But in one image, a unique change appeared. Kelly Simkins, owner of Merlin's Rockin Pet Show, spotted a blue-eyed cicada in the Orland Grassland forest preserve in Cook County. Simkins said the ...

As two separate broods emerge across parts of the United States, 2024 will be the year of the cicada-- and if you happen to see one of these bugs with blue eyes, you've caught something special.

It was late morning when The Morton Arboretum's Senior Horticulturist Kate Myroup arrived at the Children's Garden with a special guest: a rare, blue-eyed female Magicicada cassini cicada ...

While the great cicada emergence of 2024 brought a historic ... Similarly, Brood I is found largely in the Shenandoah Valley near the Blue Ridge Mountains, but is much smaller in numbers to ...

This year, cicadas from Brood XIV will be seen – and heard – in 13 states, said Gene Kritsky, founder of Cicada Safari, a group that crowdsources and reviews data on cicadas. The noisy ...

While this cicada phenomenon occurs every year, for Brood XIV and many other cicadas, it’s a small part of multiyear, multigenerational cycles that are connected to geography, the seasons and ...

This year, cicadas from Brood XIV will be seen – and heard – in Pennsylvania and 12 other states, according to Gene Kritsky, founder of Cicada Safari, a group that crowdsources and reviews ...

It never has been. It never will be.” For proof, she pointed to the website cicadas.info, which she described as the definitive source on cicada populations in the U.S. And sure enough ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee is one of five states expected to see the highest concentration of cicada activity this spring. The Brood XIV (14) cicada is expected to emerge across the United ...