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Millions of cicadas are coming to parts of the US. Here's how you can help track them.


Millions of cicadas are coming to parts of the US. Here s how you can help track them.
Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star
Here s what to know about the billions of cicadas Brood X that will soon be emerging
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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.  
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Cicadas emergence from 2006, courtesy of John Obermeyer, Purdue University, Entomology.
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.  ....

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