Loud And Large: Brood X Cicadas Emerging After 17 Years Underground

CHARLESTON (KDKA/CBS LOCAL) – This spring, residents in 15 eastern and central U.S. states won’t be able to miss the mass emergence of billions of cicadas. They come out of the ground when it reaches a certain temperature. And now, there’s an app for tracking them.
Loud and large, Brood X is one of the largest and most widespread of the periodical cicadas. After being underground for 17 years, billions are popping up.
While they may not be here in western Pennsylvania, our neig