Illinois will be crawling with billions of cicadas very soon. If you have these two things in your backyard, you're going to be seeing more cicadas than most.
For the first time in 221 years a rare cicada emergence will take place in Illinois in 2024 with single brood emergences in Indiana & Kentucky. While you may be tempted to eat them, they could be deadly for some.
The signature of a good and hot summer in Kentucky and throughout the South is the occasional yet sometimes constant din of a brood of cicadas. I mean if it's hot, they are humming like crazy.
I don't know a more familiar sound in the late spring/summer than the drone and the buzz of cicadas. I know the weather is a lot warmer, even humid when the buzzing is there. And when the buzzing all but ceases, all that's left of the insect is a hollow shell that is very crunchy. So why is this upcoming brood so talked about?