Brood X Cicadas Emerge After 17 Years Underground

COLUMBIA, MD - JUNE 03: University of Maryland Professor Emeritus of Entomology Michael Raupp, a leading expert on the periodical cicada, holds up a Brood X Magicicada septendecula while telling the story of feeding talk show host Jay Leno a cicada on June 03, 2021 in Columbia, Maryland. Billions of Magicicada periodical cicadas are emerging from the soil in the eastern United States and Midwest to molt, mate, lay eggs and die after living underground for 17 years. (Footage by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)