A Georgia biologist is asking for help from the public in studying the gigantic 17-year cicada brood that will start emerging soon up and down the East Coast, including in North Georgia.
While Georgia has plenty of annual cicadas that appear every summer and rattle away from the treetops, Evan Lampert, a biology professor at the University of North Georgia, says the periodical cicadas, the ones that emerge every 13 or 17 years, are something special.
“Really spectacular,” he says. “Hopefully, North Georgia is in for a lot of excitement and a lot of noise.”
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