As springtime temperatures increase, so does the anticipation — or anxiety, depending who you talk to — about this year’s rare, extra-large emergence of periodical cicadas. Two different broods, Brood ...
Feeling itchy? You may have the latest brood of cicadas to blame. The estimated trillions of periodical brood cicadas that emerged in multiple U.S. states this year may be gone for the foreseeable ...
Some 17-year cicadas appear early as stragglers due to environmental factors. Soil temperature, especially around 64°F, triggers emergence timing. Stragglers may form new "shadow broods" with shifted ...