Cicadas 2024 Maryland. This year, two broods of flying cicadas have appeared at the same time, and it is the first time they have emerged simultaneously since 1803. Billions of cicadas will buzz this spring as two broods emerge at the same time.

A young tree in takoma park, maryland, is draped in netting in may 2021 to protect its small branches from being damaged by periodical cicadas laying their eggs. Starting in april, millions of periodical cicadas will begin emerging from the ground in the midwestern and southeastern united states.