Cicada

Illinois is abuzz with anticipation as 2 cicada broods, Brood XIII and Brood XIX, are set to emerge together after 221 years. Discover when the emergence begins.

Trillions of bugs will be crawling out of the ground in the United States, turning into a flying horde. Here's where you'll see them in Wisconsin.

Join the culinary trend sweeping Illinois as Chef Joseph Yoon suggests adding cicadas to your stir fry, tempura, kimchi, and desserts with the billions emerging.

Billions of cicadas will be covering the entire state of Illinois this spring. Two periodic broods will emerge together and mate for the first time in over 200 years. You'll find eggs laid on wood surfaces and trees everywhere. Also, discover the sexually transmitted pathogen that turns male cicadas into sex-driven zombies.

This spring, we will see the largest number of cicadas popping out of the ground in over two centuries. A newly published map shows no other state will see as many as Illinois.

More importantly though, when will the noise go away? I live in a second-floor apartment. My bedroom window is almost eye level with the top of a large tree that sits outside our building. This means me and all the cicadas that live in that tree are basically sleeping right next to each other...

In case you missed it, the 17 year cicadas you learned about in school are supposed to return this summer. I personally have yet to see any, but I've seen videos of people hearing the sound of cicadas around Rockford. Now that's its finally really hot out, I think they're going to start to emerge from the ground...

These zombie cicadas abdomens are missing. That space is replaced with drug-producing fungal spores. 2020 just got a whole more ridiculous.