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  2. Periodical cicadas - Wikipedia

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    In 1998, an emergence contained a brood of 17-year cicadas (Brood IV) in western Missouri and a brood of 13-year cicadas (Brood XIX) over much of the rest of the state. Each of the broods are the state's largest of their types. As the territories of the two broods overlap (converge) in some areas, the convergence was the state's first since ...

  3. What to know about the historic cicada emergence in Chicago ...

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    Cicadas are beginning to emerge from the ground around Chicagoland and Illinois. Two broods will converge on the state in a historic emergence. ... three species that appear every 17 years in ...

  4. Brood XIII - Wikipedia

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    Brood XIII (also known as Brood 13 or Northern Illinois Brood) is one of 15 separate broods of periodical cicadas that appear regularly throughout the midwestern United States. Every 17 years, Brood XIII tunnels en masse to the surface of the ground, mates, lays eggs in tree twigs, and then dies off over several weeks.

  5. The double emergence of Broods XIX and XIII is rare, occurring every 221 years (when the 13-year and 17-year cicadas overlap, as 13 times 17 is 221).

  6. Why are 17-year cicadas so loud, and how do they make noise?

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    Here's why cicadas make so much noise and how they do it. Brood XIII 17-year cicadas mating in Lake Geneva, Wis., on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. Why do cicadas make noise?

  7. Bug haters, beware: After 200 years, the cicadas are ... - AOL

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    Brood XIII, which appears every 17 years, and Brood XIX, on a 13-year cycle, will coincide for the first time in over 200 years. These cicadas are smaller varieties, growing to 1.4 inches, but ...

  8. Brood X - Wikipedia

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    His poem The Sunset Years of Samuel Pride mentions the 17year cyclical swarms of the "locusts". [ 41 ] Bob Dylan 's song Day of the Locusts in his 1970 album New Morning refers to the Brood X cicadas that were noisily present in Princeton, New Jersey in June 1970 when Dylan received an honorary degree from Princeton University .

  9. What are 17-year cicadas? What are 13-year cicadas? - AOL

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    Why do the cicadas only come out every 13-17 years? It's not completely known why certain cicadas emerge so infrequently, but it's thought to aid the species' reproduction and survival.