Seventeen years later, Brood XIV cicadas emerge in US; UK scientists fear insect loss as car bug splats fall

Seventeen years later, Brood XIV cicadas emerge in US; UK scientists fear insect loss as car bug splats fall

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Washington (AFP) May 1, 2025

The last time these thrumming, red-eyed bugs burrowed out of the ground across America's suburbs and woodlands was the early summer of 2008. Global financial jitters were mounting, iPhones were a luxury item, and George W. Bush was still president. Now, reports from the citizen-science app Cicada Safari show the first insects of Brood XIV - which emerges every 17 years - surfacing in t

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