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First Brood X Cicadas Spotted In North Georgia
The season's first Brood X cicadas have been sighted in north Georgia. There will be a lot of them. They will be loud. You've been warned.
GEORGIA — Cover your ears — the first of this year’s feared bumper crop of periodical cicadas have finally arrived. WSB-TV in Atlanta reported Wednesday that a viewer in Dahlonega sent pictures to the station of Brood X cicadas hatching.
Those cicadas are the initial wave of a brood that hatches every 17 years and is expected to blanket north Georgia. The Atlanta news station reported that Fannin, Gilmer and Union counties in the state’s northwest corner could see as many as 1.5 million Brood X cicadas per acre.
And the male cicadas' mating calls are extraordinarily loud. How loud? Try 100 decibels — as noisy as a Harley-Davidson motorcycle or just about any lawn mower.
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Warm weather and wet ground flushes them out, with billions of the little flying hellions expected to be heard some time in May. You’ve been warned.
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