
Cicada Life Cycles and Stages
Periodical cicadas have an incredibly fascinating journey through life; they are among the longest living bug species, for one, and for another, they spend the overwhelming majority of their life creating tunnels and living underneath the earth, waiting exactly 13 or 17 years for their emergence. 2024 proves to be an especially fascinating year, as for the first time since 1803 the Broods XIX and XIII will emerge at the same time. To underline the