Isabel Wherry tells PEOPLE her daughter named the cicada, Cicady Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously ...

The cicada life cycle has three stages ... They spend their entire developmental period in these underground burrows before molting their shells and surfacing as adults to mate and lay eggs.

This process is called molting, and it allows the adult cicadas ... When they emerge from the ground depends upon the type of cicada. There are annual cicadas, which emerge every year, as well ...

They mate, molt and then die, leaving behind their offspring ... The overlap of these two broods has been dubbed by an expert as "cicada-geddon" – but it won't be the biggest cicada event.