Brood XIV cicadas will emerge in numbers around the lower billions in 13 states, including Ohio and parts of Greater.

Annual cicadas are brown or green and have black or white markings. "Periodical" cicadas look very different, with black bodies, reddish bug eyes, and orange wing veins. The 17-year cicadas will ...

and are a bit smaller than Dog Day cicadas, with black bodies, Mass Wildlife explained. The periodical creatures are the ones people are clamoring for this year. In 2024, two broods of "periodical ...

broods of periodical cicadas will emerge once every 17 years across the Hoosier state. There are two broods, however, that emerge every 13 years, according to Purdue University. These black-bodied, ...

Isabel Wherry tells PEOPLE her daughter named the cicada, Cicady Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously ...

The various species of annual cicadas are larger than their periodical cousins and have black or greenish eyes. Their heads are also wide and flattened, unlike the periodical cicadas, whose heads ...