So, the funniest story in the news today (at least to me anyway) was Biden’s delayed trip to the U.K. Apparently, the cicadas grounded Air Force One and all the passengers. Cicadas are a known pestilence that wreak havoc on unsuspecting moving objects (presidents included). These creatures wait 17 years to emerge, but when they do they want to world to know it.

According to cicadamania.com (yes, there’s a website for it), this not-so-little bugger really bugs us every year, it’s just every 17 years they have a party and everyone from their clan (formally ‘brood) attends.

While reading about the divebombing attack to Biden’s neck, I began to wonder, isn’t cicada another name for locust?

It would seem that I am not the only one thinking this long-held (mis)conception. A-z-animalsl.com set me straight by giving a through definition of the differences, but to keep you awake, suffice it to say if you are to have an invasion of one of them, you would choose the cicada, which is smaller in size, less destructive, lives a shorter lifespan, and procreate in vastly smaller proportions.

Cicadas do not present as a plague. King Ramses may have been less concerned by an infestation of cicada instead of the dreaded locust (dreaded by all but John the Baptist) that God sent to motivate him to let the enslaved Israelites go. 

As for me, I still won’t know the difference when I hear the song in the night, and will rest in the assurance that God knows. God always knows. He loves you… yeah, yeah, yeah.