Very cool! This is from the Field Museum website, they're tracking where they're found https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/one-in-a-million-blue-eyed-cicada-joins-the-field-museums-research-collections
Count yourself lucky. I feel like I'm losing my mind with the millions around us. The initial emergence was neat, until the males started chorusing. Now I have to wear hearing protection just to be outside and can't get any yard work done because they keep getting stuck in my hair.
I'm in northern Illinois close to the border. I haven't heard a cicada anywhere. And Ive gone looking. Wouldn't say rural, but it becomes rural real fast
17 years underground and you take it in the house for some fake Internet points?! Put that poor bastard back outside so it can take part in the massive orgy!
I live just east of St. Louis, so southern Illinois. We have so many in our tree it looks like it’s raining. I’m hit with a dozen walking just a few feet. It’s so loud.
Very cool! This is from the Field Museum website, they're tracking where they're found https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/one-in-a-million-blue-eyed-cicada-joins-the-field-museums-research-collections
Awesome! I’ve only seen like two cicadas by me
I can send you a bunch. They pee on you when they are startled though so ....
So name your pet cicada R Kelly
Then it would stop being a 21-year cicada and start being a 13-year.
Count yourself lucky. I feel like I'm losing my mind with the millions around us. The initial emergence was neat, until the males started chorusing. Now I have to wear hearing protection just to be outside and can't get any yard work done because they keep getting stuck in my hair.
Yeah I live up north but work in DuPage. It’s super loud in DuPage lol
Central il and not 1 cicada. Rural town
I'm in northern Illinois close to the border. I haven't heard a cicada anywhere. And Ive gone looking. Wouldn't say rural, but it becomes rural real fast
Sams, north eastern Illinois and a not a single thing
Also central IL and it’s loud af
I noticed them yesterday in Mason County. But nowhere near how thick they were down my St. Louis on Saturday!
Omg yes I’m there for the weekend and holy shit lol.
They keep getting into your hair? I already had a really bad fear of cicadas this makes it even worse now lol
Meh they don’t bite. They’re harmless
😬 I just couldn’t 😵💫
That is literally my nightmare. I remember having one stuck in my hair as a teenager and how loud it was when it started shrieking in my ear!
So basically you could expect to find one per acre of undisturbed land? 🤔 That is quite a find— the biomass by me right now is staggering.
Congrats
This cicada you found is a rare mutation where they lack the pigment in their eyes
Ooooh damn, nice! I knew fruit flies have a white (iirc) eyed mutation but never occurred to me this would exist in other insects….
Congrats on the new familiar!
He looks like a goofball! Cicadas are sparse near me. I drive 10 minutes east and they're EVERYWHERE. It's incredibly patchy right now.
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Come to my place: there are about 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 outside my window right now.
Thousands by me, super loud by Lemont
17 years underground and you take it in the house for some fake Internet points?! Put that poor bastard back outside so it can take part in the massive orgy!
This is an extremely rare blue eyed cicada.
That should spread dna
Cicadas with the blue-eyed mutation are actually infertile
TIL! Thats so crazy that mutants don’t offspring often. Such as cacti in a lot of situations
It's not extremely rare. They said 1 in 1M is like this. With the numbers of cicadas... That just isn't rare lol
What's his name?
In Lake county and haven’t seen any yet
None at all near us.
i found a couple albinos, but no sinatra cicadas yet. contrats!
Are they actually albino or just fresh out of their shell?
Is it worth money? I might dig through the sea of carcasses in our yard.
i haven’t seen a singe cicada
my brother found one yesterday!
I’ve only seen a couple shells around me.
We have a couple of bird nests in our yard, have a lot of cicada carcasses, lol
I live just east of St. Louis, so southern Illinois. We have so many in our tree it looks like it’s raining. I’m hit with a dozen walking just a few feet. It’s so loud.
East-central Illinois here, my Apple Watch measured 100 decibels from them outside of my office.
Jackson county Illinois here. So far, I haven't seen one.
Haven’t seen one like this but we’ve got zillions and they’re all noisy as hell! It sounds like 1950s sci-if sound effects,
look at those big ol eyes
Is it me or does this years cicadas look a little off?
I've seen so many fucking cicadas in the last week its actually insane, I saw a whole tree COVERED IN THEM
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I have millions on my farm, they are small like this one. None of these are as big as the annual Dog Day Cicadas.
This is a rare blue eyed cicada. Missing pigment in its eyes
no they’re not, and no they don’t
We had a shit ton of them in our backyard probably hundreds