.CHARACTER IS ACTUALLY Curing Americans to all sort of spectacles. On April 8th millions experienced a total sun eclipse. A lot of will definitely be much less charmed when, in the coming days, trillions of cicadas appear in the nation's Midwest and also south-east. The throng will definitely be abnormally large considering that two forms of the insect-- Brood XIII and also Family XIX-- are emerging all at once. The final time they showed up concurrently was in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was actually head of state. Why perform the cicadas have such an uncommon life cycle?