Cicadas liven up Staten Island with song and sex
Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - 15:00
in Biology & Nature
The orange-eyed bugs put the New York borough in the spotlight, with an estimated 600 insects for every human.NEW YORK — There are bugs in the trees. There are bugs on the shrubs, on screen doors, on barbecue grills, on front steps. There are shells of bugs on the ground, crunchy as tempura, and bug bodies clinging onto leaves, their dead orange eyes still beady.