An Animated Guide to the Rare 2024 Cicada Co-Emergence

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Individual: Marc Benioff

An Animated Guide to the Rare 2024 Cicada Co-Emergence

More than a trillion noisy, inch-long cicadas are set to emerge from underground this spring to embark on the final leg of their lifetimes, in a massive co-emergence that hasn’t been seen in more than 200 years. Cicadas that are part of both a 13-year and a 17-year brood will emerge at the same time this spring. It will be the first time since 1803—when Thomas Jefferson was President—that these particular broods simultaneously tunnel up from th…