This week's question: Having spent 17 years growing underground, trillions of cicadas are starting to hatch across the East Coast and Midwest. The members of Brood X will spend four to six weeks chirping and mating before dying. If Disney were to make an animated movie about a cicada's brief and noisy hunt for love, what rated-PG title could it have?
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THE WINNER: "Can You Hear the Love Tonight"
Eric Beckman, Petaluma, California
SECOND PLACE: "Prince Swarming"
Jason Feltner, Cheyenne, Wyoming
THIRD PLACE: "Shrill Crazy (After 17 Years)"
Mary Jo Astrachan, Oneida, New York
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"You Had Me at SKREEEeee"
Janine Witte, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
"A Bug's Wife"
Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Larvae Me and Leave Me"
Phyllis Klein, New York City
"Love, Actually I Only Have A Few Weeks"
Rich Wolf, Westminster, Maryland
"Kiss Me, Ci-KATE-a"
Michele Lyons, Lawrence, New York
"Ain't Too Loud to Beg"
Jennifer Kitchin, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
"A Bug's Love Life"
Ken Kellam II, Dallas
"The Seventeen Year Itch"
Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, Californai
"The Joy of Insects"
Dave Grossman, Petaluma, California
"Nymph Maniacs"
Andy Roman, Greenacres, Florida
"I'm in the Brood for Love"
Carey Durham, Asheboro, North Carolina
"You Can Hurry Love"
Greg Stein, Prescott, Arizona
"Love and Let's Die"
Miguel Martinez Jr., Columbia, Maryland
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