It's coming, some places it's already begun, it's not a harbinger of bad times, the world isn't coming to an end, but it is coming. The Great Cicada Emergence of 2024, a bug hatch of monumental ...

Local police joked that the “suspect fled the scene” and said that drivers should drive with their windows up for the next several weeks A cicada caused a car crash in Ohio. The Blue Ash Police ...

WESTERN SPRINGS, Ill. — The cicada invasion has completely taken over some parts of the Chicago area — especially in Western Springs. WGN’s Marcus Leshock is back in the western suburb with an update ...

Billions, if not trillions, of two groups of noisy flying insects are expected to emerge from the underground in 17 U.S. states in April in a rare natural phenomenon not seen since 1803. The insects, ...

Marvin Lo, Morton Arboretum tree root scientist, collects fallen periodical cicada specimens at the base of a tree on Thursday, June 6, 2024, at Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Ill. Trillions of once ...

While Brood XIX cicadas are starting to slow down in the South, Brood XIII is nearing peak emergence in the Midwest. The Chicago area is seeing massive groups of bugs emerge, and local news stations ...

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Airplanes and cicadas are not a good mix. They make a mess when they hit the windscreen. They are distracting when they swarm you as you are trying to do a preflight inspection of the airplane. And ...

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, ...