FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — Everyone's starting to make a lot of noise about the trillions of bugs that will soon, well, make a lot of noise.
A double helping of cicada broods will emerge in the coming weeks, a rare two-for-one special that has the country buzzing over all the... buzzing, they'll produce.
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“We've got trillions of these amazing living organisms come out of the Earth, climb up on trees and it's just a unique experience, a sight to behold,” Georgia Tech biophysicist Saad Bhamla told the Associated Press earlier this month. “It's like an entire alien species living underneath our feet and then some prime number years they come out to say hello.”
Georgia will be no exception to all the cicada action. A U.S. Forest Service map has been circulating showing where 13-year cicadas that are part of Brood XIX (periodical cicadas, as they're known, live underground after hatching for periods of 13 and 17 years before emerging, like a finely aged wine) will show up in Georgia.
Where will there be cicadas in Georgia?
The map shows the following counties in blue as locations for Brood XIX, according to the USDA Forest Service:
- Fulton County
- Cobb County
- Troup County
- Polk County
- Floyd County
- Chattooga County
- Walker County
- Catoosa County
- White County
- Jackson County
- Madison County
But that's (maybe) not all!
University of Georgia researchers went out and catalogued the last 13-year cicada emergence, back in 2011.
Their survey found four times as many counties than were known to have 13-year cicada populations.
Since they don't move around much (remember, they go straight underground after hatching for the most part), there's a decent chance that you can find them in 2024 where you found them in 2011.
Maps below show counties where the UGA researchers found cicadas back in 2011:
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