Greater Cincinnati s Brood X cicadas are very popular.
Apparently, people are taking cicada-cations to see the emergence of the 17-year periodical cicadas, according to a Washington Post article.
The Washington Post talked to Jessie Fullenkamp, a Detroit resident who planned to come back to Cincinnati where she lived in college to see the cicadas emerge once again.
“One billion cicadas,” she told the Washington Post. “That only happens every 17 years, and I can’t miss it.”
Brood X is one of the largest and most broadly distributed groups of periodical cicadas.
They can be found from northern Georgia to New York, west to the Mississippi River and in the Midwest. There can be as many as 1.5 million cicadas per acre, which brings the brood population into the trillions.