Some states have spotted cicadas starting to emerge. Will they come to Ohio in 2024? Learn and explore with this interactive map.

Brood XIV, one of the largest swarms of periodical cicadas, is set to rise from the ground for the first time in 17 years.

The theory is that the huge numbers of cicadas reminded early colonists — as far back as the 1600s — of the biblical plague of locusts in Exodus, so they called them locusts.

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Cicadas are creepy-looking, red-eyed bugs that emerge in writhing masses everyone once in a while looking for love. And one ...