Cicada chaos is flourishing and flying in the American Midwest.
Florida’s Disaster Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday ends today. Here’s what you can save on before it’s overThese must-have Insider Deal household items are at unbeatable prices!Dead periodical cicadas and nymphal shells pile up at the base of a tree, Saturday, May 18, 2024, in Charleston, Ill. Trillions of once hidden baby bugs are in the air, on the trees and perching upon people's shirts, hats and even faces. – The ground had seemed to undulate at night, alive with bugs.
The sound abounds in the suburbs of Chicago, such as Oak Brook, but has already faded farther south in the state, including where two broods overlap. In an asphalt-laden DuPage County shopping plaza, cicadas mobbing the branches of the only tree drowned out the next door automated car wash's whirring hoses and spinning brushes.
At the Lincoln Memorial Garden in Springfield, Executive Director Joel Horwedel figured he'd put up a pushpin map of the United States to track where visitors came from. He wasn't thinking big enough. At the bottom of the map under a scrawl of “Out of USA” are “Japan Belgium Lithuania Germany England Japan .”U.S. Department of Agriculture research entomologist Rebecca Schmidt said usually when she gets calls about bugs, it's something bad and scary, like.
“They're very hunchbacked, just kind of slowly, almost alien-like to me, crawling with all their little appendages,” Rydzewski said. But she adds, “they look really cute.” “Creepy crawly animals is probably the most common fear that people have,” said Martin Antony, chair of the psychology department at Toronto Metropolitan University and director of its anxiety research and treatment lab.“There's nothing dangerous about cicadas but cicadas may share features with other animals that are potentially threatening or carry disease,” Antony said.
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