cicadas

Today’s Topic: Keep your ears open in Northwestern N.C. for the emergence of 17-year cicadas.

Today’s Topic: Keep your ears open in Northwestern N.C. for the emergence of 17-year cicadas.

Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler sits down each week with Southern Farm Network’s Mike Davis to discuss “Today’s Topic.” Folks in the Northwestern counties of Ashe, Alleghany, Forsyth, Stokes, Surry and Wilkes may soon hear the familiar sounds of 17-year cicadas emerging from underground. Emergence of these insects that were last seen in 2003 was expected […]

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Cicadas bring the noise!

You may have heard on the news recently that this year marks the emergence of a brood of 17-year cicadas across the East Coast — Brood II to be exact. And North Carolinians are already beginning to see these insects emerging. This year’s emergence is expected to be in the northern piedmont region. North Carolina […]

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