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Billions of cicadas are emerging, from Cape Cod to north Georgia – here’s how and why we map them

  • Written by Chris Simon, Senior Research Scientist of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
imageThree cicadas in North Carolina during the 2003 Brood IX emergence Chris Simon, CC BY-ND

If they’re in your area, you’ll know it from their loud droning, chirping and buzzing sounds. Cicadas from Brood XIV – one of the largest groups of cicadas that emerge from underground on a 13-year or 17-year cycle – are surfacing in May...

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