Starting sometime in the next couple of months, the next brood of cicadas will be emerging from underground, from New England west to Illinois and south to Georgia.
For about four weeks, wooded and suburban areas will echo with the sound of whistling and buzzing from the cicada's mating calls. After mating, each female will lay hundreds of eggs. The adults will die, and after hatching, the nymphs will burrow back underground where they will remain for the next 13-17 years; when the cycle will begin again.