.CHARACTER IS Curing Americans to all type of eyeglasses. On April 8th millions observed a complete solar eclipse. Numerous will certainly be less knocked out when, in the coming times, mountains of cicadas seem in the nation's Midwest as well as south-east. The throng is going to be actually unusually large since two types of the pest-- Brood XIII as well as Family XIX-- are surfacing concurrently. The final time they showed up simultaneously resided in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was actually head of state. Why do the cicadas possess such an unusual life cycle?