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Noisy cicadas expected to return en masse to several states
The Associated Press
Updated: 10:21 a.m. ET March 12, 2004
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - After 17 years of relative quiet, Mother Nature is bringing the noise.
Periodical cicadas, a species of the grasshopper-like insects best known for the scratching, screeching “singing” of the males, will emerge this May, filling forests in more than a dozen states. Almost as abruptly as they arrive, they’ll disappear underground for another 17 years.
“Why do certain insects take only one year to develop, and others take two or three? It’s just part of their genetic programming,” said Greg Hoover, senior extension entomologist for Penn State University.
There are at least 13 broods of 17-year cicadas, plus another five broods that emerge every 13 years. The last to emerge, Brood IX, was seen last spring in parts of West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina.
'Big Brood' coming
This year, it’s time for Brood X, the so-called “Big Brood,” to surface. Its range stretches from Georgia, west through Tennessee and to isolated pockets of Missouri, north along the Ohio Valley and into Michigan, and east into New Jersey and New York.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4513485
Noisy cicadas expected to return en masse to several states
The Associated Press
Updated: 10:21 a.m. ET March 12, 2004
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - After 17 years of relative quiet, Mother Nature is bringing the noise.
Periodical cicadas, a species of the grasshopper-like insects best known for the scratching, screeching “singing” of the males, will emerge this May, filling forests in more than a dozen states. Almost as abruptly as they arrive, they’ll disappear underground for another 17 years.
“Why do certain insects take only one year to develop, and others take two or three? It’s just part of their genetic programming,” said Greg Hoover, senior extension entomologist for Penn State University.
There are at least 13 broods of 17-year cicadas, plus another five broods that emerge every 13 years. The last to emerge, Brood IX, was seen last spring in parts of West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina.
'Big Brood' coming
This year, it’s time for Brood X, the so-called “Big Brood,” to surface. Its range stretches from Georgia, west through Tennessee and to isolated pockets of Missouri, north along the Ohio Valley and into Michigan, and east into New Jersey and New York.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4513485