Zillions of Cicadas!

ci-ca-da .....n, pl, a large homopterous insect, maturing in cycles of 5 to 17 years, the adult male producing a prolonged shrill sound by vibrating a set of membranes on it's underside.
     About two weeks ago, this awful noise started and we just knew it was some kind of machine making this sound.  We walked around the whole place, trying to figure out where it was coming from.  ....you couldn't tell.  It took us a few days to figure out this sound was from the 13 year cicadas.  It didn't sound like a normal sound that you hear every summer from the 1 year cicadas.  The one good thing is, the noise stops late evening BUT it starts up again early morning.  We have been told, that the cicadas come out of the ground, sheds their skins, the females lay the eggs in the trees that turns into worms, which falls from the trees and crawls back into the ground and stays for 13 years.  ( at least in another 13 years we'll be so old, we might not be able to hear them.....and we'll be saying " what the heck are those big bugs?")  First we were told, this all took two weeks to take place, BUT Chuck read in the paper that it will last four to six weeks!  My first reaction was " OH NO!"  but I'm looking at it as....we only have 2 to 4 weeks left..lol.  It is the " talk of conversation" around here and the chickens LOVE them as a treat.  Chuck picks them off the side of the girls mansion and throws them into their yard.  The girls fight over them and in one gulp....the cicada is gone!  Here's to wishing they were ALL gone!