ATLANTA — It's the summer blockbuster playing right outside your door -- cicada-geddon, cicadapalooza, cicadafest 2024; whatever you want to call it, the bugs are coming and they're going to be loud.
This year in particular is generating such a hoopla because two periodical broods are emerging from underground (periodical cicadas, as they're known, live underground after hatching for periods of 13 and 17 years before emerging).
In Georgia, we're only liable to really see one of those periodical broods Brood XIX, which will emerge after a 13-year cycle.
Or, perhaps, we should say is emerging.
We're now starting to reach the beginning of the window for when the cicadas can be expected to start emerging, and in the last couple days 11Alive has gotten photos in from Macon and Muscogee County taken by people who have seen the first of the cicadas.
Cicadas in Georgia | Where there have been sightings so far
So far we've only had a couple people contact us, but if you start to see cicadas and want to share photos, please either text us photos at 404-885-7600 or you can upload photos through the 11Alive app, which you can download here for Apple and here for Google Play.
You'll notice in some of the phots you're only seeing what looks like the skin of the bugs -- that's because it is. They shed their exoskeleton in such a way that it looks like the bug is kind of just frozen in place.
- Muscogee County
Elisia C in Muscogee County sent us the four following photos:
- Macon
And Michael Stedman in Macon sent us the following three photos:
- Warner Robins
Sabrina Frost in Warner Robins sent us these four photos:
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