As May gets closer and the soil warms, billions of cicadas from Brood X are ready to rise from the soil, making for a LOUD May. Most of Brood X emerges in the eastern United States…they will rise up out of the soil after 17 years of living underground. The emergence is the loudest part of a cicada’s life cycle. It all began when adult cicadas deposited their eggs on tree branches, nymphs hatched, fell to the ground, burrowed into the soil and fed on fluids sucked from the roots of plants and trees for years.
When the temperature warms the soil, they will rise up from the dirt. Cicadas are those chunky, noisy insects with the bright red-eyes and iridescent greenish color,
They’re emerging in more eastern Tennessee and Kentucky…of course, we may get a few around here. The LOUD four to six week-long event rages until all they die and you’ll see them all over the ground.
Check out the Cicada Map HERE.
It’s gonna be loud!
