Yes, this year is a really, really big deal.
across the eastern half of the U.S. will emerge from their multiyear slumber to festoon the trees and sing their loud songs. Brood XIX will emerge for the first time since 2011, Brood XIII for the first time since 2007, and it’s all especially exciting because these two broodsof periodical cicadas, each one a big batch of bugs born in the same year and in the same geographical area.
This year is an exciting one too because we’ve been in a real cicada lull lately—no broods have emerged at all since 2021. “I know it’s like ‘OK, we did this three years ago for Brood X,’ ” Dana says. But to a cicada researcher,brood emergence is a big deal.
Scientists look at it like this: “It’s not really fair for us to think of them as alien invaders descending on us and wreaking havoc,” says Weiss. “We’re privileged to live in the places that they call home and come up to say hello every once in a while.” Besides, theyWell, they are also something else. This June, for the 2024 coemergence, Weiss is hosting a “cicada party” with a variety of themed foods, including chocolate-covered cicadas and teriyaki-marinated cicada skewers.
The emergence really is going to be a whole event. Dana has gotten several emails from people about traveling to Illinois during Memorial Day weekend to see the emergence. She recommends that people go to city parks and look for trees, as cicadas prefer vertical surfaces. “It’s one of those core memories, especially for kids,” says Dana.I know I’ve added it to mine, partly because of how the researchers I spoke with waxed poetic when they talked about their bugs.
“They’re just amazing,” says Simon. Go and listen to the cicadas coming out at night, she says. And the next morning, “it’s like Christmas. It’s like getting trillions of presents. Cicadas will just be
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