Cicadas in North Carolina: When & where they will emerge in 2024 [Video]

NORTH CAROLINA, USA — It’s only a matter of days before trillions of periodical cicadas emerge from the ground across much of North Carolina. You won’t be able to miss them with their loud sounds.

They’re part of Brood XIX, a periodical cicada that’s only seen every 13 years, according to Clyde Sorenson, professor of Entomology at NC State University.

Their numbers will be so large that you can expect to see a million cicadas per acre, University of Connecticut cicada expert John Cooley said. Sorenson said cicadas like hardwood forest ecosystems and will be widespread across more than a dozen North Carolina counties.

Where can we expect to see cicadas?

Most of the counties are in the Triangle region of the state. They include Wake, Durham, Orange, Chatham, Northhampton, Halifax, Warren, and Franklin counties.

In the Piedmont Triad, people …