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One brood of cicadas has been waiting a long time to emerge; now is their time. Brood XIX has been dormant for the past 13 years, but will soon be "screaming" their love across Tennessee.
Cicada-geddon will include the 13-year brood Brood XIX and the 17-year Brood XIII. Brood XIX will be found in 14 states including Tennessee and Brood XIII will be emerge in the Midwest.
Readers across Tennessee, and into Kentucky, are sharing photos of cicadas that they have found in their front yards, on campus and just around their communities with The Tennessean.
Brood XIX includes all four different species of 13-year cicadas: Magicicada tredecim (Walsh and Riley, 1868), Magicicada tredecassini (Alexander and Moore, 1962), Magicicada tredecula (Alexander and Moore, 1962), and the recently discovered Magicicada neotredecim (Marshall and Cooley, 2000). 2011 was the first appearance of Brood XIX since the discovery of the new species, which was first ...
Brood XXIII is only one of three still living 13-year cicada broods; the other two are Brood XIX (the "Great Southern Brood") and Brood XXII (the "Baton Rouge Brood"). Brood XXI (the "Floridian Brood") was a fourth 13-year brood that was last seen in 1870 in the Florida Panhandle and along the Alabama–Mississippi border.
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 ...
Parts of Tennessee are starting to see the emergence of Brood XIX cicadas, which have been dormant for the past 13 years. The brood wasn't expected to emerge in Tennessee until around mid-May, but ...
Thanks to warm temperatures and good conditions, these 13- or 17-year cicadas are emerging from their underground habitats to eat, mate and die, making a whole lot of noise in the process.