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Objects of the Week Archive

Object of the Week for May 23

Cicadas: The Treetop Opera

Brood X ("ten") emerges this spring in the Mid Atlantic and Midwest. These pinned specimens at the National Entomological Collection include cicadas from the 1880s to present-day. Five periodical cicadas rest in the middle row.

Cicada Song at Smithsonian Folklife Festival