{"id":4417,"date":"2014-06-18T01:03:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T08:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=4417"},"modified":"2026-09-27T08:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:09:00","slug":"brood-iii-the-iowan-brood-will-emerge-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/brood-iii-the-iowan-brood-will-emerge-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Brood III, The Iowan Brood, Will Emerge in 2031"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Magicicada Brood III (3), the Iowan Brood, will next emerge in 2031 in Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri.<\/strong> Some 4-year stragglers will emerge in the spring of 2031.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some Brood III facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brood III Magicicadas have a 17-year life cycle.<\/li>\n<li>The last time Brood III emerged was 2014 and before that, 1997.<\/li>\n<li>All three 17-year species will emerge: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/magicicada-septendecim-linnaeus-1758-aka-linnaeuss-17-year-cicada\/\">Magicicada septendecim<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/magicicada-cassinii-fisher-1852-aka-cassini-17-year-cicada\/\">Magicicada cassini<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/magicicada-septendecula-alexander-and-moore-1962\/\">Magicicada septendecula<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>UCONN\/John Cooley has <a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/56aead88dcbd4e388bdbddb2ddb50557#ref-n-RUpeGq\">an updated Brood III map<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>According to the Cicada Central Magicicada Database(RIP):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul id=\"counties\">\n<li>Iowa will likely experience Brood III in Appanoose, <strong>Boone<\/strong>, <em>Decatur<\/em>, <strong>Des Moines<\/strong>, Hamilton, <strong>Henry<\/strong>, Lee, Louisa, Lucas, <strong>Mahaska<\/strong>, <strong>Van Buren<\/strong>, Washington counties.<\/li>\n<li>There are literature records (typically older, and not substantiated by recent evidence) that the cicadas will also emerge in the counties: Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Cedar, Davis, Greene, <strong>Guthrie<\/strong>, Iowa, Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Keokuk, <strong>Madison<\/strong>, Marion, Marshall, <strong>Monroe<\/strong>, Muscatine, <strong>Polk<\/strong>, <strong>Poweshiek<\/strong>, Ringgold, Story, Taylor, <strong>Union<\/strong>, <strong>Wapello<\/strong>, <strong>Warren<\/strong>, Wayne and Webster.<\/li>\n<li>Plus reports from <strong>Clarke<\/strong>, <strong>Dallas<\/strong> County!<\/li>\n<li>Missouri literature records: Adair, Harrison, Harrison, Henry, Johnson, Lewis, Macon, Marion, Platte, Putnam,Vernon<\/li>\n<li>Illinois: Adams, Brown, Cass, <strong>Fulton<\/strong>, Hancock, Henderson, Knox, McDonough, Peoria, Pike, <strong>Schuyler<\/strong>, Warren, and maybe (literature records) Champaign, Greene, and Mason.<\/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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Marlatt-1907-03-Brood-III.jpg\" alt=\"Marlatt 1907 03 Brood III\" width=\"800\" height=\"651\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Marlatt-1907-03-Brood-III.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Marlatt-1907-03-Brood-III-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Marlatt-1907-03-Brood-III-768x625.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Notes from 2014<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Update for 6\/18\/2014<\/strong>: It has been great to see so many people are enjoying the emergence. I bolded the names of <a href=\"#counties\">the counties below<\/a>, where people have reported emergences in the comments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update for 5\/31\/2014<\/strong>: Cicadas have been reported in Dallas, Union, and Warren counties in Iowa, and Mercer County in Missouri.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update for 5\/30\/2014<\/strong>: Greg Holmes reported on the Entomological-Cicadidae Yahoo Group that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ent.iastate.edu\/dept\/faculty\/lewisd.html\">Donald Lewis<\/a>, entomologist at Iowa State University, has a report of periodical cicadas from north of Burlington, IA. With air temperatures in the mid 80s for the next 6 days, the soil should be warm enough to coax more cicadas from the ground. Rain may slow the emergence, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magicicada Brood III (3), the Iowan Brood, will next emerge in 2031 in Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri. Some 4-year stragglers will emerge in the spring of 2031. Some Brood III facts: Brood III Magicicadas have a 17-year life cycle. The last time Brood III emerged was 2014 and before that, 1997. All three 17-year species [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,2,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brood-iii","category-magicicada","category-periodical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417","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=4417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}