Billions of cicadas are getting ready to awaken from a 17-year dormancy -- and the Science Channel wants you to watch it happen live.
The network has installed a Cicada Cam in a terrarium to give an upclose look at the bizarre moment in nature. The noisy creatures are waking up after a nearly two decade hibernation all across the Eastern seaboard. They have already started popping up in Staten Island and Washington, D.C.
The live cam will also show how the incestuous bugs are born, eat and live out their life cycle.
"Like a scene from a horror flick, these creepy crawlers emerge from ground every 17 years to invade the mid-Atlantic," the Science Channel says on its site. "We found these Brood II Cicadas taking over the nation's capital. During the next few weeks, they will be emerging from their lengthy slumber to molt and mate. From North Carolina to Pennsylvania, little children and grown-ups alike will recoil in horror from the Cicada Invasion."
The Science Channel is also airing a special on cicadas and swarms of creatures on Sunday, May 26.