Wide swath of US gets buggy as two cicada broods intrude

Wide swath of US gets buggy as two cicada broods intrude

Two sizable adjacent broods of periodical cicadas are set to emerge simultaneously, one on a 17-year cycle and the other on a 13-year cycle, totaling more than a trillion cicadas. These two broods emerge together only once every 221 years, last occurring in 1803.