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Two Cicada Broods Emerge Together

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Re: Two Cicada Broods Emerge Together

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Post by JKCalhoun »

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...

Re: Two Cicada Broods Emerge Together

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Post by giarc »

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.

Re: Two Cicada Broods Emerge Together

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Post by drewcoo »

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 15 broods in total. They emerge on 13- or 17-year cycles.

https://cicadas.uconn.edu/broods/

When I lived in the PNW, I really missed cicadas. Am looking forward to this year's songs!

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