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Photojournalist John Stanmeyer photographed cicadas during this year's Brood XIX and Brood XIII emergence. Cicadas among 20 mesmerizing photos on National Geographic's 2024 'Pictures of the Year ...
Why do some cicadas appear white? Brood XIX cicadas are periodical cicadas, appearing as adults as black with red eyes and orange veins within their wings. Lengthwise, they are only around 1.5 inches.
These 17 states, which range from Oklahoma to Wisconsin to North Carolina and more, are seeing the trillions of cicadas emerging this year in a rare, double brood event.
The brood emerging this years, Brood XIX, is a 13-year brood that stretches from southern Iowa to Oklahoma, through the southern coastal states and as far east as Washington D.C.
Nearly all cicadas spend years underground as juveniles, before emerging above ground for a short adult stage of several weeks to a few months. The seven periodical cicada species are so named because, in any one location, all members of the population are developmentally synchronized—they emerge as adults all at once in the same year.
Adult cicadas appear over the summer and inhabit forested areas near bodies of water. The predominantly black form from the Sydney and Central Coast regions is commonly known as the black prince, while the term silver knight is used for the species as a whole. An audio recording of a Black Prince Cicada (Psaltoda plaga).
The emergence from Maryland to Oklahoma and Illinois to Alabama will generate trillions of bugs across those areas. The map below shows the cicada broods emerging this year: Brood XIII and Brood XIX.
In 2024, both are coming up from the ground for the first time in 221 years. This means billions of cicadas will be emerging, largely in the Midwestern and Southern United States.