Parts of Georgia bracing for another wave of cicadas this spring
SNELLVILLE, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Parts of Georgia could soon see a familiar sight: large amounts of cicadas covering the ground and trees.
A year after more than a trillion periodical cicadas emerged across the Midwest and Southeast, another brood, Brood XIV, is expected to emerge at the end of April and into May.
The brood is concentrated in northern Georgia, so we shouldn’t see an abnormal amount in the CSRA. But there are always some outliers.
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Sonya Harrison runs My Secret Garden, a flower shop in Snellville. A lifelong gardener, she’s intimately familiar with bugs and their effects on plant life.
“Unfortunately, if you have plants, you have to worry about bugs,” she said.
As far as bugs go, Harrison said cicadas aren’t really a problem, even though they’re related to aphids and other plant pests.
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“They do tend to like the hardwoods, the magnolias, the maples,” Harrison said.
Flowers and plant life are safe, but the bugs make a big mess, although Brood XIV is expected to be less noisy than the double emergence of 2024.
Cicadas usually emerge for about four to six weeks. Where in the U.S. the emergence takes place plays a role in when they emerge. In Georgia, this typically occurs from late April to May.
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“They actually don’t hatch until the ground reaches 64 degrees,” Harrison said. “That’s gonna be at the end of this month.”
Brood XIV won’t have the same coverage as the 2024 broods and might not emerge further south than the Georgia mountains. But it could be the last brood Georgia sees until 2037.
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