Laura is a science news writer, covering a wide variety of subjects, but she is particularly fascinated by all things aquatic, paleontology, nanotechnology, and exploring how science influences daily life. Laura is a proud former resident of the New Jersey shore, a competitive swimmer, and a fierce defender of the Oxford comma.
ArticleBody:Parts of the Midwest and South are gripped in the spring/summer of cicadas, cicadapocalypse, cicada-geddon–whatever you want to call this rare double-brood emergence. One family outside of Chicago is chirping with excitement after they found a cicada sporting a rare mutation. These noisy bugs normally have very distinctive red eyes, but this specimen sported blueish-gray peepers. The specimen is a female Magicicada cassini.
Daniel Le, Field Museum This rare genetic mutilation is considered a “one in a million,” occurrence. It was found in late May by four-year-old Jack Bailey from Wheaton, Illinois. “My 4-year-old son, Jack, has been in heaven since they started emerging and has taken to collecting a lot of them,” mom Greta Bailey told The Field Museum. “My daughter, Caroline, looked into his collection bucket and saw the blue-eyed one. She brought it inside and showed it to me.
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