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And this year it’s a little bit more spread out.” The cicadas expected this summer are a part of a 17-year cycle, but experts say it’s hard to know if we’ll see the same numbers as last year.

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annual cicadas, which are spotted every year, and periodical cicadas, which spend most of their lives underground and only emerge once every decade or two. While annual cicadas can be found ...

It lives underground and emerges every seven to eight years. This year, they're out in full force and in much larger numbers than usual. Red Eye cicadas cluster on a tree in North Sydney.

Periodical cicadas have a very strange lifecycle. They spend 13 or 17 years underground (depending on the brood), and then suddenly emerge in their billions over the course of a few weeks.