Brood XIV cicadas are gearing up for their debut later this spring. This brood periodically emerges every 17 years.

Cicadas will likely first emerge during the third week of April or when areas experience “good rain,” cicada expert Gene Kritsky told USA TODAY.

What to know about this year's periodical cicada emergence: Brood XIV, the second-largest periodical cicada brood, last emerged in 2008, Tamra Reall, an entomologist at the University of Missouri ...

This year, cicadas from Brood XIV will be seen – and heard – in 13 states, said Gene Kritsky, founder of Cicada Safari, a group that crowdsources and reviews data on cicadas. The noisy ...