HYANNIS – Barnstable County officials say parts of Cape Cod and Southeastern Massachusetts will experience a once-in-a-generation event this summer with the emergence of Brood XIV (14) periodical cicadas.
Scientists group these insects as “broods” and use Roman numerals to track them.
They are different from the cicadas that are heard every summer. These cicadas spent 17 years underground, and they emerge in huge numbers all at once…