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Most modern cicadas belong to this family, including annual cicadas that appear every summer worldwide, as well as broods of black-bodied and red-eyed periodical cicadas, which emerge from May to June in eastern North America in cycles of 13 or 17 years.
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Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 13 May 2025
Emerging once every 17 years, Brood XIV is the second-largest group of periodical cicadas — which rise from underground en masse — and will be the only group this spring.
—Taylor Johnston, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2025
The species is notable for having both annual cicadas, which emerge and mate every year, and periodical cicadas which emerge after 13 or 17 years.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 22 Apr. 2025
Trillions of periodical cicadas are already emerging in a rare, two brood event across multiple states, with more expected to come in the following weeks.
—Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
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Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 13 May 2025
Emerging once every 17 years, Brood XIV is the second-largest group of periodical cicadas — which rise from underground en masse — and will be the only group this spring.
—Taylor Johnston, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2025
The species is notable for having both annual cicadas, which emerge and mate every year, and periodical cicadas which emerge after 13 or 17 years.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 22 Apr. 2025
Trillions of periodical cicadas are already emerging in a rare, two brood event across multiple states, with more expected to come in the following weeks.
—Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
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“Periodical cicada.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/periodical%20cicada. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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