Cicada emergence

Entomologists (bug people) put a fine point on bug relations.  Cicadas are the focus this year.  Much has been written about the seventeen year emergence due, oh, long about now.  I wondered where they were.  It  seems the great Illinois emergence won*t happen until 2024.  The cicadas emerging this year are the East Coast variety.  Who knew?  Not me.  For more info (by IL entomologists), go here:  http://web.extension.illinois.edu/cicadas/13or17year.html

Entomologists question

Which brood of cicadas

Is related to which.

It seems cicadas emerge

In different parts of the country

At different times.

They wait underground

To emerge

Periodically.

I have been waiting

Here in Illinois

For the seventeen year emergence

Which now it seems

Will occur

In 2024.

Meanwhile

On the East Coast

Cicadas climb out of the ground

In clusters,

Acres of cicadas.

Here

We wait

Until the giant emergence

Slated for 2024.

Entomologists question

Who is related to who,

What is related to what,

Which is related to which.

We have always questioned

Such things.

Cicadas

Or not.