The cicadas are out in full force in one particular part of Massachusetts. The periodical insects known as Brood XIV are emerging on Cape Cod after 17 years underground.
Jennifer Forman Orth, the environmental biologist for the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources, is tracking and mapping cicada sightings.
“The emergence is mostly concentrated on the Upper Cape, so the towns of Bourne, Falmouth, Mashpee, Sandwich, and the western part of Barnstable,” Orth told WBZ-TV. “There was also a sighting up in Cohasset – people thought maybe the cicada hitchhiked on someone’s vehicle, but there are records there from the last Brood XIV emergence in the early 2000s.”
The cicada noise
Orth just returned from a trip to Cape Cod to see the cicadas for herself. She reports that there were “thousands upon thousands” in the Frances Crane Wildlife Management Area in East Falmouth…