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Officials from a national park in northern Maryland are cautioning residents who were eager to see the disappearance of pesky Brood X cicadas that there are new cicadas on the way.
In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Catoctin Mountain Park said that while Brood X, which the National Park Service says is the largest of the 17-year-cycle broods, may be gone, annual cicadas are about to emerge.
The dog-day cicada, or Neotibicen canicularis, got its name because it emerges during July and August, the hottest months of summer, according to the Arthropod Museum.
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“Although they are labeled as annual, they take 2-3 years to develop and emerge. Unlike periodical cicadas, the population is not synced up allowing an emergence to happen every year giving the appearance of being annual,” Catoctin Mountain Park said in its post.
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