Emergence Report for 6/9
This should have been part 2 yesterday:
Locations
- Riverside
- Thornton Lansing Rd in Thornton, IL as well as Lansing, IL in the area of the model airplane field on Stony Island Ave.
- Old School Forest Preserve in Libertyville, IL
News
What Makes Cicadas So Loud? (The Daily Green).
Why so many deformed cicadas? and How to Dispose of Cicadas (The Chicago Gardener).
Do you hear that? Sound of cicadas here to remind us that Mother Nature’s pulling the strings (Sun-times).
Video
Collecting MadVideos — Brood XIII cicadas arrive in Wisconsin.
Cicada video (by Love is the most excellent way). See and hear them!
theVOICE - Cicadas in Oak Brook. “On this episode of theVOICE we head out to the Oak Brook Park District’s Dean residence where the 17-year cicadas have taken over. The property has been undisturbed for over 60 years and has become a perfect nesting place for the cicadas.”
Daily Nightly’s Chicago Cicadas.
Blogs
A handful of cicada photos (by ThreadStory)
More cicada photos (by Superhua)
Great pictures of seagulls swarming a suburb to get at cicadas. Plus, a picture of the coolest Christmas tree ever.
The Cicada are Coming… and coming and coming.
Invasion: Cicada on a Car Tire.
Symphony of cicadas. Now appearing in 60532.
“They’re Alive!” (by Smoldering Embers in a Mohawk Campfire who is, BTW, an excellent speller).
Precious Poodle has Cicada Mania.
Return of the Cicadas. Cool picture!
Cicada Mania typically steers clear of politics, but in the interest of being canonical: Neocons: The Cicadas of Politics .
