“A brood is a population that comes out at the ... says Benson. In the meantime, birds, lizards, and mammals that are insectivores are able to feast to their heart’s content on cicadas.

Brood parasitic birds lay their eggs in the nests of others, sparing themselves the expense of rearing their own young. The resulting coevolutionary arms race includes sophisticated defenses by ...

Hungry as a whole brood, the outsize baby devours everything ... a retired photo editor who’s an avid wildlife photographer, observed the birds’ behavior in 2014 in Amsterdam, where she ...

Once the conditions are right, Brood 14 is slated to emerge in parts ... they’re big and they’re juicy,” she remarked, noting that birds are likely to feast on the cicadas when they emerge.

Brood X last emerged in 2021 ... Pretty much everything from birds to deer to chipmunks eat periodical cicadas, Kritsky said. "There's so many of them it's like a feeding frenzy," he said.