We’re just weeks away from the highly anticipated cicada invasion and when we say invasion, we mean it. Get ready Illinois, cicada-geddon is coming.
Illinois is just weeks away from the highly anticipated cicada invasion and when we say invasion, we mean it.Hundreds of trillions or even quadrillions of bugs will emerge from the ground. If you do the math, that’s an average of 1 million per acre.Get ready Illinois, cicada-geddon is coming."It’s like an entire alien species living underneath our feet," said Saad Bhamla, a Georgia Tech School of Engineering professor.Bhamla said we’re in for a rare double dose of cicadas this year.
As of late-April, most of Illinois has an 8-inch soil temperature in the mid-50s.According to historical averages, Illinois typically reaches the 64-degree threshold sometime between mid-May and early June.So it’s about to get noisy. This is what May Berenbaum, a professor at the University of Illinois, said about just how noisy our little cicada friends will be."What you will hear this year…is singing that will reach decibels of 90 to 100," Berenbaum said.
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