For the first time in 221 years a rare cicada emergence will take place in Illinois in 2024. 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?