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In May 2025, when Brood XIV emerges after 17 years, " ... expect up to 1.5 million cicadas per acre to begin boiling out of the ground," the university states.
This year is expected to be one for the record books. Brood XIII, which appears every 17 years, and Brood XIX, on a 13-year cycle, will coincide for the first time in over 200 years.
It is a rare event for cicadas with a 13-year life cycle and a 17-year life cycle to reach adulthood at the same time. Experts said this event will not happen again until 2245.
The brood's 2021 expected emergence in 15 states (Delaware, Illinois, Georgia, Indiana, New York, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Michigan), as well as in Washington, D.C., began in April. [5] [17] [25] Emergent cicadas were observed in western North Carolina during mid ...
The double emergence of Brood XIX and Brood XIII in multiple states this year will be the first time since 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was president.
This spring, two different broods of cicadas — one that lives on a 13-year cycle and the other that lives on a 17-year cycle — will emerge at the same time from underground in a rare ...
Cicadas, the ground-dwelling, noise-making, shell-leaving insects are set to emerge across the U.S. this summer in a rare double brood event. The last time these two broods came out together was ...
Billions of cicadas are expected to surface this spring as two different broods — one that appears every 13 years, and another every 17 years — emerge simultaneously.