These cicadas, first identified in 1634, have lived underground for 17 years and are expected to spread from Georgia to Indiana, and eventually to the Northeast.

These cicadas, first identified in 1634, have lived underground for 17 years and are expected to spread from Georgia to Indiana.

Brood XIV is not alone If you’re a cicada fancier, you could be forgiven for being confused about the insects’ 17-year cycle, because cicadas can appear at much shorter intervals—even annually.

Cicadas of Brood XIV have begun to emerge this spring, starting in the Southeast and making their way to the Northeast.

Brood XIV is one of 15 broods of periodical cicadas that emerge every 13 or 17 years. This year they'll be in states such as Maryland and Tennessee.

The cicadas are back – well, some of them. Brood XIV has begun to emerge in some eastern U.S. states. The brood emerges every 17 years, and is considered the second largest periodical cicada ...

A massive brood of periodical cicadas will emerge soon across the eastern United States, with the notoriously raucous springtime insects due for their 2025 appearance. Known for their buzzing ...

Brood XIV, a special type of buzzing cicada, is expected to make an appearance in New Jersey this spring.

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.

Brood X -- pronounced Brood 10 for the roman numeral -- is one of the 15 periodical cicada broods in the U.S. Most of these periodical cicadas emerge once every 17 years, but there are a few that ...

Another 17 years have passed for one brood of periodic cicadas, and the time has come for them to emerge from the ground and deafen people with their loud drones.

Known as Brood XIV, it's the nation's second largest periodical cicada brood and its emergence will be witnessed by a good portion of the eastern United States.