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Year in Review: Odd cicada history emerges

Brood II returns better understood

BIG BROOD  Cicadas such as this one in Virginia, from the Brood II group of the Magicicada genus, began to emerge in May after living underground for 17 years.

Tom Siegfried

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

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For a few weeks in 2013, a chorus of headlines about the raucous reproduction of periodical cicadas just about drowned out the real cicada news.