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Hypersexual ‘zombie’ cicadas infected with parasitic fungus being collected by scientists
Fox News via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoScientists are continuing to study the fungus Massospora cicadina on specimen of infected cicadas as...
Think cicadas are weird? Check out superfans, who eat the bugs, use them in art and even striptease
RockinghamNow.com, Eden and Reidssville· 2 days agoMayumi Barrack sees a pair of mating periodical cicadas getting together, whips out her phone, says,...
Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungus
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 day agoWith their bulging red eyes and their alien-like mating sound, periodical cicadas can seem scary and...
Don't Throw Away Cicada Carcasses in Your Yard—Use Them to Enrich Your Garden, Seriously!
Better Homes & Gardens· 4 hours agoThe cicadas are officially here for the summer—but there’s no need to fear. Every few years, cicadas...
How long will cicadas be here? You'll still have to deal with them even after they die
NBC Chicago· 10 hours agoCicadas will soon begin dying in large numbers across the Chicago area and Illinois, if they haven't...
To hear the cicadas sing, enthusiasts travel from near and far
Chicago Tribune· 13 hours agoDuring an afternoon stroll around Morton Arboretum, Maria Malayter’s Apple Watch buzzed twice with...
Illinois is hit with cicada chaos. This is what it's like to see, hear and feel billions of bugs
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 3 hours agoRIVERWOODS, Ill. (AP) — The ground had seemed to undulate at night, alive with bugs. Crawling cicada nymphs, striving to get higher after 17 years underground, marched en ...
The Rundown: What to do with all those dead cicadas
WBEZ 91.5 Chicago· 2 hours ago1. The 17-year cicadas will die out soon. Experts predict periodical cicadas will die out by the end of the month — leaving millions of dead insects across ...
Thousands of 'zombie' cicadas infected by parasitic fungus complicating SLU research
KSDK St. Louis· 9 hours agoWhat started as a handful of sightings of a parasitic fungus turning St. Louis area cicadas into...