Cicada Invasion 2024 Which States.  — billions of bugs are emerging from the soil across a large swath of the united states in a natural phenomenon last witnessed in 1803.  — naturalists have already spotted the first arrivals in a rare phenomenon during which cicadas will emerge this spring across more than a dozen us states — including populous areas like chicago,.

The insects in this photo are brood x cicadas.  — periodical cicadas, which only live in midwestern and eastern states, spend either 13 or 17 years underground before coming out as adults in mass, synchronized emergences, while annual cicadas, which live all over north america and other parts of the world only spend a few years underground before appearing above ground in smaller,.