With smartphones, anyone can help track Brood X — and maybe unlock cicada mysteries
With smartphones, anyone can help track Brood X — and maybe unlock cicada mysteries Meryl Kornfield © Kevin Ambrose/FTWP Introducing a 2021 Brood X cicada. This cicada molted Wednesday in Oakton, Va. (Kevin Ambrose) For amateur cicada mapper Kathleen Quinn-Farber, the summer of 2013 now feels “prehistoric.” Toting a spiral-bound notebook through hot Pennsylvania fields, Quinn-Farber — along with fellow surveyors, her then 11-year-old son and 6-year-old granddaughter — scribbled down where they spotted cicadas only to go home to manually enter on a desktop com...
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