Greater Cincinnati's Brood X cicadas are very popular.
Apparently, people are taking "cicada-cations" to see the emergence of the 17-year periodical cicadas, according to a Washington Post article.
The Washington Post talked to Jessie Fullenkamp, a Detroit resident who planned to come back to Cincinnati — where she lived in college — to see the cicadas emerge once again.
“One billion cicadas,” she told the Washington Post. “That only happens every 17 years, and I can’t miss it.”
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Brood X is one of the largest and most broadly distributed groups of periodical cicadas.
They can be found from northern Georgia to New York, west to the Mississippi River and in the Midwest. There can be as many as 1.5 million cicadas per acre, which brings the brood population into the trillions.
They're a sight to behold - and hear.
Fullenkamp won't be the only one traveling to see the emergence.
Fremont Ohio Police Department officer and bug fanatic Lester Daniels told the Fremont News-Messenger in March that he planned to travel to see the cicadas, which aren't typically seen in Sandusky County.
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Now what? Now that the Brood X cicadas have emerged, when will they be gone?
In Northern Ohio, people have to travel to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to see the bugs or head south.
Daniels told the News-Messenger that he was last in the Ann Arbor area 17 years ago to see the brood. He told the paper he planned to hit hotspots in Kentucky and Indiana this summer.
To see the cicadas in Ohio, travel to Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati, where Daniels considers "ground zero" for Ohio's brood is located at Spring Grove Cemetery.
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