The Cicadas are coming! The Cicadas are coming!

Oh joy and rapture, Cicadas are coming. — Connecticut DEEP photo

They’re baaaaack! Wild and crazy Cicadas, known as Brood II, are on their way.

Brood II sounds like the name of a horror film. Fitting for insects with red eyes, orange wings and black bodies that live underground and only emerge above the surface every 17 years.

Cicadas are expected to show up in Connecticut anytime now through mid June, and the state’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) wants us to know we have nothing to fear. But do we?