--- title: See the Photos of the Rare Cicada Emergence description: See the photos of the rare double-emergence of two cicada broods canonical: https://time.com/6988671/see-photographs-of-the-spring-cicada-super-brood/ author: Solcyré Burga article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-06-14T18:53:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-06-01T06:57:49.875Z article:section: Science og:title: See Photos of the Rare Cicada Emergence og:description: See the photos of the rare double-emergence of two cicada broods og:url: https://time.com/6988671/see-photographs-of-the-spring-cicada-super-brood/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt903e3f78cbec5f70/698a57d786f68e69fc6f53cd/Cicada_Superhatch_AlanaPaterson_063.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Cicada_Superhatch_AlanaPaterson__063 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See Photos of the Rare Cicada Emergence twitter:description: See the photos of the rare double-emergence of two cicada broods twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt903e3f78cbec5f70/698a57d786f68e69fc6f53cd/Cicada_Superhatch_AlanaPaterson_063.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- # See the Photos of the Rare Cicada Emergence Jun 14, 2024 6:53 PM UTC  A cicada from the 13-year Brood XIX in Chicago, Ill. Certain neighborhoods, notably wealthy ones with big gardens, mature trees, lawns and most importantly- decades of undisturbed soil appeared to be the hardest hit by the swarms. A cicada from the 13-year Brood XIX in Chicago, Ill. Certain neighborhoods, notably wealthy ones with big gardens, mature trees, lawns and most importantly- decades of undisturbed soil appeared to be the hardest hit by the swarms.Alana Paterson  by [Solcyré Burga](https://time.com/author/solcyre-burga/)  ## Solcyré Burga Reporter Jun 14, 2024 6:53 PM UTC Earlier this spring, two broods of cicadas—the 13-year Brood XIX and 17-year Brood XIII— made history [in a co-emergence](https://time.com/6966406/cicadas-trillion/) that had not been seen in more than two centuries. Their buzzy mating call is being heard across the Midwest and Southeast—though Illinois is especially experiencing a significant year as periodical and annual cicadas gather at the same time. While there is little overlap between the two broods of periodical cicadas, the highest likelihood of contact between broods is near Springfield, Ill., [according to the University of Connecticut](https://cicadas.uconn.edu/). That slight overlap does not necessarily mean the two broods will breed with one another. “Is there a possibility of interactions and hybridization? That could occur—but given the long life cycles, it's really hard to study,” PJ Liesch, the director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab, tells TIME. Periodical cicadas spend [most of their livelihoods](https://time.com/6968210/cicada-brood-emergence-animation-2024/) underground before tunneling up to the surface to repopulate for the next generation of cicadas. Below are photos of the noisy little creatures, from Chicago through Dewitt County, Ill.  Alana Paterson  Alana Paterson  Alana Paterson  Alana Paterson  tktkAlana Paterson  Alana Paterson  Alana Paterson  David and Kathy McDonald take photographs to upload on the Cicada Safari app.Alana Paterson  Alana Paterson  Alana Paterson ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6988671/see-photographs-of-the-spring-cicada-super-brood/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6988671/see-photographs-of-the-spring-cicada-super-brood/"},"headline":"See the Photos of the Rare Cicada Emergence","datePublished":"2024-06-14T18:53:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-06-01T06:57:49.875Z","description":"See the photos of the rare double-emergence of two cicada broods","url":"https://time.com/6988671/see-photographs-of-the-spring-cicada-super-brood/","keywords":["animals","News Desk"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Solcyré Burga","jobTitle":"Reporter","url":"https://time.com/author/solcyre-burga/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/animals/","name":"animals"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6988671/see-photographs-of-the-spring-cicada-super-brood/","name":"See the Photos of the Rare Cicada Emergence"}}]}] ```