.CHARACTER IS Curing Americans to all kinds of eyeglasses. On April 8th thousands witnessed an overall photovoltaic eclipse. Many will be much less charmed when, in the coming times, mountains of cicadas show up in the nation's Midwest as well as south-east. The flock is going to be actually unusually sizable due to the fact that pair of types of the pest-- Family XIII as well as Brood XIX-- are emerging concurrently. The last opportunity they appeared at the same time was in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was actually head of state. Why carry out the cicadas have such an unusual life process?