Cicadas living underground for past 17 years to emerge in these states this summer
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A brood of periodical cicadas is set to emerge from underground for the first time in 17 years.
Americans can likely expect to see the swarm across 15 states as the ground temperature warms, according to a mapping site from the University of Connecticut, including the District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Georgia, and Tennessee. "The reason that this is such an impressive event...is number one: it happens nowhere else on the planet. We have periodical cicadas. There are cicadas on every continent except Antarctica, but it's just in the eastern half of the United States that we have the periodical cicadas," the University of Maryland's professor emeritus Dr. Michael Raupp told Fox News on Tuesday.More Related News