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Veterinarians said that if a dog seems to like eating cicadas, then owners should keep a closer eye on their pets when they are outside for the next few weeks.
Where are the cicadas?
Clay no longer lives in Indiana, but has traveled back to Bloomington for a few weeks. He said he wouldn t miss this incredible phenomenon.
Larger numbers of cicadas have been reported further south in Louisville. And there are a few that are already emerging in Bloomington around the IU campus in recent days, Clay said. But he has only heard one or two lonely peeps of them calling, he added.
He thinks birds are likely picking off many of the new adults that are popping up, adding that the strategy of emerging en masse every 17 years is to overwhelm predators ability to eat them all.
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The cicadas are coming, and there will be millions of them.
In some places, concentrations of the dinosaur-era insects will be as high as 1.5 million per acre.
The natural phenomenon has been taking place every 17 years since the Ice Age. Some people will be thrilled to see the cacophonous swarm. Others, Purdue University entomologist Cliff Sadof points out, may look at the millions of flapping, bumbling insects with disgust.
For both types of people, there s good and bad news: These cicadas will not all be in the same place. Some areas may have massive concentrations heavily wooded neighborhoods have a good chance of getting swarmed. But some areas won t have any cicadas at all.