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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.
A Journal Star photo from 1990 shows Megan Gibbs of Metamora covered in molted shells of periodical cicadas during the 1990 emergence of Brood XIII in central Illinois.
Brood XIII consists of three species of cicada. Also in 2024, Brood XIII (Magicicada septendecim, Magicicada cassini, and Magicicada septendecula), a 17-year species, will emerge in:Illinois ...
Like many insects, cicadas are attracted to lights, adds Cicada Mania. Adult periodical cicadas, however, are most active during the day. This article originally appeared on Journal Star: How long ...
Cicadas are beginning to emerge from the ground around Chicagoland and Illinois. Two broods will converge on the state in a historic emergence. They belong to Brood XIX, four species that appear ...
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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. It is presumed ...
A Brood X cicada with abdominal Massospora cicadina infection in Bethesda, Maryland (May 31, 2021) In April 1800, Benjamin Banneker , who lived near Ellicott's Mills, Maryland , wrote in his record book that he recalled a "great locust year" in 1749, a second in 1766 during which the insects appeared to be "full as numerous as the first", and a ...