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Billions of cicadas may be coming soon to trees near you

  • Written by John Cooley, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
imagePeriodical cicada in Washington, D.C., May 2017.Katha Schulz/Flickr, CC BY

A big event in the insect world is approaching. Starting sometime in April or May, depending on latitude, one of the largest broods of 17-year cicadas will emerge from underground in a dozen states, from New York west to Illinois and south into northern Georgia. This group...

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