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Originally Posted by iheartthed
The first time I ever heard of cicadas was in the summer of 1990. The year 2024 will be 34 years after 1990, or 2 17 year cycles, so this must be the same one.
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Yep, 1990 was the last Brood XIII emergence that I vividly remember. I was a kid growing up in the leafy old-growth-tree burbs of the north shore and the cicadas were RIDICULOUS up there. I have the distinct memory of my dad using a snow shovel to clear the cicada carcasses off of our sidewalks.
When they returned in 2007, I was living downtown in River North, and there weren't many cicadas around in that world of pavement and buildings, so I more or less missed out on it.
Now that we're in a very leafy northside neighborhood, I'll be interested to see what the emergence is like around here in 2024.