[GameSpot] - Cicadas Are Back After 17 Years, But Won't Be In Animal Crossing Until July

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If you've played any of the Animal Crossing games before New Horizons, then you're no stranger to the mystical buzzing of the cicada. The loud summer bugs are a staple of the franchise and are finally returning to the real world after 17 years of underground development. They'll start to cover trees across Eastern North America and elsewhere in the coming weeks.

While real-world cicada's will start emerging throughout May, we won't see them in Animal Crossing until the first day of July when the Brown, Giant, and Robust Cicadas start sucking the fluid from every tree between town hall and the museum. Cicadas show up during the summer in the Northern Hemisphere and next year in early January for people playing in the Southern Hemisphere. You can find complete details about how to catch every type of cicada in our bug catching guide.

There isn't a 13 or 17 year cycle with the insects within Animal Crossing, but there has been an eight-year gap between Animal Crossing: New Leaf and New Horizons.

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