PERRY COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) -- In terms of fame and fortune -- well, okay... maybe not fortune, but certainly fame! -- no brood of 17-year cicadas matches Brood X, which last emerged in 2021.

Anyone old enough also remembers the 2004 emergence, the 1987 one and so forth.

But should Brood XIV (that's 14 rather than 10, for the Roman numeral-impaired) -- emerging now -- have at least as great a claim to fame?

"This is the brood," said Dr. John Cooley, who studies cicadas at the University of Connecticut. "The brood European colonists first encountered."

Indeed, the 1634 emergence of what would later be identified as Brood XIV cicadas is chronicled in a book called The Pilgrims' Promise by another of the world's most prominent cidada experts, Dr. Gene Kritsky.

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