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17-Year Cicadas...Coming to Chicago, this May!!
This is what it looks like. 
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Cicadas (17 year locusts) May 2004 in Hydes, Maryland, USA
17-Year Cicadas Ready To Make Music Again
Bugs' Anticipated Mating Calls Will Force Several Ravinia Festival Concerts Indoors
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Katie McCall
Reporting
(CBS) The last time the 17-year cicada made music in Chicago was the summer of 1990. It's a sound most do not forget easily, but wish they could. The cicadas are expected to make music again this year.
As CBS 2 North Suburban Bureau Chief Katie McCall reports, it could be the time to stock up on earplugs.
The periodical, or 17-year, cicada is an insect that emerges from the ground every 17 years to make noise, mate and lay eggs. And when the ground temperature is warm enough, in late May or early June, they will be back for a 6-week stay.
No one is happier about the bug's return than Mark Hurley, whose Cicada Mobile is a museum on wheels devoted to the beloved bug.
Story boards, specimens and costumes help kids learn the difference between the annual cicada and the red-eyed periodical.
On Hurley's tour we learned the cicada is almost as loud as a jet.
“One male can get to the decibel level of a kitchen blender -- 90 decibels,” Hurley said.
Males are the ones that make all of that noise to attract their mates, but they can also do something many human women might find funny.
“They can turn their eardrums off, so to speak, and not hear themselves,” he said.
The song of the 17-year cicada is not popular everywhere. Highland Park’s Ravinia Festival has had to move several concerts indoors because the bugs will be louder than the performers.
......Cicadas (17 year locusts) May 2004 in Hydes, Maryland, USA
17-Year Cicadas Ready To Make Music Again
Bugs' Anticipated Mating Calls Will Force Several Ravinia Festival Concerts Indoors
Get breaking news alerts
Katie McCall
Reporting
(CBS) The last time the 17-year cicada made music in Chicago was the summer of 1990. It's a sound most do not forget easily, but wish they could. The cicadas are expected to make music again this year.
As CBS 2 North Suburban Bureau Chief Katie McCall reports, it could be the time to stock up on earplugs.
The periodical, or 17-year, cicada is an insect that emerges from the ground every 17 years to make noise, mate and lay eggs. And when the ground temperature is warm enough, in late May or early June, they will be back for a 6-week stay.
No one is happier about the bug's return than Mark Hurley, whose Cicada Mobile is a museum on wheels devoted to the beloved bug.
Story boards, specimens and costumes help kids learn the difference between the annual cicada and the red-eyed periodical.
On Hurley's tour we learned the cicada is almost as loud as a jet.
“One male can get to the decibel level of a kitchen blender -- 90 decibels,” Hurley said.
Males are the ones that make all of that noise to attract their mates, but they can also do something many human women might find funny.
“They can turn their eardrums off, so to speak, and not hear themselves,” he said.
The song of the 17-year cicada is not popular everywhere. Highland Park’s Ravinia Festival has had to move several concerts indoors because the bugs will be louder than the performers.
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