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Article: No Brood X, but buggy enough here, anyway.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- May 26, 2004
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Byline: Karen Youso; Staff Writer
You might have read that this is the year of the cicada - the ominous Brood X coming to life after 17 years underground. Billions of them are emerging from the ground, crawling about, falling from trees, crunching underfoot and generally driving people crazy.
But not here.
"We don't have that problem," said Jeff Hahn, an entomologist at the University of Minnesota's Extension Service.
If you want the Brood X experience, you'll have to travel to Indiana or other points east and south. (You can find a map at http://www.extension.umn.edu. Click on "Yard and Garden," then click on "e-journal.")
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