2024 Cicada Swarm Intelligence

2024 Cicada Swarm Intelligence. By katie hunt, henrik pettersson, tiffany baker, marco chacón, annette choi, rachel ramirez and lou robinson, cnn. And then you’ll hear their mating.

There are two groups of periodical cicadas — those that emerge every 13 years and those that emerge every 17 years.  — using a free app called cicada safari, more than 150,000 people so far have uploaded geotagged photos of cicadas, helping scientists track their emergence after 13 to 17.