在地下呆里17年后，今年将有数百万只蝉出现

Get ready for an invasion of noisy insects.

准备好迎接吵闹的昆虫入侵吧。

As many as 1.5 million cicadas are expected to darken the skies after 17 years underground and descend upon North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia sometime this month, according to AccuWeather.

据AccuWeather报道，预计在地下17年后，多达150万只蝉横空出世，并在本月的某个时候袭击北卡罗来纳州、弗吉尼亚州和西弗吉尼亚州。

The bugs typically start coming out of the ground when the soil reaches 64 degrees, sometime around mid-May — but they can keep coming until July, the weather service said.

气象部门说，当土壤温度达到64度时，大约就是在5月中旬的时候，这些虫子通?；岽拥孛媾莱隼?，它们会一直呆到7月份。

Michael Skvarla, director of the insect identification lab at Pennsylvania State University, said a stretch of cold weather will only delay the inevitable.

宾夕法尼亚州立大学昆虫鉴定实验室主任迈克尔斯卡瓦拉(Michael Skvarla)表示，一段时间的寒冷天气只会推迟不可避免的结果。

“The cold certainly won’t kill the cicadas off,” he said.

他说：“寒冷当然不会杀死蝉。”。

While cicadas don’t pose any harm to humans, they can damage plants and trees — and sure are noisy.

虽然蝉不会对人类造成任何伤害，但它们会对植物和树木造成伤害——而且肯定很吵。

Skvarla likened the “demeaning” sound of a cicada swarm to “an insect-sized fleet of jets preparing for lift-off.”

斯卡瓦拉把蝉群“低沉”的声音比作“一支昆虫大小的喷气式飞机准备起飞”。

Cicadas are typically underground for 13 or 17 years, but they don’t just hibernate — they eat tree roots and dig tunnels, and keep tabs on what’s happening up above.

蝉通常在地下13或17年，但它们不仅冬眠-它们吃树根和挖隧道，并密切关注着地面上发生的事情。

When they do surface, they have a short lifespan of about a month, but females leave behind hundreds of eggs — ready for another invasion years from now.

当它们爬出地面的时候，它们的寿命会很短，只有一个月左右，但是雌性蝉会留下了数百枚卵子，准备好在几年后再次入侵。