brood
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The Northern Illinois Brood, which appears every 17 years in the Midwest, is expected to appear in the next month, as temperatures there warm.
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2024
Weren’t we just hearing about a cicada-geddon a few years ago, when Brood X flooded headlines in 2021?
From Slate • Apr. 14, 2024
The largest geographic brood in the nation — called Brood XIX and coming out every 13 years — is about to march through the Southeast, having already created countless boreholes in the red Georgia clay.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2024
Researchers collected their data at two study sites in the Mid-Atlantic portion of the Brood X range in the United States.
From Science Daily • Oct. 19, 2023
Brood sows will, if kept in an ordinarily thrifty condition, farrow two litters of pigs in the year, which will number from eight to twelve pigs to the litter.
From Australia, The Dairy Country by Australia. Dept. of External Affairs
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