Last summer, I had the privilege of witnessing one of nature’s greatest spectacles; the emergence of a brood of periodic cicadas. However, this particular event was special, once in a lifetime even; a double brood event, meaning that two cicada broods emerge simultaneously. For this, I made a special expedition to the wilds of Springfield, Illinois due to the fact that it was an area where the two cicada broods overlap.(1) Today, let’s explore what makes these insects so fascinating.
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