One of the lasting impacts of segregation is environmental injustice, and it impacts humans and cicadas alike. That brought about another migration of white flight, this time to the neighboring counties and keeping a form of segregation in place. The cicadas that came out 34 years ago emerged at the moment that the court-mandated IPS bus students to those outlying townships to resolve this segregation. Board of School Commissioners of Indianapolis for continuing to segregate their schools in practice, even as white flight moved families from IPS to the outlying townships, exacerbating the racial divide between districts. About three Brood X generations ago, the Justice Department sued Indianapolis Public Schools in the United States v. Board of Education ruled that school segregation is unconstitutional. This is only the fourth generation of Brood X cicadas in Indianapolis since the 1954 landmark U.S. But to those who know Indianapolis’ history, 38th Street is one of the most obvious dividing lines in our city, as one of our main historical lines of segregation. Why is 38th Street the boundary line for cicadas in our city? It may seem arbitrary. Students heard about them in the news, saw memes on Instagram and TikTok, and understandably, asked the question: “So why haven’t I seen or heard any?” As a science teacher working south of 38th Street, questions about cicadas came up a lot this year.