The male cicadas make the noise as a mating call. The noise levels can reach as high as 100 decibels, which is as loud as a jackhammer or a chainsaw. The 13-year cicadas and 17-year cicadas are identical. ©Chris Alcock/Shutterstock.com What Is a Cicada Brood? A brood is a ...
While I have seen evidence of their invasion nearly everywhere I've gone since their arrival, I have seen ZERO evidence in my own yard. Just as it was the last time we had a cicada onslaught, I haven't seen any around the house. It wouldn't be so unusual if friends of mine who ...
The worry, if you can actually call it that, is that this historical cicada emergence, the likes of which we haven't seen since Thomas Jefferson was president and Illinois wasn't even a state yet, might not be all it's been advertised to be...at least in some areas of Illinois. Cou...