READ ON THE FOX NEWS APPFor the first time in 221 years, two broods of cicadas will emerge simultaneously across North America — overlapping in two states. This year will see a "simultaneous explosion" of cicadas across North America, Hannah Fry, a British mathematician and science presenter, said in a video posted to her Instagram page. If the total combined area of a periodical cicada emergence is roughly the size of Delaware," Uconn wrote in its online article titled, "The 2024 Periodical Cicada Emergence." University of Illinois entomologist May Berenbaum told the AP that some people "dread the cicada emergence." Original article source: Rare 'simultaneous explosion' of cicadas expected for first time in 221 years

Source: Fox News January 24, 2024 06:11 UTC