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Mega Brood Coming This Summer

Friday, 12 January 2024, 19:00 Dr. Tar Uncategorized 24

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In an extremely rare natural phenomenon, two different cicada broods will explode from the ground at the same time this year.

Some species of cicadas are periodical, spending most of their lives underground in their nymph life stage before emerging from the ground as adults to feed and mate. Millions of cicadas within the same brood can emerge at the same time, but this occurs only once every 13 or 17 years. More

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  3. Meh. I’m pushing 60 and lived in the Midwest for all of it, not the first Cicada Convergence I’ve seen. It gets noisy for a bit, then crunchy underfoot for a couple of days, and ends with a bunch of fat and happy birds.

    I’m too old to put ’em in my sister’s hair any more, so I’ll have to leave that aspect of it to the younger set.

    If they can figure out which ones are the girls…

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  4. Must be the end, 17X13 is 221 X3 for these two groups plus the regular annual crew , plus 3 for the number of months this will exist.
    Saw someone on tv do this kind of thing once.
    Actually wonder what mixing the internal clocks will do to their timing.

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  7. Iv kept track of cicadas since I was 10 or so. Traded our cicadas for other cicadas from around the world. And they make great fishing bait. Take one of those big as your thumb Dog Day Cicadas, rubberband it to a double hook & throw it in a lilly pad patch & hold on.

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  12. “killing numerous other insects”

    How do cicadas kill other insects? I was taught (maybe incorrectly) that cicadas don’t have mouths and therefore don’t eat while above ground. So what would be their motivation to kill other insects, and kill them with what exactly? They’re such a passive insect, aside from the buzzing. Speaking of buzzing, I’m always fascinated how their sounds sync with each other and create a wave of sound that echoes through the neighborhood.

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  15. Dr. Tar, what happens when XIX and XIII mate where the 2 broods overlap? You could get offspring from a XIII that’s XIX, or vice versa. Some of the 13-year may already have come from brood XIII, but how would we ever know?

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  18. I love when my little rat terrier gets one in her mouth and wants to bring it into the house. She won’t eat it but stares at me like she’s playing a mouth harp….

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