This brood involves all three 17-year species, the site explains: Magicicada septendecim, Magicicada cassini, and Magicicada septendecula. The University of Connecticut explains that Brood XIV is ...

Magicicada are so well-synchronized developmentally that they are nearly absent as adults in the 12 or 16 years between emergences.” They tend to be called locusts, but they’re not, the ...