{"id":63153,"date":"2024-05-31T13:53:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T13:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/its-a-big-year-for-cicadas-heres-what-to-know-about-this-years-emergence\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T13:53:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T13:53:54","slug":"its-a-big-year-for-cicadas-heres-what-to-know-about-this-years-emergence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/its-a-big-year-for-cicadas-heres-what-to-know-about-this-years-emergence\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a big year for cicadas. Here\u2019s what to know about this year\u2019s emergence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the most peculiar of North America\u2019s natural wonders \u2014 the synchronized mass mating frenzies of big, obsessed insects called periodical cicadas \u2014 is playing out across the southeastern and midwestern United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The year 2024 offers a particularly good display. The biggest, in geographic extent, of all the in-sync groups (called broods) is emerging from soil into daylight this spring. Known as Brood XIX, it spans roughly from Georgia into Illinois. And unlike 2021\u2019s extravaganza<\/a> (SN: 12\/14\/21<\/em>), this time a second multispecies brood in the Midwest (called Brood XIII) means all seven of North America\u2019s named species will be showing off somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n