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17-Year Cicadas and Tree Damage: University of Michigan Botanical Gardens Expert on What to Expect From Brood X Bugs
May 05, 2021
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 5 -- The University of Michigan issued the following Q&A on May 3, 2021, with Tom O'Dell, collections and natural areas specialist at Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum:

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Noisy Brood X periodical cicadas will soon emerge in parts of southeastern Michigan and in a handful of other states in the eastern half of the country, after developing underground for 17 years.

Cicadas do not bite and are harmless to h . . .

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