While Illinois will experience annual cicadas in 2025, it won't see a repeat of 2024. The two periodical broods that appeared ...

Cicadas are emerging in Illinois and anglers are taking advantage of aggressive smallies and carp feeding on big bugs. Here’s how to get in on the action By Ryan CheliusJun 13, 2024 ...

SULLIVAN, Ill. (WAND) - Last year, tens of thousands of cicadas emerged in Central Illinois and laid their eggs before returning to the ground. While they were above ground, they ...

BLOOMINGTON — Don’t look now, but two broods of periodical cicadas that were not due to emerge until 2024 are making an early appearance in parts of Illinois. You might think it’s just ...

The oak leaf itch mite has been tied to outbreaks of post-cicada rashes in Illinois in 2007 and in Maryland in 2021. Cicadas in Ohio should start to disappear by mid-June as the mating and egg ...

Fossil of Eoplatypleura messelensis, the oldest known cicada, discovered in Germany’s Messel Pit and dating back 47 million years to the Eocene Epoch. Senckenberg Nature Museum ...

Cicadas are back at it again in 2025, already emerging in droves to announce the approach of summer with their screeches. If you live in the Eastern U.S., get ready to meet (and hear) Brood XIV (14), ...