Billions of Brood X cicadas emerge in U.S. after 17 years underground

Every 17 years, parts of the central, eastern, and southern U.S. see a massive emergence of "periodical" cicadas. #Cicadas are insects belonging to the family Cicadidae in the order Hemiptera.
America is the only place in the world that has periodic cicadas that stay underground for years. There are many broods of periodic cicadas that appear in different years, but the #BroodX is one of the largest and most broadly distributed groups of periodical cicadas.

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