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Cicada Brood X is Gone (But They’ll Be Back)

October 20, 2021

A Fond Farewell to the Brood X Invasion. In the spring of 2021, everyone lucky/cursed enough to live east of Illinois, south of New York and north of Georgia, enjoyed/barfed up over one of the “Seven Insect Wonders of the World”: the emergence of the 17-year periodical cicadas. These insects swarm out into the sunshine …

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