Where Are The Cicadas In 2024. Emerging every year and in far fewer numbers, annual cicadas are predominantly green, while periodical cicadas have red eyes and red wing. Periodical cicadas, which only live in midwestern and eastern states, spend either 13 or 17 years underground before coming out as adults in mass, synchronized.
And then youโll hear their mating calls, too. In spring 2024, a double brood of periodical cicadas will emerge from the ground, molt, and take to the trees to serenade areas in 17 states across the southeast and midwest.