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Don’t forget the Brood X cicadas are set to hit the United States soon
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Keith Srakocic, Associated Press
The Brood X a group of cicadas that emerge every 17 years is set to arrive in the United States in the near future, according to CNN.
As I wrote for the Deseret News, Brood X, or the Great Eastern Brood, is coming back this year, sending billions of cicadas across the country primarily in the Eastern part of the country.
Cicadas “large, winged, kind of scary-looking but mostly harmless flying insects,” according to USA Today are known for their buzzing sounds.
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