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788. The night here is not quiet

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When the children came back from school, they saw several small houses built, and they screamed excitedly, threw down their schoolbags and ran in and out.

During the meal, Qin Shiou called them several times but no one listened, so he spread his hands and shouted, "You are all older children, can you stop being so second-class?"

Shirley said dissatisfiedly: "This was originally prepared for us. Do you think a little guy aged six or seven would use a juicer and an ice machine?"

Qin Shiou shrugged and said indifferently: "Very good. If you like it, just sleep inside. If you live here in the future, you won't have to come back to have a meal."

"Then are we really sleeping here?" Shirley looked at Qin Shiou and asked. The cold drink cabin has a small bed and a home cabin, which even has a bathroom.

Qin Shiou shrugged and said, "What do you love? Wait until the middle of the night to feed the mosquitoes."

The children were very interested in sleeping in the cabin in the wild, and actually ran in with their little bedding, but they ran back not long after.

Qin Shiou was talking about the farm with Mario. When he saw the children running back in dust, he smiled gloatingly: "What's wrong? Are there many mosquitoes?"

Winnie stood up and said, "It's okay, I'll go find you electric mosquito coils."

Shirley wrinkled her pretty face and said, "No, it's not a mosquito, it's a bug. The bugs are squeaking, the screams are too noisy to sleep."

"Insect?" Qin Shiou was stunned. Then he reacted, "Are you talking about cicadas?"

Cicadas are cicadas, but naturally there is no such name in North America.

Shirley and others nodded. Gordon said dissatisfiedly: "Yes, it's just that kind of bug. It's really annoying. It screams endlessly. They also attract many other bugs around. The roof of the hut is full of bug shit!"

Qin Shiou didn't pay attention. It seemed that there were a lot of cicadas this summer.

Shirley and other children called cicadas insects. It was not that they were cute, but that Canadian children called this insect. Because this thing is rare, they only met once in their childhood.

Canadian cicadas and Chinese cicadas are not the same species. Cicadas are insects that grow periodically. Their nymphs survive underground, and the adults will eventually live on the ground for a period of time, usually in summer and early autumn months, and then die.

Most Chinese cicadas are three-year-old cicadas, five-year-old cicadas, and Canadian cicadas are a type of North American cicadas, with their name being the Seventeen-year-old cicadas!

You can understand from the name that these cicadas can live for seventeen years, but they have more than sixteen years to hide underground and fly out of the ground in the last few months. They look for a spouse to leave their eggs and then die.

Now Indians in some places will use cicadas to calculate their lives. When cicadas appear on a large scale for the first time, they may still be children; when they get married, large groups of cicadas will appear; when their own children get married, they will appear again, and when they are about to retire, they will appear.

If you are lucky, these Indians can go through another era of cicadas erupting and then die.

The cicada is a global creature. Every year, Qin Shiou also heard the cicadas chirping on the farewell island last year, but the number is small, so he didn't care.

But this year, it seems that the cicadas suddenly become messy, and the number sounds much higher than last year.

Qin Shiou mentioned it briefly, and Mario smiled and said, "Didn't you pay attention? This year is the seventeen-year cicada outbreak cycle, and the three grassland provinces are already preparing for disaster prevention."

At that time, Qin Shiou didn't care. The cicada only sucked tree sap, did not hurt people, bite people, and did not eat crops and food. What kind of disaster could it be considered? He thought Mario was a joke, but a few days later he found out that this was no joke!

The cicada population exploded very rapidly. Qin Shiou didn't feel anything the day before. The next day when he was running in the morning, he suddenly saw a group of black bugs flying out of the woods. After a round, he flew back. Then a squeaking sound rang out of the woods.

"Damn it, they are all cicadas, right?" Qin Shiou asked in shock.

The soldiers ran with Qin Shiou. When they heard his question, Heidao smiled and said, "Of course, that was cicada, that was cicada for seventeen years. I was deeply impressed by them. When I was on duty in Washington seventeen years ago, I suffered from them!"

As he said that, Black Dao sighed: "God, can you let time go slowly? It's been seventeen years in the blink of an eye. At that time, I was still a young man, alas."

Qin Shiou said strangely: "What kind of cicadas can make you suffer? They don't bite people or eat crops, or are they a delicious food."

A group of soldiers stared at him with strange eyes, and BB Shuang exaggeratedly said: "Food? No, I won't eat such ugly guys. They are like, uh, like aliens, yes, aliens, very scary!"

The air-feeding bag also said: "They do not bite people, but they are very annoying. As long as there are trees, they will exist. You have to drive them away, otherwise they will buzz all day and night, creaking and chewing the leaves above your head... God! That's a disaster!"

"Cicadas do not eat leaves, ok?" Qin Shiou said.

The trigger helps the air bag defended: "No, they eat it. There was a small poplar tree in my yard. As a result, it was about seventeen years ago, a group of cicadas invaded it. Not long after, the leaves disappeared. Naturally, the poor little tree also died!"

Qin Shiou laughed loudly. He thought these Americans were quite interesting. Some areas were experts, and some areas were idiotic and cute.

There is nothing to argue about. Qin Shiou agreed with their statement and ran to the woods to listen for a while.

The noisy cicadas are so loud that they are not nice at all, but they are a little harsh, which shows how huge their number is.

After returning to the villa, he checked the Internet. Mario was not joking. The three grassland provinces did issue a warning for the outbreak of cicadas for seventeen years.

Depending on the adult maturity month, there are two varieties of seventeen-year cicadas, located in the United States and Canada. They have not been found in other parts of the world except the North American continent.

In fact, people have recorded cicadas since the beginning of settlement in mainland America, but even today, entomologists still cannot fully understand this insect that is said to be the largest number on Earth.

The seventeen-year-old cicadas in the United States occupy more than 15 states, and the entire mid-Atlantic region was captured by them, such as most of Virginia, New York, Western Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, northern Georgia, etc.

The seventeen-year-old cicadas in Canada mainly live in the southern regions of the three grassland provinces, Ontario, Quebec and Newfoundland, such as the Farewell Island.

The reason why this insect is regarded as a disaster is because they erupt very violently. In forest areas where climatic conditions are adapted, the average number of cicadas per acre will reach 1.5 million! (To be continued)
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