At her homemade store, Miranda has seen no evidence of help from the government. She’d love to see an elevated tank filled with water so people don’t have to “suffer so much in carrying water” during the summer.

“You walk around in a forest where they’re actively chorusing on a hot sunny day. It feels like it’s raining,” said University of Connecticut entomologist John Cooley. That’s their honeydew or waste product coming out the back end ... It’s called cicada rain.”GOOD FOR CATERPILLARS

In the years and areas where cicadas come out, caterpillars enjoy a cicada reprieve.A periodical cicada nymph wiggles in the dirt in Macon, Ga., on Thursday, March 28, 2024, after being found while digging holes for rosebushes. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)A periodical cicada nymph wiggles in the dirt in Macon, Ga., on Thursday, March 28, 2024, after being found while digging holes for rosebushes. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

University of Maryland entomologist Dan Gruner studied caterpillars after the 2021 cicada emergence in the mid-Atlantic. He found that the bugs that turn into moths survived the spring in bigger numbers because the birds that usually eat them were too busy getting cicadas.Periodical cicadas are “lazy, fat and slow,” Gruner said. “They’re extraordinarily easy to capture for us and for their predators.”

A periodical cicada nymph extends a limb in Macon, Ga., on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, after being found while digging holes for rosebushes. Trillions of cicadas are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

A periodical cicada nymph extends a limb in Macon, Ga., on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, after being found while digging holes for rosebushes. Trillions of cicadas are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Players, some wearing headscarves, huddle during competition in Aubervilliers near Paris, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

Players, some wearing headscarves, huddle during competition in Aubervilliers near Paris, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)Players react during a basketball game in Aubervilliers near Paris, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

Players react during a basketball game in Aubervilliers near Paris, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)Former player Salimata Sylla welcomes players before a women’s basketball tournament where players can wear a headscarf, in Aubervilliers near Paris, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)