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 ...

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 ...

Cicadas — big-eyed, winged insects that are typically around two inches long and are members of the same biological order as stink and bed bugs — may look ferocious but are harmless.

For the past 17 years, they've been underground, never moving more than 3 feet, sipping tree root sap and excavating tunnels ...