Year Of The Locust 2024. Periodical cicada brood xiii (13) emerged in the spring of 2024 in iowa, wisconsin, illinois, indiana, and michigan (in one or two places). In a rare occurrence, a trillion cicadas from two different broods are expected to begin appearing in the midwest and southeast.
And then you’ll hear their mating calls, too. A cicada hole is seen in the soil after a heavy rain on the campus of wesleyan college in macon, ga., wednesday, march 27, 2024.