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Re: Two Cicada Broods Emerge Together

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Post by nkozyra »

drewcoo wrote: post #8

The story is a little misleading. > 2024 will mark a rare natural event as two distinct cicada broods emerge together for the first time in over two centuries. That means these two particular broods haven't seen each other in that long. It doesn't mean no broods have coincided in the last two centuries, though that makes for punchier stories. https://www.newsweek.com/cicadas-brood-both-emerging-same-ti... There are 1…

> That means these two particular broods haven't seen each other in that long. It doesn't mean no broods have coincided in the last two centuries, though that makes for punchier stories.

Based on the table linked in this thread, it's rare enough to be interesting on its own. Geographical overlap of broods emerging doesn't appear to have happened since 1998 and then only in Oklahoma.

But yeah, it's weather.com, they've been clickbait since not long after clickbait began.

Re: Two Cicada Broods Emerge Together

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Post by TuringNYC »

For those not familiar with major brood years, it is a sight to see. Depending on where you are, there is a constant ambient echo of cicada shrills. When living outside Washington DC I'd leave the windows and balcony door open to wake up to the cacophony, which started around dawn. Thousands of cicadas would fly across the interstate (Dulles Toll Road in my case) and local parks.

The peak lasts not more than two weeks and in two months everything is gone, except mounds of cicada exoskeletons and bodies.

Re: Two Cicada Broods Emerge Together

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Post by davidmurdoch »

lsowen wrote: post #3

A good resource, with all the broods listed, including the two that are going to emerge this year (North Illinois Brood and Great Southern Brood) and the typical ranges of each brood: https://cicadas.uconn.edu/broods/

We definitely have cicadas in Florida, but that map doesn't show any. Weird.

Re: Two Cicada Broods Emerge Together

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Post by duped »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #6
lsowen wrote: post #3

A good resource, with all the broods listed, including the two that are going to emerge this year (North Illinois Brood and Great Southern Brood) and the typical ranges of each brood: https://cicadas.uconn.edu/broods/

Just did a search, found this image [1]. It looks like the geographical overlap is a small area in Illinois (light orange and brown regions in linked image). [1] https://cdn.britannica.com/32/222432-050-E9798FB1/map-emerge...

Here's a better map [1] that shows the overlap better with sample data from the broods, it's an arc from Springfield to about Kankakee, about 120 miles.

[1] https://cicadas.uconn.edu/broods/

Re: Two Cicada Broods Emerge Together

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Post by dylan604 »

giarc wrote: post #7

I hate news pages that are just a video. I prefer to just casually read news instead of having to watch a whole video on the topic. I find Apple News shows me a ton of these type of articles (looking at you MSNBC) and I wish I could toggle some option to never see pages like that again.

I mean, MSNBC is a cable news channel, so taking clips of its feed and reusing them as news posts is only logical. It's not like they have an army of writers creating news articles. They find things for their hosts to blab about in front of a camera. If you don't like that style, remove it from your feed. Apple News provides tools to remove/hide specific sources from your feed. Complaining about MSNBC providing video only clips is like complaining the Detroit Lions never plays baseball. That's not what they do

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Post by selectodude »

changoplatanero wrote: post #17

What’s the precision of individual cicadas being able to follow their regular timeline? Like if 10,000 cicadas in one area are in a 13 year cycle how many will accidentally wake up before then?

I can’t give you any hard numbers but enough of the 2024 brood was definitely noisy last summer in Chicago.

Re: Two Cicada Broods Emerge Together

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Post by dylan604 »

TuringNYC wrote: post #12

For those not familiar with major brood years, it is a sight to see. Depending on where you are, there is a constant ambient echo of cicada shrills. When living outside Washington DC I'd leave the windows and balcony door open to wake up to the cacophony, which started around dawn. Thousands of cicadas would fly across the interstate (Dulles Toll Road in my case) and local parks. The peak lasts not more than two week…

> For those not familiar with major brood years, it is a sight to see.

Around my house this is also known as my cat's happy time. His favorite stalk/catch/toy is a cicada. They respond in the most satisfying ways for him. They make noise. They flop around. They fly. They are the dumbest things around. They are the ultimate free toy. EXCEPT for when they are in the house. Then, they are the most annoying thing, and cause for quite the ruckus as the cat is jumping on/over/off of anything/everything in an attempt to re-catch the thing bouncing off the walls/ceiling

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