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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.
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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Not all of Tennessee will have to deal with the cicadas like it does with the 17-year periodical cicadas, according to the University of Tennessee Extension. Only about 18 counties, mainly in ...
Cicadas that are part of both a 13-year and a 17-year brood will emerge at the same time this spring. It will be the first time since 1803—when Thomas Jefferson was President—that these ...