

- Apr 1, 2021
They're Back!
There are lots of natural wonders in the Midwest. Most of them are annual events, or semiannual like the sandhill crane migration. A few are infrequent or rare. One of the most spectacular events is strangely both rare and regular in occurrence. I am referring to the emergence of periodical cicadas. Although sometimes called locusts, they are not. Locusts are short-horned grasshoppers and belong to a completely different order, the Orthoptera which have chewing mouthparts and