内容摘要：Damage from heavy spring rains is visible in the field of white corn on the Oneida Nation Reservation, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024, in Oneida, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)

Damage from heavy spring rains is visible in the field of white corn on the Oneida Nation Reservation, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024, in Oneida, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)

in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries.Crawling out from underground every 13 or 17 years, with a collective song as loud as jet engines, the periodical cicadas are nature’s kings of the calendar.

These black bugs with bulging eyes differ from their greener-tinged cousins that come out annually. They stay buried year after year, until they surface and take over a landscape, covering houses with shed exoskeletons and making the ground crunchy.This spring, an unusual cicada double dose is about to invade a couple parts of the United States in what University of Connecticutexpert John Cooley called “cicada-geddon.” The last time these two broods came out together in 1803 Thomas Jefferson, who wrote about cicadas in

but mistakenly called them locusts, was president.“Periodic cicadas don’t do subtle,” Cooley said.

If you were fascinated by the

the cicadas are weirder and bigger, said Georgia Tech biophysicist Saad Bhamla.Five years later, the Justice Department under President Donald Trump has

with Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky, to reform their police departments.“It’s a symbolic nod from the state to police departments around the nation that they can continue discriminating and abusing Black people without worry,” the Movement for Black Lives said in remarks exclusive to The Associated Press. “So while they attempt to rollback our wins and erase our history, we will continue to care for one another ... so we can keep working toward our vision of freedom and liberation that this administration fears.”

Motorists are ordered to the ground from their vehicle by police on South Washington Street in Minneapolis on Sunday, May 31, 2020, during a protest. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)Motorists are ordered to the ground from their vehicle by police on South Washington Street in Minneapolis on Sunday, May 31, 2020, during a protest. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)