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Welcome back the cicada

Maybe as many one to two million per acre.  If you’re in a heavily wooded area a very noisy time may be coming your way.  The 17-year wait for this cicada brood is over.

 

Shelby County’s Purdue Cooperative Extension Educator Scott Gabbard says Brood X is coming.

 

 

Gabbard says the female cicadas will lay eggs and that will result in some areas experiencing a lot of twigs and branches falling off.

 

 

Typically, the damage to trees is minimal.

 

 

The phenomenon that is the cicada eruption could be more gradual depending upon where you are.

 

 

Northern Illinois is expected to be hit by the next brood to emerge, Brood XIII, in 2024.

 

Southern Indiana joins Northern Kentucky, Maryland, and Pennsylvania as the primary locations for Brood X.  As many as 11 other states could be involved.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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