Some are dreading the arrival of millions of Brood X cicadas across Tennessee but one expert hopes people will share his fascination for the big-eyed bugs.
Cicadas to emerge soon in Tri-State
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CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Billions of cicadas will emerge in early May from underground lairs across Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, and Southeastern Indiana after their 17-year hiatus.
Dean of Behavioral and Natural Sciences at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati Gene Kritsky says the cicadas are likely to emerge on May 13 plus or minus two days, so it could be as early as May 11 or as late as May 15.
Experts say that one acre of land can produce up to 1.5 million cicadas.
“They’re not going to bite. They’re not going to sting as far as pests go. If you have a dog, for example, that doesn’t know when to stop eating and just wants to eat cicadas that he or she can find, that’s not good, that could cause a bowel obstruction,” Kritsky said.
Mount St. Joseph using crowd-sourced app to track Brood X cicada emergence
Cicada Safari is an app that lets you become an amateur scientist, and it could lead to more cicadas being counted than ever before.
and last updated 2021-04-28 21:53:37-04
CINCINNATI â Brood X is coming, and before you run away from the massive amount of cicadas, a new mobile app might convince you to stick around.
Cicada Safari is an app that lets you become an amateur scientist, and it could lead to more cicadas being counted than ever before. You go out and look for cicadas in your area, and when you find one, you open the app and you take a photograph of the cicada, said Dr. Gene Kritsky, Dean of Behavioral and Natural Sciences at Mount St. Joseph s University.
While some may dread the arrival of the noisy, big-eyed bugs, one expert hopes people will help track their emergence. Cicada Safari, an app first launched in 2019, helps users document and learn about periodical cicadas as they spread across the United States.
Gene Kritsky, a periodical cicada expert and dean of Behavioral and Natural Sciences at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, helped develop the app. Researchers were especially limited by COVID-19 restrictions in spring 2020, Kritsky said. But the app spurred on thousands of records of periodical cicadas including some in unexpected places or off their usual schedule. Last year, we had not one but four broods emerge off-cycle, he said. We wouldn t have had any of that without the app.
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