A cicada perches on a plant at the Morton Arboretum, Friday, May 24, 2024, in Lisle, Ill. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
A cicada perches on a plant at the Morton Arboretum, Friday, May 24, 2024, in Lisle, Ill. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
Erin HooleyThis spring, an unusual cicada double dose is about to invade a couple parts of the United States in what University of Connecticut cicada expert John Cooley called “cicada-geddon.”
In some areas, two broods are coming from the ground this spring in numbers not seen in decades or perhaps centuries.