Getting Warmer...
If you're in Georgia, Tennessee, or the Washington, DC, area, you're probably surrounded by lots of cicadas. However, in much of the US, there's been an unusual streak of cold spring weather that has delayed the Magicicada emergence well past its expected date - a phenomenon significant enough that the Weather Channel even featured it on today's app feed, with lots of nice footage of periodical cicadas and a few random annual cicada clips, too: https://weather.com/news/video/cold-weather-delays-arrival-of-billions-of-cicadas?pl=pl-the-latest&fbclid=IwAR12g0K6RxB14HAk6A-AqHMVGfGPPxNzWE22VMCkQCnDFVjOe5eHRLHwQjk
Fortunately, warm weather is on its way, and those of us who have been watching observations pouring in from balmier climes will finally be able to share in the joy that is a Brood X emergence. A few shots of adults and tenerals have even come in from greater Cincinnati, where we hope that the rising temps will bring nymphs out of their burrows by mid-week.
As the emergence continues and numbers grow, consider adding notes from the "Density of Emergence" observation field to your iNat records - tell us how many cicadas you saw or how loud the calling is (when it begins). Just one cicada? Lots of cicadas? Rock-concert-level calling? Recording your experience can help determine whether the cicadas you're seeing are part of self-sustaining populations of Brood X, whether they might be pioneer cicadas "colonizing" a new area, or whether they're stragglers who might belong to a different brood.
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