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Published on: 6/11/2007
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And if you haven't found any at your home yet, entomologist Dr. Dave Severson says, you probably won't find any at all!
"You certainly aren't going to see any large numbers," he said.
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Dr. Severson says it was a little bit later than they were expected to.Combine that with large amounts of new development across the area over the last 17 years that likely killed high numbers of cicadas before they ever got a chance to emerge, and Dr. Severson says that could explain why Michiana hasn't seen larger clusters of cicadas.
"We were really on the northern edge of where this brood 13 hatch would be expected to come out," he told WSBT.
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Dr. Severson still expects the total number of cicadas in Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan to reach into the billions, but not to break into the trillions as some scientists first predicted.
All the cicadas that have emerged now should all be gone by early July.