Brood XXII

Brood XXII (also known as The Baton Rouge Brood) is a brood of 13-year periodical cicadas, last seen in 2014 in a geographic region centered on Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as well as other locations in southeast Louisiana and southwest Mississippi.

are often referred to as "17-year locusts" because most of the known distinct broods have a 17-year life cycle.

The next emergence of The Baton Rouge Brood is expected in 2027.

Every 13 years, Brood XXII tunnels en masse to the surface of the ground, mates, lays eggs, and then dies off in several weeks.

In 1907, the entomologist C. L. Marlatt postulated the existence of 30 different broods of periodical cicadas: 17 distinct broods with a 17-year life cycle, to which he assigned Roman numerals I through XVII (with emerging years 1893 through 1909); plus 13 broods with a 13-year cycle, to which he assigned Roman numerals XVIII through XXX (1893 through 1905).