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Rare blue-eyed cicada spotted during 2024 emergence at suburban Chicago arboretum
It was late morning when The Morton Arboretum's Senior Horticulturist Kate Myroup arrived at the Children’s Garden with a special guest: a rare, blue-eyed female Magicicada cassini cicada, spotted earlier in the day by a visitor. A lucky few saw the cicada Friday in Morton, Illinois, before its release back into the world in suburban Chicago to join its red-eyed relatives, the more common look for most cicada species, as the 2024 cicada emergence gets underway.As the enclosure opened, the blue-eyed lady took flight into a tree. The unique bug then flew down to land on the pants of...
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