Brood X Cicada Time Lapse | Catoctin Mountain Park

Brood X Cicada Time Lapse | Catoctin Mountain Park.

They've waited for 17 years underground, and now it's time for the Brood X cicadas to emerge and morph into their adult form. Watch one of these fascinating insects complete the transformation at 2000 times the speed.

CREDIT:
Conrad Provan
Wikipedia
National Park Service (NPS)

Brood X (Brood 10), the Great Eastern Brood, is one of 15 broods of periodical cicadas that appear regularly throughout the eastern United States. The brood's first major emergence after 2021 is predicted to occur during 2038.

Periodical cicadas are insects that belong to the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They feed on plant fluids (xylem) both below and above ground.

Every 17 years, Brood X cicada nymphs 
tunnel upwards en masse to emerge from the surface of the ground. The insects then shed their exoskeletons on trees and other surfaces, thus becoming adults. The mature cicadas fly, mate, lay eggs in twigs, and then die within several weeks. The combination of the insects' long underground life, their nearly simultaneous emergence from the ground in vast numbers and their short period of adulthood allows the brood to survive even massive predation.

Brood X is endemic in Indiana, southeastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, East Tennessee, Virginia, 
Washington, DC, and other areas throughout the eastern United States. The brood contains three species, Magicicada septendecim, Magicicada cassinii and
Magicicada septendecula, that congregate on different trees and have different male songs.

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