In April 2004, "Mean Girls" was playing in theaters and "Yeah!" by Usher was topping the Billboard music charts. At the same time, around the mid-Atlantic region, small holes in the ground were ...

CINCINNATI - Brood X, the largest and most widespread brood of cicadas in the U.S., is set to emerge from the ground this spring after 17 years. The periodical cicadas, which are different than the ...

Hear that buzz? Billions of cicadas have crawled from underground in D.C., Maryland and Virginia to begin a weekslong period of cacophonous mating. While some may be worried about creepy crawlies, ...

FLY-FISHERS in the eastern half of the U.S. are eagerly anticipating a hatch 17 years in the making: the Brood X cicada emergence. From around mid-May through June, billions of these chubby bugs will ...

In the year 2000, four years before Brood X was scheduled to appear, cicadas came out early. Many died, but some in southwestern Ohio survived to form a separate group that reemerged in 2017. "We had ...

PERRY COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — In terms of fame and fortune — well, okay… maybe not fortune, but certainly fame! — no brood of 17-year cicadas matches Brood X, which last emerged in 2021. Anyone old ...

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 brood, ...

A Brood X cicada after emerging in Mifflin County in 2021. Brood XIV have started to emerge in parts of Pennsylvania and other states in 2025. They're back! The cicadas, that is. In particular Brood ...

PRINCETON, New Jersey -- Would you eat a cicada? Some high school students in Princeton, New Jersey are using the Brood X cicada emergence to spread the word about the benefits of eating insects. The ...

A: No. Brood X – the largest brood of 17-year cicadas – is emerging only in some parts of the Midwest, Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions in the United States. The bugs with black bodies, red eyes and ...