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 ...

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.