[8] Magicicada cassini is endemic to North America, its range extending across the northern belt of the United States and the southern part of Canada.

[8] These cicadas are true bugs and after having emerged from underground, the adults feed on sap sucked from trees and shrubs.

These hatch about two months later and the first instar nymphs drop to the ground where they move underground and suck xylem sap from small rootlets.

They will moult five times, moving on to larger roots deep in the soil as they grow over a period of seventeen years.

[11] The different broods have been numbered, and the most recent emergence of Brood X occurred in Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia in May and June 2021.

[12] A popular reoccurring urban legend purports to say that rare blue (or white) eyed cicadas will fetch rewards of up to one million dollars.

And while it is true that blue eyed cicadas are extremely rare, occurring in only about one in every million insects, no laboratories currently offer any such reward.