World's 'second loudest bug' to call St. Louis home this spring
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Millions of cicadas will emerge
Millions of cicadas will emerge for tree roots across St. Louis and the Midwest at large this spring, and experts at the Missouri Botanical Garden can barely contain their excitement.
"This is an incredibly exciting moment for entomologists and really anyone who appreciates biology and nature," said Senior Entomologist Tad Yankoski with the garden's butterfly house. "You will see them everywhere."
A periodical cicada brood will emerge in St. Louis and most of Missouri this year for the first time in 13 years. There isn't an exact time for when the emergence will happen, but they're expected to crawl out once soil temperatures hit the mid-60s. Cooler weather will delay them, but inevitably warm weather will bring them out.
"The periodical cicadas we are going to get this year are a little bit smaller, they're orange and black and there will be billions of them and combined they will be very loud and very hard to miss," Yankoski said.
Excitement has been bursting at the seams in Nicole Pruess, the butterfly house's invertebrate keeper, for years. She traveled to Ohio for its periodical cicada reemergence in 2021 for both research and pleasure.
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"This is an incredibly exciting moment for entomologists and really anyone who appreciates biology and nature," said Senior Entomologist Tad Yankoski with the garden's butterfly house. "You will see them everywhere."
A periodical cicada brood will emerge in St. Louis and most of Missouri this year for the first time in 13 years. There isn't an exact time for when the emergence will happen, but they're expected to crawl out once soil temperatures hit the mid-60s. Cooler weather will delay them, but inevitably warm weather will bring them out.
"The periodical cicadas we are going to get this year are a little bit smaller, they're orange and black and there will be billions of them and combined they will be very loud and very hard to miss," Yankoski said.
Excitement has been bursting at the seams in Nicole Pruess, the butterfly house's invertebrate keeper, for years. She traveled to Ohio for its periodical cicada reemergence in 2021 for both research and pleasure.
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