The Arthro-Pod crew is super excited about the emergence of the periodical cicadas known as Brood X this year! To celebrate Jody created a quiz competition for Mike and Jonathan to face off through! The questions can be found on Kahoot if you would like to give it a shot! Just look for the Periodical Cicada Quiz with 26 questions. Tune in to learn about the cicadas coming out this year and get excited to go find them! The cicadas are here! Photo by Daniel Herms, The Ohio State University, Bugwood.org  Show notes Periodical Cicadas the Brood X Edition by Gene Kritsky Check out this Scientific American article that talks about the important contributions of Margaretta Hare Morris to our understanding of cicadas The University of Connecticut houses a lot of great info on the distribution of cicadas o   https://cicadas.uconn.edu/broods/  Cicada Mania is a resource everyone should check out if they are interested in these awesome creatures. In particular look at their pages on cicada biology/natural history and discussions on the broods o   https://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/how-many-kinds-of-cicadas-are-there/ Finally, please consider downloading and using the Cicada Safari app if you get to go out and look for these screaming teenage bugs!Questions? Comments? Follow the show on Twitter @Arthro_PodshowFollow the hosts on Twitter @bugmanjon, @JodyBugsmeUNL, and @MSkvarla36Get the show through Apple Podcasts!Subscribe to our feed on Feedburner!   We're also on Stitcher! This episode is freely available on archive.org and is licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Beginning/ending theme: "There It Is" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0