Researchers rolled out the Cicada Safari app in 2019, to try it out during some smaller brood emergences, and the results were promising. In 2020, app users submitted nearly 8,000 observations and helped capture both the expected emergence of Brood IX cicadas as well as off-cycle emergences of cicadas belonging to four other broods. (Image courtesy of Gene Kritsky, Ph.D., Mount St. Joseph University)