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Beneath the ground, right now, millions of small, winged bugs are waiting. And sometime in the next few weeks, these cicadas will burst forth – almost all at once.
Brood X (pronounced Brood Ten ), is a group of periodical cicadas that emerges from the dirt once every 17 years to shed their crunchy exoskeletons, sing, mate and usher their babies back into the dirt before the cycle starts anew.
Andrew Liebhold, a research entomologist with the U.S. Forest Service, says Brood X cicadas are likely to appear en masse at the edges of forested land, mostly because they feed on liquid from tree roots.