Billions of cicadas will buzz this spring as two broods emerge at the same time
Billions of cicadas will emerge this spring across eastern and southern states as two broods arrive simultaneously for the first time in more than 200 years.
Much of the eastern United States can prepare for what one entomologist described as a "spectacular, macabre Mardi Gras" this spring.
The event Jonathan Larson, an extension entomologist at the University of Kentucky, is referring to is the simultaneous emergence of two cicada broods that will erupt in states from Virginia to Illinois come late April through June.
Periodical cicadas, which have the , spend most of their life underground in an immature nymph form before surfacing from the ground every 13 or 17 years for a brief
