Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University’s next Science on Tap event will feature Dr. Donald Sudbrink, chair of the APSU Department of Agriculture and a professor of plant sciences and pest management on Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 starting at 5:30pm at Strawberry Alley Ale Works in Downtown Clarksville.
Sudbrink’s presentation, “The Cicadas Are Coming! The Cicadas Are Coming!: To Dinner?” is timely given the convergence of 13-year cicadas and 17-year cicadas emerging, albeit not significantly overlapping, in northern Illinois. A co-emergence involving adjacent broods of different life cycles happens only roughly every 221 years.
The 2024 emergence is especially significant because it marks the first time adjacent 13- and 17-year broods will co-emerge since 1803, as well as the first time they have emerged in the same year since 1998. Sudbrink will explain this phenomenon’s significance, history and the impact it could have on your summer plans.
Plus, attendees will have an opportunity to win one of Dr. Sudbrink’s favorite insect books.
About Austin Peay State University’s Science on Tap
Science on Tap is a monthly event that brings together science and local brews. Austin Peay State University’s College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics hosts Science on Tap on the first Tuesday of every month during the academic year; doors open at 5:00pm and the event begins promptly at 5:30pm.
