Oh, to be a cicada.

For the last 17 years, a group of cicadas known as Brood XIV has been buried several inches underground, doing very little. This particular batch of insects has missed a global pandemic, Donald Trump winning two presidential elections, Brexit, multiple wars, and more.

Now they’re about to emerge.

By the billions.

Across large portions of the eastern US, from Long Island to central Tennessee.

Around May and June, the noisy insects will erupt from the ground and live only for a few weeks — just long enough to find mates and lay eggs — before dying. Once their offspring hatch, the young will bury........

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