Cicadas: Major emergence anticipated this weekend

Cicadas: Major emergence anticipated this weekend

DUPAGE COUNTY, Ill. — There have been sightings, but this weekend could be a big one in terms of the visible population of cicadas. "It's kind of the early birds to the party that are coming out now," said Jennifer Rydzewski of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County. "I think with the warm weather this weekend there's going to be a bigger emergence of a lot of them at once." In Illinois, two broods of periodical cicadas are coming out. In…

What to know about the historic cicada emergence in Chicago and Illinois

They’re loud, but they’re harmless. And some people even like to eat them. Cicadas are beginning to emerge from the ground around Chicagoland and Illinois. Two broods will converge on the state in a historic emergence. They belong to Brood XIX, four species that appear every 13 years in the Southeast, and Brood XIII, three species that appear every 17 years in northern Illinois. It will be the first time in 221 years that these two specific broo…