Brood awakening: Cicadas emerging across D.C. area.
These are the early bloomers. A more massive, widespread swarm still awaits.
'Despite chilly weather, cicadas have begun to emerge in considerable numbers throughout the Washington region. This marks the beginning of the much-anticipated Brood X cicada outburst, a once-every-17-years event.
On Capital Weather Gang’s Twitter feed, we’ve received dozens of reports of the insects in Northern Virginia, Maryland and the District.
Monday morning brought a sudden increase in sightings after only isolated reports of early cicadas in the past one to two weeks. The emergence was somewhat unexpected given the cooler-than-normal temperatures since Friday.
Despite the surge of reports, the insects haven’t crawled out of their holes everywhere, and a more massive swarm still awaits.
“My opinion is that these emergences are still localized and spotty, in small numbers, and not widespread — at least in what I was able to observe,” Daniel Gruner, a professor in University of Maryland’s entomology department, wrote in an email Monday. “All of the sites I am monitoring have no emergence, the instances we saw were localized to single yards, with just a handful of individuals. The adults have been hard to find this morning.”'>>>
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... their numbers will surely be huge around here soon, as usual.
