{"id":478,"date":"2008-06-10T20:26:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T03:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/2008\/06\/10\/so-when-will-they-be-gone\/"},"modified":"2018-09-05T20:20:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T03:20:13","slug":"so-when-will-they-be-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/so-when-will-they-be-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"So when will they be gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big question right now is: &#8220;<strong>when will the cicadas be gone<\/strong>?&#8221; Alas, for some, their charm has dwindled. <\/p>\n<p>Based on my experience maintaining this site over the past 12 years, emergences tend to last about 6 or 8 weeks from the emergence of the first adult until the last cicada dies. That timespan is for the entire emergence, covering all locations in every affected state. The emergence <strong>for you<\/strong> in your specific location should last around 4 weeks: 1 week to emerge, 2 weeks of singing and mating, 1 week of egg laying and dying. Most cicadas don&#8217;t follow that precise game plan, but that&#8217;s the basic idea: 4 weeks. Cicadas that emerged on June 1st, should be gone before the 4th of July.  <\/p>\n<p>BTW, based on the number of messages and emails I&#8217;ve received, Brood XIV appears to be a bigger event than Brood XIII. Brood XIII received more press (because it overlapped Chicago), but from my vantage point, Brood XIV is turning out to be the more exciting emergence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big question right now is: &#8220;when will the cicadas be gone?&#8221; Alas, for some, their charm has dwindled. Based on my experience maintaining this site over the past 12 years, emergences tend to last about 6 or 8 weeks from the emergence of the first adult until the last cicada dies. That timespan is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brood-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","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=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}