Cicada Brood II, 2013

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I guess Brood II of cicadas, the only one found this far into the northeast, is scheduled to appear in June. (Brood XI, found only here in CT, went extinct in 1954.)

My thought is that after two massive freak snowstorms, two hurricanes, and an earthquake, a plague of locusty things was only to be expected. We’re also listening for the rumble of an emerging volcano.

Anyway, one thing at a time. Folks from the Broody-er states, school me on these ugly weird-looking bugs that my dogs are going to be eating.

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Brood II map

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Greetings from Brood XIII territory!
The Chicago Tribune’s “Cicada Central” page, leftover from the 2007 emergence:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/chi-cicadas-specialpackage,0,159197.special
A nearby park district’s “Cicada Mania”:

http://www.lcfpd.org/cicadas/
General information (link is to Brood II page):

http://www.magicicada.org/about/brood_pages/broodII.php
(oops! ninja-ed by Lute Skywatcher, above)
Cicada fan page:

Many of these sources link to blogs or board discussions of previous emergences, often with very entertaining posts.

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Excerise caution when driving with your windows open. A cicada can be very distracting when it whacks you in the arm or head at 50 mph, or when it starts buzzing somewhere around the rear window.