Operating on a 17-year cycle, Brood II last made an appearance in 1996, and before that in 1979.

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This year marks the return of Brood II, known among some scientists as the East Coast Brood, which is concentrated between Connecticut and Northern Virginia.

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Let's hope that this bird will manage to produce a healthy brood of chicks this year.

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By contrast, he found from 50 to 300 spores in each cicada female from another brood that emerged on time that year in North Carolina.

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Among the brood is Chauncey, a 3-year-old komondor.

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Brood X, it seems, is splitting up, and a new 13-year cicada population is evolving.

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In 2000, he recorded thousands of Brood X members emerging four years early in other words, shifting to a 13-year cycle that Massospora is not equipped to match.

ECONOMIST: The 17-year cicadas are about to emerge in force