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Brood X Cicadas Set To Emerge After Long Wait Underground
Brood X cicadas emerge from their 17-year slumber this year. Here s how the cicada could affect your pets, livestock and young trees.
120 views PHOTO: Illustrations from Images from Insects: Their Ways and Means of Living by Robert E. Snodgrass, U.S. Bureau of Entomology (Smithsonian Scientific Series, 1930)
Once soil temperatures reach 64 degrees F, folks living in several U.S. states will be in for a treat or a horror show depending on their point of view. It’s nearly time for “Brood X” periodical cicadas
(Magicicada septendecim) to emerge en masse throughout Indiana and in parts of Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Washington D.C., Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.