{"id":21147,"date":"2025-05-16T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=21147"},"modified":"2025-05-21T20:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T03:21:37","slug":"magicicada-stragglers-everywhere-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/magicicada-stragglers-everywhere-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Magicicada stragglers everywhere in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Magicicada periodical cicadas often emerge earlier or later than expected. This phenomenon is called straggling<\/a>, and the individual cicadas that emerged earlier or later are called stragglers. Magicicada are presumed to straggle for a number of reasons including subterranean overcrowding and the effects of urban heat islands on subterranean environments (a recent phenomenon). Evolutionarily speaking, it is a mechanism that allows them to break away from their original brood and form a new one. Right now on the homepage of the UCONN Cicada site<\/a> they have a good story about how Brood XIV connects to Brood X, which connects to VI, which connects to II. <\/p>\n

Stragglers, in the past, were observed and documented (MORRIS,J. G. 1870. Seventeen-year locust two years too late. Amer. Ent., 2: 304.) but it is much easier to do so today thanks to apps like iNaturalist, Cicada Safari<\/a>, and mobile phones and social media in general. <\/p>\n

So, where are we observing stragglers in 2025?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Down in the Baton Rouge area of Louisiana, Brood XXII<\/a><\/strong> is emerging 2 years early (iNaturalist Map<\/a>). Brood XXII typically has a 13-year lifecycle. <\/p>\n

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There are many Brood X<\/a> stragglers<\/strong> emerging in the Washington D.C. area (iNaturalist Map<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Brood I<\/a> stragglers are appearing in the Roanoke, Virginia area<\/strong> emerging four years early. (iNaturalist map<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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There are a handful of Brood X stragglers in the Princeton, NJ area.<\/strong> (iNaturalist Map<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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And there are definitely more…<\/p>\n

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If you want to look for stragglers, online, you can use iNaturalist<\/a> or the Cicada Safari app<\/a>. Here is a map<\/a> with all the Cicada Safari sightings on it.<\/p>\n

And here’s a map that plots all the Broods, courtesy of Cicadas @ UCONN<\/a>:<\/p>\n