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'Bourbon brood' cicadas start emerging in Kentucky after 17-year slumber

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Billions of the winged insects are set to emerge from underground starting this month for a weekslong, frenzied and famously noisy mating ritual.

This year 's cicadas are expected to pop out of the ground in nearly a dozen states, but the emergence will mostly be centered in Kentucky and Tennessee .

The bugs are known as periodical cicada broods, because they spend a fixed number of years underground before coming to the surface to find a mate.

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