Get ready! We predict cicadas will begin emerging next week. EDITED

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6. If I do the 17 year math back in 1987 I camped in the dunes at the national seashore

beach in VA and we soon became aware that it was a cicada year. However despite the at times really loud chirping it was a great trip. We had hit a roadside stand a bought a big bag of roasted peanuts in the shell.. We pulled into the site late so we put up the tent and crashed. In the morning we heard rustling and peeked out of the tent and realized we had left the large bag of peanuts out on the picnic table. There was a bushy squirrel that had gotten into it. He would pack as many as he could fit in his cheeks then scurry off and bury them in sand near the trees. We watched him work for an hour or so loading up his caches in different spots. Then on the beach if you layed down and looked to either side you would eventually see a pair of eyes on stalks pop up out of a hole in the sand and then crab attached to them would pop up and start scurrying sideways. If we popped up the crab would go scurrying back to its hole. It inspired us to sample the crab and other seafood at the area restaurants on a regularly basis.