"LOCUSTS" WILL RETURN TO PARTS OF STATE - Officially Known As Cicadas

(03/12/2004)

Here come the cicadas, known to many as locusts, one more time. Periodical cicadas, a species of the grasshopper-like insects, known for their scratching, screeching "singing" of the males, will emerge in many areas of West Virginia this May. This bunch is known as "Brood Ten" and covers areas from New York to Georgia. They will fill forests in all or part of more than a dozen states. Abruptly as they arrive, they'll be gone, back underground for another 17 years. There are at least 13 broods of 17-year cicadas, plus another five broods that emerge every 13 years. The last brood to emerge, known as "Brood Nine," was seen last spring in parts of West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina. Two years ago, "Brood Eight" emerged in parts of western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia. This brood was well-identified in the central West Virginia area.

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