BROOD X has been waiting 17 years to emerge from the ground. What is Brood X? Should we panic? Discover this and more as we answer the age old question: How is it fair that swarms of baby turtles are considered cute, but swarms of bugs are considered “horrifying,” with Mara Wilson. 

Footnotes:

1. Cicada
2. Cicada tymbal 
3. Cicada sounds
4. Holes left by mass cicada emergence (warning for trypophobia)
5. Lots of cicadas!
6. Mass sea turtle hatching! 
7. Giant river turtle!
8. Mass river turtle hatching!
9. Soft coral
10. Stony coral