NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Middle Tennessee will soon get a little noisier thanks to a 17-year brood of cicadas set to emerge.
Brood XIV, which Middle Tennesseans will start to see between late April and early May, last emerged in 2008.
“[The cicadas getting ready to emerge] are found approximately eight inches deep. When the temperature there reaches like 64 degrees Fahrenheit and when there is a good rain, is when we’ll start seeing them emerging,” Dr. Midhula Gireesh, an assistant professor & extension entomologist with the University of Tennessee, told News 2…