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ANOTHER BIG DEAL
Quote: “Nobody alive today will see it happen again.”
Entomologist Floyd W. Shockley wants to mentally prepare you for a historic—and loud—event this spring: two cicada groups emerging simultaneously. The last time Brood XIX, which has a 13-year cycle, and Brood XIII, which has a 17-year cycle, emerged in the same year was in 1803, ...
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@Madken65 Where in the US do these broods live?
I think they're going to be coming to a neighborhood near you real soon...
@Madken65 Will take out my hearing aid.
@Madken65 I found an article that said Northern Illinois. So I hope that means I'm in the clear. Or maybe I'll just hear one brood.
when Napoleon was presumably so fed up by their mating calls that he sold the Louisiana Territory to Thomas Jefferson. The cicadas’ bacchanal will begin in late April. Then they won’t appear together for another 221 years.
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