内容摘要：Superintendent Lee White shares a hug with teacher Vanessa Calderon in the hall of the elementary school in Loving, N.M., on Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Superintendent Lee White shares a hug with teacher Vanessa Calderon in the hall of the elementary school in Loving, N.M., on Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

AP correspondent Julie Walker reports on cicada-geddon: two cicada broods that are about to infest the U.S.The largest geographic brood in the nation --

and coming out every 13 years -- is about to march through the Southeast, having already created countless boreholes in the red Georgia clay. It’s a sure sign of the coming cicada occupation. They emerge when the ground warms to 64 degrees (17.8 degrees Celsius), which is happening earlier than it used to because of, entomologists said. The bugs are brown at first but darken as they mature.Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries. (AP Video: Sharon Johnson, Carolyn Kaster)

Soon after the insects appear in large numbers in Georgia and the rest of the Southeast, cicada cousins that come out every 17 years will inundate Illinois. They are“You’ve got one very widely distributed brood in Brood XIX, but you have a very dense historically abundant brood in the Midwest, your Brood XIII,” said University of Maryland entomologist Mike Raupp.

“And when you put those two together… you would have more than anywhere else any other time,” University of Maryland entomologist Paula Shrewsbury said.

Georgia Institute of Technology biophysicist Saad Bhamla holds a periodical cicada nymph in his hand on the campus of Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta on Thursday, March 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)“I’m superwoman,” Towana Looney told The Associated Press, laughing about outpacing family members on long walks around New York City as she continues her recovery. “It’s a new take on life.”

Looney’s vibrant recovery is a morale boost in the quest to make. Only four other Americans have received hugely experimental transplants of gene-edited pig organs –

– and none lived more than two months.“If you saw her on the street, you would have no idea that she’s the only person in the world walking around with a pig organ inside them that’s functioning,” said Dr. Robert Montgomery of NYU Langone Health, who led Looney’s transplant.