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"  Now that you&amp;#039;ve gotten schooled with everything you need to know about cicadas, it&amp;#039;s time to track these buzzing bugs. Radiolab, the mind-expanding show from WNYC public radio, organized a Cicada Tracker this spring to predict the emergence of Brood II up and down the East Coast this summer and gather data about the extent of this horny horde of insects. The best way to predict the appearance of cicadas is to track the temperature underground\u2014when the soil 8 inches deep reaches 64 degrees Fahrenheit, they emerge. So Radiolab provided instructions to build a thermometer from an Arduino unit. On the project website you can see the readings from dozens of detectors in different states, as well as places where cicada sightings have been confirmed. Now that cicadas are showing up across the Eastern Seaboard, the prediction part of the project is winding down. The next goal: Trying to get a handle on just how many of these creatures show up this year, and where, so the Cicada Tracker has a link you can use to report cicada sightings. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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