{"id":3932,"date":"2013-06-15T05:13:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T12:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2013-06-23T20:52:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T03:52:07","slug":"oklahoma-surprise-periodical-cicada-emergence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/oklahoma-surprise-periodical-cicada-emergence\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma surprise periodical cicada emergence!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Periodical cicadas (Magicicada) are emerging in and around the Oklahoma City area, unexpectedly!<\/p>\n

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June 15th:<\/p>\n

The Facebook page for this event posted<\/a> that there are Oklahoma State University records of going back to 1996, 1979, 1962, and 1928, showing a 17 year pattern. There’s also some confusion between this “micro brood” [a term I’m using because I like beer] and Brood IV, because the Oklahoma M. cassini have orange stripes like an M. septendecula, and you can only tell them apart by their DNA (and their song, of course). <\/p>\n

Cicadas @ UCONN had a Facebook update as well<\/a>. <\/p>\n

June 13th:<\/p>\n

Chris Simon<\/a> says they “think that this might be an undiscovered brood that just happens to coincide with Brood II.”<\/p>\n

Gene Kristsky<\/a> found a page that mentioned Brood II in OK<\/a>, and Chris Simon pointed out that the cicadas fill a gap in Brood IV<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Thanks to T. Wilken for posting this image<\/a>. it is a male M. cassini. <\/p>\n

I checked the document Drew, W. A., F. L. Spangler and D. Molnar. 1974. Oklahoma Cicadidae (Homoptera). Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science. Stillwater. 54: 90-7.<\/em> No specific mention of Oklahoma county.<\/p>\n

Original post:<\/p>\n

There is an Oklahoma 17 Year Cicada Early Emergence Facebook page<\/a>. (They might be 13 year cicadas, BTW).<\/p>\n

If you are in Oklahoma please visit Cicadas @ UCONN and report your sighting<\/a>! View the sightings on the map<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Random conjecture:<\/p>\n