AP PHOTOS: Cicadas Swarm Parts of US as the Screaming Insects Emerge in Brood XIV's 17-Year Cycle

All the buzz about cicadas

Though their numbers vary from place to place, you likely have seen and for sure heard the periodical cicada, which has emerged this year in vast numbers and creating a loud drone during the warm part of the day.

Cicada Swarm Begins Rare Emergence In Eastern US After 17 Years Underground

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Cicadas Will Soon Bring a Noisy Start to the 2025 Summer as Brood XIV Emerges

Learn about the cicada brood emerging in 2025, and find out what these insects will do as they appear throughout much of the Eastern U.S.

Cicada Swarm Begins Rare Emergence in Eastern US After 17 Years Underground

A rare mass emergence of cicadas is underway across the eastern United States as Brood XIV—one of the largest 17-year periodical cicada broods—surfaces for the first time since 2008. Found only in eastern North America, periodical cicadas are known for their long underground life cycles, synchronized mass emergences, and piercing mating calls, according to researchers at the University of Connecticut. Brood XIV is considered a keystone brood bec…

Cicada invasion begins as Brood XIV swarms parts of U.S. See photos.

It is a one-in-17-year event for Brood XIV, which digs its way up from the soil as it warms and descends on neighborhoods in the billions.

Cicadas swarm parts of US as the screaming insects emerge in Brood XIV’s 17-year cycle

Billions of periodical cicadas will emerge across parts of the Eastern U.S.