Greater Cincinnati s Brood X cicadas are very popular.
Apparently, people are taking cicada-cations to see the emergence of the 17-year periodical cicadas, according to a Washington Post article.
The Washington Post talked to Jessie Fullenkamp, a Detroit resident who planned to come back to Cincinnati where she lived in college to see the cicadas emerge once again.
“One billion cicadas,” she told the Washington Post. “That only happens every 17 years, and I can’t miss it.”
Brood X is one of the largest and most broadly distributed groups of periodical cicadas.
They can be found from northern Georgia to New York, west to the Mississippi River and in the Midwest. There can be as many as 1.5 million cicadas per acre, which brings the brood population into the trillions.
Navy veteran Peter Kenyon will be the the grand marshal for Darien’s upcoming Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 31, and Sharad Samy will be the keynote speaker at the ceremony after the parade, the Monuments and Ceremonies Commission announced.
The Memorial Day ceremony at the Veterans Cemetery in Spring Grove Cemetery is scheduled to take place at 11:30 a.m.
Parade Marshal: Peter Kenyon
From the announcement about the parade marshal:
Commander Peter Kenyon served on active duty in the Pacific from 1963 to 1966, aboard USS Bausell (destroyer DD-845.) While attached to the 7th Fleet they engaged in plane guard duty, naval gunfire support (shore bombardment), Search and Rescue operations, amphibious task force escort duty, Formosa Patrol, and Anit Submarine patrols.