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Arm yourself with the 10 most essential fun facts as cicadas prepare to take the Midwest and part of the U.S. south by storm.

Arm yourself with the 10 most essential fun facts as cicadas prepare to take the Midwest and part of the U.S. south by storm.

Scientists have been mapping cicadas for over a century. Now the public can help track the emergence of Brood X thanks to an app called Cicada Safari.

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...

UpdatedFri, Apr 16, 2021 at 8:34 am ET Reply Billions of 17-year periodical cicadas will emerge later this spring in parts of 15 Eastern and Midwest states, including Pennsylvania. Researchers want citizen scientists to use the Cicada Safari app and help with data collection. (Scott Olson/Getty Images, File) PENNSYLVANIA — Residents in several Pennsylvania counties have a chance to be a part of an ecological phenomenon that only occurs once every 17 years. An unprecedented citizen science effort gas launched nationwide, as parts of 15 states will see billions of Brood X 17-year cicadas e...