The Brood X cicadas are here — and many more are on the way. Just the thought of these bugs grosses many people out and fills them with dread. But AP photographer Carolyn Kaster has been getting as close as she can as they start to come out in her area.
A Brood X cicada hangs upside down after shedding its nymph shell.The insects have spent the last 17 years underground, andFor many people, just the thought of these bugs grosses them out and fills them with dread.
“They will crawl up anything, including photographers,” Kaster said. “So I literally had them in my hair, in my ears, up my sleeves, in my shoes. Every once in a while, I reached my limit and had to stand up and shake them off.” Kaster remembers being fascinated by the cicadas in 2004, the last time they emerged, and she’s been looking forward to 2021 because of it.
One of her macro lenses — about a foot and a half long and as narrow as a cigar — comes with a little ring light at the end of it.An adult cicada crawls through the grass.Many of the cicadas in these photos were in College Park, Maryland, as Kaster teamed up with a group of entomologists and their students who were tracking the insects at the University of Maryland.
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