Cicada 2024 Timeline Of. Folks in the midwest and the south, get ready for a lot of noisy cicadas. Periodical cicada broods will spend over a decade underground, and will only emerge after either 13 or 17 years.

The first sign that cicada season is imminent is the appearance of small holes in the soil, often near tree roots. This spring, two broods of cicadas will emerge in the midwest and the southeast, in their first dual appearance since 1803.