The Brood X Cicadas Have Arrived
JUN 04, 2021
Photographers snapped images of the red-eyed insects emerging after 17 years underground.

A newly emerged adult cicada clings to its nymphal exoskeleton.
(Inside Science) -- Over the past few weeks, billions of cicadas have been appearing in backyards and gardens across the mid-Atlantic United States. Every 17 years, three species
For the next several weeks, cicadas will sing their cacophonous songs. Then the adults will die, leaving the world to the next generation. The youngsters will hatch from eggs in the branches and crawl into the ground, not to emerge for almost two decades.