Cicadas are no stranger to Wisconsin in the summer. Hearing them is often something people associate with long, warm nights outdoors. Now, imagine thousands or even millions of them all at once.
Periodical cicadas are red-eyed bugs found in the South, East and Midwest that emerge by the millions every 13 or 17 years, according to the National Wildlife Federation. The loud noise they emit ...
Gireesh. “It was a fascinating thing to watch.” The millions of cicadas last May were from two broods with a 13-year cycle. And that loud noise we heard comes from the males trying to attract ...
(NEXSTAR) – 2024 brought us “cicada-geddon,” a double awakening of two broods of periodical cicadas that swarmed much of the eastern United States over the spring and summer. The noisy ...