A rare blue-eyed cicada was found in Niles, Illinois: Thousands more could exist, professor says

Carole Will McDonald didn’t think she would find a blue-eyed cicada when she went looking for one in her front yard in Niles. It was a one-in-a-million shot, she understood, to find one amidst its red-eyed brethren in a sea of cicadas that have taken over the northern suburbs with their signature singing and clumsy flying. Carole Will McDonald didn’t think she would find a blue-eyed cicada when she went looking for one in her front yard in Niles. It was a one-in-a-million shot, she understood, to find one amidst its red-eyed brethren in a sea of cicadas that have taken over the northern suburbs with their signature singing and clumsy flying. Plants & Animals Ecology Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories