May 24, 2007
Deformed Cicadas in La Grange
I'm a Master Gardener who teaches a night class at the Greater La Grange YMCA. Two of my Y acquaintances who live in La Grange, Illinoisnoted that they are seeing a lot of cicadas with malformed wings, as well as cicadas that emerge, come out of their skins, and die without ever flying, seeming to "turn black and dry up". The malformation they described sounds like some of the pictures on the UMMZ site- wings that are tiny and crumpled, never unfolding properly.
In fact, on my way to my car to drive home, I saw a cicada with one wing twisted in under its body walking along. It was fully dry and seemed to have nothing else wrong with it.
Comments: rwolford@uiuc.edu
Posted by Ron Wolford at 3:27 AM |
