.CHARACTER IS ACTUALLY Curing Americans to all sort of spectacles. On April 8th millions witnessed an overall photovoltaic eclipse. Many will be less magnetized when, in the coming days, mountains of cicadas show up in the country's Midwest and south-east. The throng will be extraordinarily large because pair of sorts of the bug-- Family XIII and also Family XIX-- are arising concurrently. The last time they showed up all at once was in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was head of state. Why do the cicadas possess such an unique life process?