleep all night due to the sounds of leaves and trees being eaten.
Actually, they suck the plant juices, they don't actually eat leaves or whatever. And, yes, they are highly annoying. They make a constant buzz and then they die and you have dead cicadas everywhere. But, they're not going to create a famine by eating crops and mowing everything down in their path.