Cicadas overrun White House press plane ahead of President Biden's first overseas trip

The chartered plane hired to ferry the White House press corps to the UK ahead of US President Joe Biden's maiden overseas visit was overrun by cicadas, the insects that emerge above ground once every 17 years.

Reporters traveling to the United Kingdom for President Joe Biden's first overseas trip were delayed seven hours after their chartered plane was overrun by cicadas. The Washington, DC, area is among the many parts of the country that have been swarmed by Brood X cicadas, a large emergence of the loud 17-year insects that take to dive-bombing onto moving vehicles and unsuspecting passersby. Even Biden wasn't spared. The president brushed a cicada from the back of his neck as he chatted with his Air Force greeter after arriving at Joint Base Andrews for Wednesday's flight.