17-year cicadas emerge in eastern U.S.

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Cicadas emerge to mate, in huge numbers, at the end of their life cycle.

Hordes of cicadas cling to lilly plants at Preston Bolick's home in Stoneville, N.C. in this May 16, 2013 photo. (AP Photo/News & Record, H. Scott Hoffman)

Seventeen-year Brood II cicadas emerge in the Leavells Crossing neighborhood in Spotsylvania, Va., on Thursday, May 16, 2013. The first cicadas have officially arrived in Virginia for the 2013 season. Brood II cicadas, which live in a stretch from north-central North Carolina through central Virginia to Connecticut, last appeared in 1996. (AP Photo/The Free Lance-Star, Dave Ellis)

A statue is covered with cicadas at Preston Bolick's home in Stoneville, N.C. in this May 16, 2013 photo. (AP Photo/News & Record, H. Scott Hoffman)

One of thousands of cicadas seen on a farm in Stoneville, N.C. in this May 16, 2013 photo. (AP Photo/News & Record, H. Scott Hoffman)

Gary Hevel, a research collaborator with the Dept. of Entomology at the National Museum of Natural History, holds up a preserved cicadas, a brood of which are expected to emerge this spring in the Washington area, at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum Support Center in Camp Springs, Md. on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

A box of preserved cicadas, including emerging insects and molted exoskeletons, in storage at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum Support Center in Camp Springs, Md. on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. A brood of cicadas are expected to emerge this spring in the Washington area. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Gary Hevel, a research collaborator with the Dept. of Entomology at the National Museum of Natural History, opens a case of preserved cicadas, a brood of which are expected to emerge this spring in the Washington area, from storage at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum Support Center in Camp Springs, Md. on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Seventeen year Brood II cicadas emerge in the Leavells Crossing neighborhood in Spotsylvania, Va on Thursday, May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/The Free Lance-Star, Dave Ellis)

This photo provided by the University of Connecticut, shows a cicada in Pipestem State Park in West Virginia on May 27, 2003. Any day now, cicadas with bulging red eyes will creep out of the ground after 17 years and overrun the East Coast with the awesome power of numbers. Big numbers. Billions. Maybe even a trillion. For a few buggy weeks, residents from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered by 600 to 1. Maybe more. And the invaders will be loud. A chorus of buzzing male cicadas can rival a jet engine.(AP Photo/University of Connecticut, Chirs Simon)

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Hordes of cicadas cling to lilly plants at Preston Bolick's home in Stoneville, N.C. in this May 16, 2013 photo. (AP Photo/News & Record, H. Scott Hoffman)

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