Expect a pretty quiet summer in Iowa, at least as far as cicadas are concerned.
Some of the big, loud bugs will emerge, as they do every year. But there will be no large broods to cause a noisy infestation here.
Other parts of the country won t be so lucky. With one of the biggest broods of periodical cicadas, the Great Eastern Brood (Brood X), emerging after 17 years underground, billions of the bugs will fill skies and cover trees in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio, and eastern Tennessee, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
While Brood X awakens, the main colony of cicadas that takes over Iowa every 17 years remains asleep.
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Reflection Riding Announces Free, Outdoor Community Event: City Nature Challenge 2021 Monday, April 26, 2021
Matt Guenther using the iNaturalist app identifying a hemlock
Join Reflection Riding Arboretum & Nature Center for the City Nature Challenge on Friday and Saturday for two full days of outdoor fun. The full schedule of events includes night hikes, guided walks, volunteer projects, a campfire concert and more. A full listing of events is below.
Events and activities are first-come, first-served, there is no need to sign up to participate and all programming will take place outdoors. Events and activities are donations-based, meaning that Reflection Riding asks that the public make a donation at a level comfortable for them, or become a member, rather than pay a set fee to join in the fun.
Indianapolis Star
INDIANAPOLIS – During the last emergence of Brood X cicadas in 2004, biology professor Martin Edwards and his students strapped up their hiking boots and ventured into the trees carrying big, fat Garmin GPS units and old-fashioned paper maps with pencils and notebooks.
If they saw the red-eyed bugs or heard the cicadas distinctive buzzing, they would jot down their coordinates with pencil and paper. So it would come as no surprise that the maps were incomplete, said Edwards with Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania.
But with tens of millions of Brood X cicadas set to reemerge this year, 17 years later, there will be something a little different: Everyday citizens can take part in recording this event in history.