Reports of sightings are likely individual “stragglers” that have come out too early or from people who have taken a shovel to the ground.
Horticulturist Rachelle Frosch demonstrates how to gently place fine-mesh netting around young and or vulnerable trees, during a news conference at Morton Arboretum in Lisle on April 30, 2024. In a restored savanna habitat behind the Lake Forest College science center, professor Sean Menke crouched down next to a small circular hole and stuck a thermometer into the ground.
“With the weather we’ve been having, there’s some concern that they’re going to be emerging earlier,” Menke said. “And we’re hearing reports from people that they’re finding the tunnel that they dig in the Chicago suburbs.” Historically, very cold winter and spring seasons have pushed some cicada emergences to happen a few weeks later. But it has rarely happened significantly earlier in a given year.
“There’s a lot of research that shows that you don’t want to be somebody, from a cicada’s perspective, that emerges too early,” Menke said. “Because if you emerge too early, you’re just going to get eaten.”the numerous noisy insects distract avian predators from their usual caterpillar prey, which then feed on oak trees unchecked.
This cicada species and its unique call — no doubt echoing Biblical accounts of ancient Egypt — became known among early European colonists as the 17-year locusts, further perpetuating the misconception that, like the grasshopper plagues in the Mediterranean and North Africa, cicadas in North America can be devastating to crops and cause famine.
In the June 10, 1922 edition of the Chicago Tribune, Norman Ekstrom is shown with 17-year cicadas on himself in Geneva.
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