Tri-State students preparing for their first cicada invasion Tri-State high-schoolers contend with cicadas for the first time By Morgan Parrish | May 10, 2021 at 6:16 PM EDT - Updated May 11 at 6:10 PM CINCINNATI (FOX19) - It’s almost time for the cicada invasion of 2021. Now some students at New Richmond High School are making sure they’re prepared and learning everything they can before the insects emerge. The students, who will experience the cicadas for the first time, have gone so far as to set up a cicada museum with all kinds of facts about the insects. “I’m not looking forward to them at all,” 11th grader Maddie Wells said. “There’s so many of them. There’s such a big number. They’re probably going to be really scary.”