Trillions of cicadas emerge once in 17 years. This is that year
Things are about to get crowded.
It’s called Brood X: a brood of cicadas in the US that only emerges from the earth once every 17 years. They’ve been in a sort of pseudohibernation, feeding on plant sap, waiting, biding their time and the time is also here. In spring 2021, the trillions of cicadas will emerge, laying their eggs in trees which will hatch 4 to 6 weeks later in more than a dozen states. Then their offspring will head back underground until 2038.
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