The civilians of the world may not be looking forward to the ... University of Missouri Extension narrowed the USDA’s cicada map down to show only the two broods that will emerge in 2024 ...

For the 2024 emergence, 17-year cicadas, born in 2007, will burst forth in selected regions of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois, as indicated in brown on the map. Meanwhile ...

These curious creatures spend most of their lives in the ground, emerging after 13 or 17 years to eat, breed, die and repeat ...

While annual cicadas can be found throughout the world, periodicals are unique to North America. Periodical broods are concentrated in the central and eastern regions of the United States ...

will be heading this year — along with many other cicada sites — to map out their appearances. "I've been doing cicada mapping since 1976. I'm that old," Kritsky told Business Insider.

While they are some of the longest-lived insects in the world, periodical cicadas spend almost their entire lives underground as what entomologists call "nymphs". They live in the soil and feed on ...