Seventeen years later, Brood XIV cicadas emerge in US |

Last time, when these throwing, red -eyed insects exited the ground across the US suburbs and Woodlands, in the early 2008 summer.
Global financial gitlers were growing, iPhone was a luxury item, and George W Bush was still President.
Now, the reports of the Citizen-Science App Sikada Safari show the first insects of Brood XIV, which appear to the south of the US every 17 years. As the ground temperature is hot throughout the north, millions of people are expected to follow.
Cicadas insect orders belong to Hemiptera, including Stink bugs, bed bugs and aphids.
But they are often incorrect for locusts, an illusion that is in the dates of early English settlers, who compared large -scale biblical calamities. Brood XIV was first documented in 1634.
There are about 3,500 species of Cicadus globally, many are still anonymous.
But Periodic cacaadus Chris Simon, a leading Cicada specialist at the University of Connecticut, Chris Simon’s head Cicada Simon, says Chris Simon, who emerges after 13 or 17 years, is unique to the Eastern United States.
Simon told AFP, “Everyone is fascinated by them, because you do not see anything for 13 or 17 years, and then suddenly, your house and car are covered in these insects.”
“This is a wonderful event that you can take your children to see and do miracles, come out of their shells and wonder how they developed,” he said, urged the public to appreciate, not afraid of them.
“The world will not live without insects.”
Because the years of their emergence are stored, Sikada broods appear in different years from different times. In 2024, a rare “double vaimi” occurred when the 13 -year -old Brood XIX overlaps with a 17 -year -old Bruge XIIII.
This is not the case in 2025, but there is more enthusiasm around these mysterious critics, who continue to conspiracy-especially given the evolutionary arguments behind their major number of life cycles.
Cicadas are often thought of as “creatures of history”, adding memories of previous life chapters, when you were emerging this brood for the last time, what you were doing.
They spend their entire life underground, passing through life stages called Instar, before tunling on the surface for a few weeks, molt, mate, and to die – while their new gems fall from the trees and evil in the soil, start the cycle.
Male form a chorus, using timbal, sound-producing membrane on either side of his abedoman using his deaf-sexual call, which is compared to siren or electrical appliances.
They do not bite or sting, and they do not eat solid food in their adult form, although they drink water.
Instead, their defense swings abundantly in such numbers that they satisfy predators such as birds, racoon, foxes and turtles, play an important role in the ecosystem.
But his survival strategy is challenged by human-based changes.
The harvesting and urbanization of broad forests has destroyed the residence. And now, climate change “straglers” is triggering more frequent events of Cicadas that emerge four years too quickly or too late, often very small to survive in numbers, which can danger the long -term population number.
Simon said that in areas such as Capital Washington, these incredible emergence are formed the “a patchy mosaic” of overlapping broods.
Then there is a political atmosphere. Under President Donald Trump, the federal government has withdrawn N Mess and frozen funds to scientists for new research.
For the National DCI Foundation for a major genetic study in the internal watches of Cycadus, a major genetic study in the biological mechanisms, Simon submitted a grant proposal in the last August, which in any way tracks the passage of years, unlike the 24 -hour circadian cycles of humans.
“Nobody knows what is happening,” he said, reducing the current attacks on science.