This year will be interesting for anyone in the Midwest, especially if someone lives or will be in an area with an older trees where the soil has been undisturbed since 1990. Millions of cicadas (mistakenly called locusts) will be emerging in northern Illinois as well as parts of Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana. This is being referred to as Brood XIII. Experts have said that parts of heavily wooded areas, as many as 1.5 million cicadas per acre will crowd onto trees.
I remember these one summer when I was in high school. Although they are harmless, they always gave me the creeps. The sounds they make is this awful shrill that seems to penetrate everything else. Oh yeah, this is going to be an interesting summer for some!
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