Brood X cicadas have already started emerging in parts of Maryland, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia according to cicadamania.com, a website dedicated to cicadas.

While you won’t be able to see or hear the emergence in Central New York this year, the U.S. Forest Service said this year’s cicadas will be emerging throughout large swaths of Pennsylvania and blanketing parts of 14 other states. With the help of thousands of citizen scientists across the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest and the mobile app Cicada Safari you will be able to watch a live map update with cicada sightings.

The Onondaga Nation shares the same excitement for 17-year cicadas as the rest of the United States, just on a different time schedule.

Scientists call our cicadas Brood VII, or the Onondaga Brood. That’s what emerged here in 2018. Brood VII’s size is in stark contrast to Brood X. Brood VII is the smallest periodical cicada brood in the U.S., and this year’s Brood X is the largest of the 12 broods of 17-year cicadas. As many as 1.5 million cicadas per acre are expected this summer.

The video above explains some of the most fascinating facts about cicadas:
• Are cicadas and locusts the same thing?
• What do cicadas eat?
• Can you eat cicadas? And when should you gather them?
• Do all cicadas sing?
• Do cicadas sting or bite?
• How many cicadas will emerge this summer?

Central New Yorkers won’t see the Onondaga Brood this year because they are not on the same emergence schedule as Brood X. Brood VII is shrinking, and scientists fear this brood will be the next periodical cicada to go extinct.

If nature and the environment cooperate, Brood VII will emerge in the farms and forests of the Onondaga Nation in 2035.

Video by Christa Lemczak | Syracuse.com
Music by bensound.com

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