Hurricane Helene’s deadly flooding in western North Carolina disrupted the underground nests of stinging insects, causing them to swarm workers ... and is allowing people to buy epinephrine ...

Many millions of weensy insects called ... Now they can’t eat us, and that enzyme does not work to break down us, but it can cause a little bit of irritation in some people,” Mitchell says.

In Ohio, they will emerge in a more than dozen counties, per ODNR, mostly in Southwest Ohio: While swarms of noisy insects may be unsettling for some, cicadas are harmless to people and pets ...