# Cicada Brood II, 2013

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**Created:** [April 28, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicada-brood-ii-2013/656932 "2013-04-28T19:12:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicada-brood-ii-2013/656932/1 "2013-04-28T19:12:37Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicada-brood-ii-2013/656932/2 "2013-04-28T19:45:37Z")

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[Brood II map](http://www.magicicada.org/about/brood_pages/broodII.php)

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**Author:** ![FeAudrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7feea3/32.png) [@FeAudrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FeAudrey)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicada-brood-ii-2013/656932/3 "2013-04-29T19:18:51Z")

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> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> … school me on these ugly weird-looking bugs …

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

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

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

> **[Cicada Mania: Cicada Photos, Sounds, News & Facts](https://www.cicadamania.com/)**
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> Cicada Mania is dedicated to teaching you about cicada insects, their life cycle & life span, how they make their sound, what they eat and what eats them, and when they'll next arrive.

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

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**Author:** ![Furious\_Marmot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cicada-brood-ii-2013/656932/4 "2013-04-29T21:04:46Z")

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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.