Brood Xix Cicadas 2024. Brood xix, the great southern brood, hatched in 2011 and has spent 13 years underground, sipping sap from tree roots. Brood xix is arguably the largest (by geographic extent) of all periodical cicada broods, with records along the east coast from maryland to georgia and in the midwest from iowa to.
Check out the 2024 cicada map. Adult periodical cicadas from brood xix have been spotted by users in multiple states across the southeast and midwest including in.