RIVERWOODS, Ill. — The ground seemed to undulate at night, alive with bugs. Crawling cicada nymphs, striving to get higher after 17 years underground, marched en masse toward and up trees, pausing to shed their skin and emerge as adults. And then the fun began.
A pushpin map of the United States tracks where visitors to Lincoln Memorial Gardens and Nature Center come from to view cicadas Wednesday in Springfield, Ill. Some visitors are from as far away as Japan and Lithuania.
Everything you need to know about this year's emergence of two broods of cicadas
Are you ready for the 'Cicadapocalypse'? The last time this emergence happened was in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was president and busy finalizing the Louisiana Purchase.
Periodical cicadas enthusiast Roger McMullan, who is the author and illustrator of the graphic novel "Cicadapocalypse," aims to educate young, curious minds about the mysterious and fascinating insect.
More than 2 billion people eat insects on a daily basis around the world. But entomophagy, or the intentional consumption of insects as food, remains rare in the U.S.
A pushpin map of the United States tracks where visitors to Lincoln Memorial Gardens and Nature Center come from to view cicadas Wednesday in Springfield, Ill. Some visitors are from as far away as Japan and Lithuania.
