.CHARACTER IS TREATING Americans to all kinds of spectacles. On April 8th millions experienced an overall solar energy eclipse. Numerous will definitely be actually much less charmed when, in the coming days, trillions of cicadas appear in the country's Midwest as well as south-east. The flock is going to be abnormally big due to the fact that two kinds of the pest-- Family XIII and Brood XIX-- are developing at the same time. The last time they showed up all at once resided in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was head of state. Why do the cicadas have such an unusual life process?