Althea Kerrie

2024 Cicada Swarming. As a survival mechanism, these insects spend most of their lives as underground nymphs and emerge in predictable intervals of 13 or 17 years. The great cicada invasion of 2024 is upon us, with trillions of the noisy critters set to take over large swaths of the u.s.

Some cicadas this year will fall victim to a parasitic fungus that makes them into ‘zombies.’. Check out where broods xiii, xix are projected to emerge.