You say suh-KAY-da, I say suh-KAH-da.
According to well-known Asheville forager Alan Muskat, this has been a very good year for cicadas. That depends, of course, on your perspective. “If your goal is to collect a lot of cicadas because they won’t be back for 17 years, it was great,” he says.
Not so great if you had planned an outdoor wedding in May or June, when cicada Brood XIV hatched in Western North Carolina to buzz around dive-bombing picnics and Little League baseball games…