{"id":6586,"date":"2024-04-02T20:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=6586"},"modified":"2024-04-02T20:00:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T17:00:35","slug":"wide-swath-of-us-gets-buggy-as-two-cicada-broods-intrude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=6586","title":{"rendered":"Wide swath of US gets buggy as two cicada broods intrude"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/wide-swath-of-us-gets-buggy-as-two-cicada-broods-intrude.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<h4>These two broods emerge together only once every 221 years, last occurring in 1803<\/h4>\n<p>By Will Dunham<\/p>\n<div class=\"cypru-video-ads\" id=\"cypru-446045810\">\n<div id=\"cypru-1933233805\" data-cypru-trackid=\"478051\" data-cypru-trackbid=\"1\" class=\"cypru-target\">\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-5399406688695-0\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cicadas, the noisy but rather tame insects that spend most of their lives underground, are poised to put on\u00a0quite a show\u00a0starting this month in a wide swath of the United States.<br \/>\nTwo sizable adjacent broods of periodical cicadas \u2013 the kind that spend a specific number of years underground as nymphs before popping up together for a brief bacchanalia of singing and mating \u2013 are set to emerge simultaneously, one concentrated in Midwestern states and the other in the South and Midwest.<br \/>\nThese two broods \u2013 one on a 17-year cycle and the other on a 13-year cycle \u2013 together span parts of 17 states. And, according to experts, they will number more than a trillion.<br \/>\n\u201cThey live as adults for just a few short weeks and then die after reproducing. In total, the adult portion of their extremely long lives is less than 0.5 per cent of their total life \u2013 99.5 per cent of their life is spent underground,\u201d George Washington University entomologist John Lill said.<br \/>\nThese two broods emerge together only once every 221 years, last occurring in 1803. While nymphs in small numbers already are being spotted, the first big wave in the coming weeks is expected in the southernmost areas of the broods in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, with the cicadas further northern emerging in subsequent weeks. The last cicadas in these broods will be lucky to see July.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is the first time these two broods are going to be emerging in the same year since Thomas Jefferson was in the White House and the same year as the Louisiana Purchase,\u201d said entomologist Floyd Shockley of the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of Natural History, referring to the huge US land purchase from France, some of which is inhabited by these two broods.<br \/>\nCicadas are relatively large insects \u2013 1-2 inches (2.5-5 cm) long \u2013 with sturdy bodies, bulging compound eyes and membranous wings.<br \/>\nThe 17-year cycle Brood XIII is found in northern Illinois, eastern Iowa, southern Wisconsin and a few counties in northwestern Indiana. The 13-year cycle Brood XIX is distributed in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.<br \/>\n\u201cThere\u2019s nowhere else in the world where it\u2019s possible to see anything at all like this, so I always counsel people to treat them with the respect and awe due to such remarkable creatures,\u201d said University of Connecticut evolutionary biologist John Cooley.<br \/>\nThere are more than 3,000 species of cicadas globally. Only nine are periodical, and seven of those are found in North America.<br \/>\n\u201cI find them delightfully awkward, as they are not particularly agile flyers. I also find them captivating and endearing. They are very gentle, and I also find them quite beautiful with the deep red eyes, bluish black body, and the orange wings,\u201d Shockley said.<br \/>\nWhile underground, nymphs feed on plant juices from the roots of deciduous trees and shrubs. They begin emerging, mainly at night, once the soil reaches a certain warmth, crawling up hard surfaces \u2013 tree trunks, telephone poles, fences, trash cans and more \u2013 and moult into adult winged cicadas.<br \/>\nAdult males \u201csing\u201d to attract females using special organs on the abdomen. Females that are attracted to a particular male\u2019s call respond with wing flicks, which also make a sound. Pairs then mate.<br \/>\nThis year marks the first time since 2015 that a 13-year brood emerges at the same time as a 17-year brood, though those were not adjacent.<br \/>\nSome people do not share the fondness for cicadas expressed by the scientists, instead finding them icky and gross.<br \/>\n\u201cInsofar as cicadas and their place, they are making a living, just like everything else,\u201d Cooley said. \u201cThe species have a long history \u2013 millions of years. And that history is much longer and deeper than the history of the landscapes and forests in which they live \u2013 on the order of tens of thousands of years. So the cicadas are a natural part of the ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two sizable adjacent broods of periodical cicadas are set to emerge simultaneously, one on a 17-year cycle and the other on a 13-year cycle, totaling more than a trillion cicadas. 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