Everything you need to know about the 17-year Cicadas

The Brood X cicadas have arrived. Here's everything you need to know to weather the swarm.

Here comes the buzz. The world was in a very different place 17 years ago: "The Facebook" had only just graduated from its Harvard dorm room, "Hey Ya!" was #1 on the Billboard charts, and the top 3 search terms on Google in 2004? Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Christina Aguilera.


Oh, and billions of red-eyed periodical cicadas wriggled out of the dirt to shed their nymphal husks and hum for their honies all across North America's Eastern Seaboard.

Brood X (as this particular clutch of creepy-crawly offspring is referred) is back like Bennifer: A 6-week summer reboot filled with sex, bugs & rock 'n' roll, only to die and return in 2038:

  • While most of Brood X are fashionably late to the party this year (we have other plagues to worry about anyway...), their arrival usually begins around early to mid-May and runs through late June.

  • Expect these winged Xennials to pop-up in states like Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia as well as Washington, DC.

Wonder's analysts put together a guide to everything you need to know about Brood X's Summer of Love.  

Read about what what our analyst dug up out of the dirt below:

View Wonder's "Brood X Guidebook" here

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Chris Connors