CHAMAPIGN COUNTY, Ill. (WCIA) — With the 13 and 17-year broods dying off across Central Illinois, people are wondering what’s next — especially for their trees. One Urbana-based landscaper, Chandler Womack, said some may see damaged branches. Morton Arboretum shares post-cicada tree care tips To fix it, he suggests putting down slow-release fertilizer to encourage […]
The state Department of Natural Resources is reminding people not to illegally take cicadas from state park properties. The DNR has received multiple reports of people harvesting the insects at Big Foot Beach State Park, the department said in a press release. The park is along Geneva Lake in Walworth County. Walworth County is a […]
The state Department of Natural Resources is reminding people not to illegally take cicadas from state park properties. The DNR has received multiple reports of people harvesting the insects at Big Foot Beach State Park, the department said in a press release. The park is along Geneva Lake in Walworth County. Walworth County is a […]
When it comes to cicadas, people either love them, don’t mind them … or eat cicadas as a snack. No matter, though, there’s no denying the colorful, relatively harmless and non-invasive bug. And what better way to commemorate the tail end of the cicada brooding season than by having your very own cicada bobblehead figurine? […]
RIVERWOODS, Ill. (AP) — The ground had seemed to undulate at night, alive with bugs. Crawling cicada nymphs, striving to get higher after 17 years underground, marched en masse toward and up trees, pausing to shed their skin and emerge as adults. And then the fun began. Cicada chaos is flourishing and flying. Trillions of […]
Recently, many have discussed a so-called “cicada apocalypse” or “explosion of bugs” happening this year in the United States, during which two large broods of the insects will co-emerge at the same time. Cicadas are special insects that grow primarily underground, then emerge for breeding season in the late spring and summertime and are most […]
Three quick things: Cicadas’ arrival during North Carolina summers could increase your chance of running into a copperhead, a predator of the insects. This year, the state is experiencing a 13-year brood. The influx of cicadas does not cause a rise in the copperhead population, only a slightly higher chance of encounters. This is particularly […]
It’s the spring of the cicada. These buzzy insects are coming out in droves, thanks to an unusual synchronized natural phenomenon. This mating ritual occurs once every 221 years, and it involves two broods of insects with homes next to one another in the United States. However, whether or not you witness the trillions of […]
By Will Dunham (Reuters) – Cicadas, the noisy but rather tame insects that spend most of their lives underground, are poised to put on quite a show starting this month in a wide swath of the United States. Two sizable adjacent broods of periodical cicadas – the kind that spend a specific number of years […]
Illinois may well be the cicada capital of the United States this spring when millions of the large, loud insects emerge from the ground in an event unseen since 1803. While annual cicadas emerge every midsummer in Illinois, this year will feature a once-in-several-lifetimes event when two particular broods of periodical cicadas will start appearing […]
If you live in one of the lucky (or should we say unlucky?) states, this spring is bringing a once-in-a-lifetime event just outside your window. Starting in mid-May, 16 states in the South and Midwest will experience the emerging of two different cicada groups simultaneously, something that hasn’t happened in 221 years and won’t again […]
More than a dozen states across the U.S. are set for a once-in-a-lifetime experience this spring, though it’s one most people would probably prefer to do without. This year, 16 states across parts of the South and the Midwest will see the emergence of two different cicada groups in tandem, a crossover that hasn’t happened […]