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Expect a pretty quiet summer in Iowa, at least as far as cicadas are concerned.
Some of the big, loud bugs will emerge, as they do every year. But there will be no large broods to cause a noisy infestation here.
Other parts of the country won t be so lucky. With one of the biggest broods of periodical cicadas, the Great Eastern Brood (Brood X), emerging after 17 years underground, billions of the bugs will fill skies and cover trees in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio, and eastern Tennessee, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
While Brood X awakens, the main colony of cicadas that takes over Iowa every 17 years remains asleep.