Thanks to Emily for sending from Lamond Riggs: “I found a freshly-emerged periodical cicada in the yard last night. Imagine waiting almost two decades for the orgy, only to oversleep and show up a year late. Poor lonely little guy!”
The Post reported last week:
“Gene Kritsky calls them “stragglers.”
Kritsky is a biologist and the dean of the School of Behavioral and Natural Sciences at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati. He’s also the creator of the Cicada Safari app. More than half a million photos were uploaded by citizen scientists to the app during the 2021 emergence of Brood X. So far this spring, Kritsky has had straggler cicada sightings from 11 states.”