Cicadas 2024 Missouri Time. This spring, for the first time since 1803, two cicada groups known as brood xix, or the great southern brood, and brood xiii, or the northern illinois brood, are set. This is the only time during the 21st century when two missouri broods emerge in the same year.
This year, missouri’s largest brood of periodical cicadas, known as the great southern brood, will finally emerge after 13 years underground and result in. For the first time in 221 years, more than one million cicadas will emerge simultaneously throughout the country.