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Male cicadas, loud as a lawn mower, can generate 400 sound waves per second. But the EPA notes cicada burrows also help aerate lawns and improve ground water filtration

Long after the Brood X cicadas were gone, those small burrow holes they left behind were still having an impact on the soil. That’s according to a...

Long after the Brood X cicadas were gone, those small burrow holes they left behind were still having an impact on the soil.

Billions of cicada emergence holes increased the infiltration of water into soils, potentially affecting vegetation, groundwater.

Two cicada emergence tunnels remain submerged within the infiltrometer ring after a measurement of the soil’s infiltration rate. Credit: Ellen Bergan