Some are repulsed by the swarms of cicadas. But I find them miraculous: 13 to 17 years of waiting underground followed by a few weeks of passion.
A group of cicadas on leaves at the Bemis Woods Forest Preserve in Western Springs on May 28, 2007. and the Great Southern broods may result in more than a trillion of these insects rising in the backyards and parks and forest preserves of 17 states. I call it the cicada tornado. And it’s way more interesting than the total eclipse.
I remember the last Northern Illinois brood in late May 2007. I had noticed a dozen or so of the chimneys in our garden but could not imagine what was coming — the winged legions lurking below, all about to crawl out of the ground, to molt from nymphs into adults. On a bright clear day, the waves of sound from the male cicadas were deafening. The droning can reach 95 decibels, at which point audiologists suggest going indoors to avoid hearing damage. Once, while I was mowing the lawn, hundreds of them started dive-bombing me, landing on my clothing and the mower. A few days later, I realized that they were females attracted to the blare of the mower.
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