{"id":4308,"date":"2014-06-19T00:26:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T07:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=4308"},"modified":"2026-09-26T21:11:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T04:11:01","slug":"brood-xxii-the-baton-rouge-brood-will-arrive-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/brood-xxii-the-baton-rouge-brood-will-arrive-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Brood XXII, the Baton Rouge Brood, will arrive in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Magicicada Brood XXII, the Baton Rouge Brood, will emerge in Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, and Kentucky in the spring of 2027.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Get Ready!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_3962.jpg\" alt=\"Teneral Magicicada\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_3962.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_3962-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_3962-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_3962-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some Brood XXII facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brood XXII has a 13-year life cycle. <\/li>\n<li>Species: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/magicicada-tredecim-walsh-and-riley-1868\/\">Magicicada tredecim<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/magicicada-tredecassini-alexander-and-moore-1962\/\">Magicicada tredecassini<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/magicicada-tredecula-alexander-and-moore-1962\/\">Magicicada tredecula<\/a><\/li>\n<li>This Brood last emerged in 2014<\/li>\n<li>UCONN\/John Cooley has <a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/56aead88dcbd4e388bdbddb2ddb50557#ref-n-z7G6Jt\">an updated map<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>We received reports from Baton Rouge, LA, Houma, LA, Pride, LA, Weyanoke, LA, Vicksburg, MS and Natchez, MS in 2001<\/li>\n<li>A lot of folks ask if they will appear in Orleans parish, but there is no evidence for that. However, there is no reason why you couldn&#8217;t start looking there, have some gumbo and fancy drinks, and then head north towards Baton Rouge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>According to the Cicada Central Magicicada Database (RIP):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The following parishes in <strong>Louisiana<\/strong> will surely experience the Brood XXII emergence: Catahoula, <strong>East Baton Rouge<\/strong>, <strong>East Feliciana<\/strong>, West Feliciana. There are also literature records (typically older, and not substantiated by recent evidence) that the cicadas will appear in La Salle, <strong>Livingston<\/strong>, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, and Washington parishes.<\/li>\n<li>In <strong>Mississippi<\/strong>, Brood XXII should emerge in Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Hinds, Jefferson, <strong>Warren<\/strong> and <strong>Wilkinson<\/strong> counties, with literature records for Franklin county.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>1907 Map from Marlatt, C.L.. 1907. (The periodical cicada. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology)<\/h2>\n<p>I added the blue rectangle to show where these cicadas are in Ohio and Kentucky. See <a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/56aead88dcbd4e388bdbddb2ddb50557\">a modern map on the UCONN website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Marlatt-1907-22-Brood-XXII.EDITEDwebp.webp\" alt=\"MARLATT PLUS\" width=\"800\" height=\"663\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Marlatt-1907-22-Brood-XXII.EDITEDwebp.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Marlatt-1907-22-Brood-XXII.EDITEDwebp-300x249.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Marlatt-1907-22-Brood-XXII.EDITEDwebp-768x636.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes from 2026:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Update (6\/12\/2026):<\/strong> Brood XXII stragglers appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/observations?d1=2026-04-01&#038;nelat=30.719458&#038;nelng=-90.84418099999999&#038;subview=map&#038;swlat=30.312469&#038;swlng=-91.316565&#038;taxon_id=83854\">the Baton Rouge area<\/a> in 2026. This is a good sign for the 2027 emergence. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Notes from 2014:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Update June 19:<\/strong> <a href=\"\/cicadas\/got-flagging-2\/\">Signs of flagging<\/a> from cicada egg laying are showing up. <\/li>\n<li>Update (5\/23): with folks reporting in from both Louisiana and Mississippi, it&#8217;s fair to say the emergence is in full swing. Go out and enjoy them while they&#8217;re still around. <\/li>\n<li>Update (5\/13): we&#8217;ve heard the first report that the cicadas have started singing! In Denham Springs, at least. <\/li>\n<li>Update (5\/5): the first confirmed Magicicada exuvia (shells\/skins) have been found, as reported by Dave Marshall. It&#8217;s been a slow start thanks to a cold spring and cool soil temperatures.<\/li>\n<li>Update (4\/26): the first sightings have appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/cicadas.uconn.edu\/media\/\">Cicadas @ UCONN (formerly Magicicada.org)<\/a>. If you see (or heard) one of these cicadas, report it. And then share it via Twitter, YouTube, Flickr or Facebook so we can all check it out. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>More Brood XXII Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/photos-of-brood-xxii-in-ohio-and-kentucky-by-roy-troutman\/\">Photos of Brood XXII in Ohio and Kentucky by Roy Troutman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/brood-xxiii-photos-from-2015-part-1\/\">Brood XXIII photos from 2015, part 1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/brood-xxiii-photos-from-2015-part-2\/\">Brood XXIII photos from 2015, part 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/new-paper-about-brood-xxii-magicicadas\/\">New paper about Brood XXII Magicicadas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/cicada-beer\/\">Cicada Beer and Brood XXII<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magicicada Brood XXII, the Baton Rouge Brood, will emerge in Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, and Kentucky in the spring of 2027. Get Ready! Some Brood XXII facts: Brood XXII has a 13-year life cycle. Species: Magicicada tredecim, Magicicada tredecassini, and Magicicada tredecula This Brood last emerged in 2014 UCONN\/John Cooley has an updated map. We received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,2,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brood-xxii","category-magicicada","category-periodical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}